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Eight Riddles

July 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Eight Riddles

I had forgotten about these, and rediscovered them while going through some old papers. Eight riddles are set diatonically, traveling through the circle of fifths. My notes said that I planned to double them with violin. That might be nice.

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The Elephant Calf

July 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on The Elephant Calf

Back when I was a composition student at Oberlin Conservatory, I wrote some songs and incidental music for a puppet production of Brecht’s one-act The Elephant Calf. The score was ebullient and dissonant, with cartoonish cues, and a few mocking quotations (B-A-C-H and a scrap of Mahler). It was performed in May 1973. The puppets […]

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Election Day

June 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on Election Day

A round on a trenchant scrap of Yeats. Hear, hear!  

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