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A Grim Reckoning

June 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment

“A Grim Reckoning” is one of my more gothic offerings. It began its life as incidental organ music for “Misguiding Lights,” a dance/theater piece by Pam Quinn and Michael O’Connor. I reworked it for viola and electronic organ, and performed it on the “No Soap Radio” series at Dance Theater Workshop, in NYC, in 1996, […]

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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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Dirgette

June 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Dirgette

A funereal snippet, to illustrate a point of physical comedy in a performance with Bill Irwin, at the Walter Reade Theater (NYC) in 1999.

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Buenas Noches, Little Roaches

June 14th, 2011 · 6 Comments

I’ve often performed this song on the ukulele. I recorded it with an obbligato for baritone uke; in performance, David Gold has joined me on viola. Here’s how it begins:

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Circulation

June 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Circulation

A brief crab canon. I notated it in the style of a baroque puzzle canon; that saves ink.

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