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Mavra

Arrangement of Igor Stravinsky’s 1922 opera

For soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, and tenor

Instrumentation of arrangement:

     flute (doubling piccolo)

     clarinet in E flat (doubling clarinets in B flat and A)

     clarinet in A (doubling bass clarinet)

     piano

     violin

     double bass

25 minutes

Published in 2010 by Boosey and Hawkes

Performed at Glyndebourne in 2010

Battle-Pieces

Newest composition, completed in 2011

Song cycle for baritone and orchestra; also available for baritone and piano

Settings of Herman Melville’s Civil War poems, published in 1866 as Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Six songs: 1. A Reverie, 2. The Night Fight, 3. Misgivings, 4. In the Prison Pen, 5. Magnanimity Baffled, 6. Nobler Worlds

Instrumentation: 2+1 2+1 2+1 2+1 - 3 3 3 1  timp  3perc  hp  strings

19 minutes

Published by Barnard Street Music (ASCAP)

AUDIO

PREMIERES OF THE COMPLETE CYCLE

Andrew Garland, baritone, with the Pioneer Valley Symphony

Sunday, 16 October 2011 at John M. Greene Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Rene de la Garza, baritone, with the Brown University Orchestra

Friday, 21 October, and Saturday, 22 October 2011 at Sayles Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI

All performances conducted by the composer.

Nobler Worlds

Andrew Garland, baritone

Paul Phillips, piano

In the Prison Pen

Andrew Garland, baritone

Paul Phillips, piano

A Reverie

Kyle Ferrill, baritone

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra

Kirk Trevor, conductor

Other Works

CONCERT PIECES

ORCHESTRA

   Brownian Motion (full orchestra)

   Come On Out and Play [text: Bill Harley] (singer-narrator and orchestra)

   Celestial Harmonies (string orchestra)

   Black Notes and White (brass, percussion, organ)

   Go Perfect Into Peace (chamber orchestra)

   War Music Suite (for soprano, baritone and chamber orchestra)

CHAMBER MUSIC

   Quintet for Assorted Wind Instruments (flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, bassoon)

   Trio for Strings (violin, viola, cello)

   Movement for Violin and Violoncello

   A/B: A 90th Birthday Celebration of Anthony Burgess in Words and Music [text: Anthony Burgess and Paul Phillips]

       (actor, string quartet, harmonica/percussion, piano/percussion)

KEYBOARD

   Dorian Bagatelle (piano solo)

   For Pamela R. (piano, 4 hands)

   Nantucket Rag (piano solo)

CHORAL

   Three Burgess Lyrics [text: Anthony Burgess] (chorus, solo vln, pf)

SONGS

   The Dark Hills [text: Edwin Arlington Robinson] (voice and piano)

   Nightsongs [text: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Emily Dickinson, James Agee]

      (soprano, flute, viola, bassoon)

   Miracle Songs [text: (voice and piano)

   Invocation [text: Rumi] (soprano, flute, piano)

WORKS FOR THEATRE, FILM and TELEVISION

   Pericles • incidental music for Shakespeare play

   Moonchildren • incidental music for Michael Weller play

   The Parting • score for film directed by Barbara Olsen

   Parents Magazine • music for television commercial

   Dorothy's Adventures in the Land of Oz • musical based on play by Baaken and de Montléart after Baum

   Mann ist Mann • incidental music for play by Bertolt Brecht

   War Music • musical theatre work based on Christopher Logue’ s War Music and other poetical writings

ARRANGEMENTS

  Turpin • The Harlem Rag (for chamber orchestra

   Mercer • The Sweetheart Tree (for string orchestra)

   Gershwin • Someone to Watch Over Me (for string orchestra)

   Harley • You’re in Trouble (for orchestra)

   Harley • There's a Pea on my Plate (for orchestra)

   Phillips • Go Perfect Into Peace (for chamber orchestra; arrangement of “Sleep and Dreams” from Miracle Songs)

   Burgess • Prelude and Fugue in B flat major from The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard (for string quartet)

All works, unless otherwise indicated, are published by BARNARD STREET MUSIC

barnardstreetmusic@verizon.net

Misgivings

Rene de la Garza, baritone

Paul Phillips, piano