Greg Sandow’s music
[This page is under construction]
All scores are in PDF formatSolo PiecesShort Talks (piano; the
pianist also plays a small drum; in progress, 2008 - ) These
are short piano pieces, settings of prose poems by Anne Carson, whose searing
intensity is burned into very few words. The pianist plays both the piano and
a small drum. Eventually there should be eight or more of these; right now
there are five. Jenny Lin will premiere the cycle when it’s finished. The
music might seem calm (deceptively), but it bursts into violence, and
sometimes falls silent, unable to speak. The drum is its underworld. scores all five Short Talks
that I’ve written so far recordings: live performance at Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, Symphony Space, New York, April 6, 2009 Jenny
Lin, piano and drum Short
Talk On Gertrude Stein About 9:30; Short Talk On Defloration; Short Talk on
Ovid; Short Talk On Rain; Short Talk On Rectification computer
demos: Short Talk On Gertrude Stein
About 9:30 Organ Piece [no title yet, 2007] This
is a rewrite of—or maybe variations on—the C major fugue in the second book
of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. It’s more than a little crazy, with (in places) double Bach’s counterpoint, and
big gaudy cadences. Listen and see. Chamber musicQuartet for Anne (string quartet, 2001) performance by the Fine
Arts Quartet (a radio broadcast, with commentary) see a special
web page for this piece. I wrote this quartet as a birthday present for
my wife — and I brought musicians to our home to surprise her with it
recordings: live performance at Bowling Green State University, 2006 Kevin Schempf, E flat and B flat
clarinets live performance at Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, Symphony Space, New York, April 6, 2009 Charles Neidich, E flat and B flat clarinets
(I tweaked the score and part on 11/24/08. If you have earlier versions, please replace them with these. The new versions have more explicit performance directions, especially about the balance between the two parts.) (Coming soon: a live performance recording) Orchestra A Frankenstein Overture (1998)
live
performance (Dakota Chamber Orchestra, April 22, 2007; Delta David Gier,
conductor): 2 Ballad 4 Finale computer demo: 2 Ballad 4 Finale Note: since making this recording, I’ve made
small revisions in the score. So there are tiny, maybe all but imperceptible
differences in the last movement between what you’ll hear, and what’s written
in the score. Mostly they’re about switches from bowed playing in the strings
to pizzicato.
I gave the players a little more time. VocalShakespeare Songs (2005) live performance at Bowling Green State University, October 2006: Ann Corrigan, soprano 1 If to doe were as easie
as to know what were good to doe 3 But I do thinke it is
their Husbands faults if Wiues do fall 4 How all the other passions fleet to Ayre 5 Giue me my Robe, put on my Crowne computer demo (all five songs) OperaFrankenstein (1981) Opera in three acts, written in the full-blooded operatic style of the 19th century. Libretto by Thomas M. Disch. Full orchestra. scores recording of a workshop performance with piano: Victor Frankenstein: Allan Glassman; Elizabeth: Carolyn Mallory; Henry: John Absalom; The Creature: Robert Stephens; Victor’s Father/Philip: Joseph Warner; Charlotte: Cheryl Littell; Lars: Richard Nickell chorus of the C. W. Post College Summer Opera Workshop music director and pianist: Ralph Zitterbart There’s a special page about Frankenstein here.
For information not on that page, including availability of the complete
score, please contact me. The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness (1975) One-act comedy, in a pop/Broadway style, a setting of a play by Robert Patrick. Piano accompaniment. scores original version (two sopranos, two tenors) quartet version (two sopranos, tenor, female quartet) duet version (two sopranos, tenor, female duet) recording (live performance with the original cast) Richest Girl: Stephanie Costirilos; Handsomest Movie Star: Michael Hume; Madalayna: Gail Johnston; A Singer: Charlie Liepart music director and pianist: Greg Sandow
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