I composed intermittently, for many years. Now I’m doing it fullfime. Late in my life, so why have grand ambition? I’ll write music I love, and work with people I enjoy.
Some of my work:
Three Quartets — the recording of my string quartets, played by the Naumburg-winning Terra String Quartet, on the Acis label. Full release coming soon.
Quartet for Anne (also on streaming services; played on classical radio)
The Remembered Song (link coming)
Mahler Variations (link coming)
Recital, my latest, almost completed — an entire vocal recital for soprano and piano, with my versions of music singers traditionally sing. Old Italian arias, German lieder, French art songs, and much more.
Cooperation — string trio, eight minutes long, playful and passionate, in which the musicians (this is intricate!) create each musical gesture by cooperating.
Older pieces:
Weegee Photos — dark, wild, sometimes tender, for piano. Based on 1940s tabloid images.
Frankenstein — a full-length opera, in the manner of Bellini or early Verdi, but contemporary. Dramatic, tragic, operatic to the hilt, with high notes and sweeping melodies.
Hear a quintet from this — pure Italian opera, even if it’s modern and in English (with full orchestra, from a New York City Opera workshop)
My Strathmore concert — a full program of my music, at the Mansion at Strathmore, in 2016. Videos, of songs, string quartets, vocal and instrumental pieces. Watch individually, or watch the whole thing, including my comments to the audience.
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano — E flat and B flat clarinets. In the first two movements, clarinet and piano play blended but separate pieces, then join in a unison rush in the third.
Performance by Charles Neidich and Jenny Lin, on the Cutting Edge concert series in New York.
More coming!
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