VOICE(S) AND INSTRUMENT(S)
Again, cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
(originally titled Template series one)
2 Sopranos, 2 Fl, 2 Tbn, 2 Perc, 2 Db,
Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound, amplification, optional lighting
Blind Men (1966) 16'
24-voice Mixed Chorus, Chamber Ensemble
3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 2 Perc, Pf
Text extracted from Journal up the Straights by Herman Melville
First performance: 15 August 1966
Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox
Tanglewood Choir, Iva Dee Hiatt, Conductor
Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation
EP06826
Compass (1972-73) 30'
Tenor, Bass, Vc, Db, Quadraphonic electroacoustic sound,
35mm slide projections
Text on the poem by Jorge Luis Borges
First performance: 7 March 1974
Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
Howard Crook, Tenor, Philip Larson, Bass,
Peter Farrell, Cello, Bertram Turetzky, Double Bass
Commissioned by the Judith S. Stark Foundation
EP66250
The Emperor of Ice Cream, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER
(Staged) 8 Voices, Perc, Pf, Db
ILLUSION, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER
2 Actors, Baritone, High Soprano
Solo Picc, Solo Cl, Solo Vc, Chamber Ensemble,
8-channel computer processed sound, Staging
JUSTICE, cf. MUSIC FOR THEATER
Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Real-time computer sound spatialization,
Computer processed sound, Staging
I/O: A Ritual for 23 Performers, cf. MULTIMEDIA
(Staged) 9 Female Vocalists, 9 Male Mimes, 2 Fl, Cl,
2 Technician/Performers, live electronic processing, projections
last things, I think, to think about (1994) 66'
Bass-Baritone, Piano, Stereophonic
computer processed sound, optional 35mm slide projections of text
Text: several poems of John Ashbery
I. I Had Thought, II. The Painter, III. Sonnet,
IV. At North Farm, V. Landscape, VI. Faust,
VII. Hotel Lautréamont, VIII. Myrtle,
IX. Illustration (I and II), and Debit Night,
a poem commissioned for this composition
and recorded by Mr. Ashbery
[The following can be performed out of context:
Sonnet, At North Farm, Faust, Myrtle,
Illustration I, Illustration II.]
First performance: 17 November 1994
Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, New York
Philip Larson, Bass-Baritone, Aleck Karis, Piano
Commissioned by the Meet The Composer/
Reader's Digest Commission Program
EP67620
Masks, cf. ORCHESTRA
8-part Mixed Chorus, Orchestra
A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC
Music theater for three vocalists, Electroacoustic sound
Not Only Night (1988) 10'
Soprano, Fl (Picc), Cl Eb (B-cl), Pf, Vl, Vc,
Stereophonic computer processed sound
Text: O. E. Hartleben's translations from Pierrot Lunaire
by Albert Giraud of Abend, and Morgen
First performance: 7 November 1988
Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
New York New Music Ensemble, Christine Schadeberg, Soprano,
Robert Black, Conductor
Commissioned by the Schoenberg Institute
EP67266
Odyssey, cf. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
(originally titled Entre le galet et la dune)
Mezzo-Soprano, Bass-Baritone, Ensemble (16 players),
8 channels (4 + 4) of computer processed sound, lighting
The Palace [Voicespace IV] (1978-80) 16'
Bass-Baritone, Quadraphonic
computer processed sound, modest staging
Text: poem The Palace of Jorge Luis Borges
First performance: 28 February 1981
Contemporary Music Festival 1981, CalArts, Los Angeles
Philip Larson, Bass-Baritone
National Endowment for the Arts Award
EP66856
A Portrait of Vanzetti (1962-63) 21'
Narrator, 2 Fl (2 Picc), Cl, 2 Hn, Tpt, Tbn, 2 Perc,
Stereophonic electroacoustic sound
Text edited by the composer from the letters of Bartolomeo Vanzetti
First performance: 16 February 1963
ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor
Jack O'Brien, Narrator, Donald Scavarda, Conductor
The Red Act Arias, cf. ORCHESTRA
Orchestra, Chorus, Narrator, Computer processed and spatialized
vocal, instrumental, and environmental sound
Sketchbook (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being), cf. SOLO
Low female voice accompanying herself at the piano,
electronic processing
Submerged Memories (2006) 20'
Narrator, B-cl, Vln, Elect Gtr, Perc,
Electroacoustic processing, Visual projections
Text: from W. G. Sebald's Vertigo and The Rings of Saturn as translated from the German by Michael Hulse
Visual projections: Leonardo de Vinci's The Annuciation and Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci
and Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson
First performance: 31 March 2006
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band with Tenor/Narrator John Duykers
Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation
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