OPERA and MUSIC THEATER

ORCHESTRAL

• REGARDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066
  Words and Music
  about the internment
  of 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry,
  many of them American citizens,
  by the United States Government during WWII,
  for Mezzo Soprano, Narrator and Orchestra.
  --premiered 6/18/05 by the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony
  --at the San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Center
  --conducted by Kent Nagano
  --Jackie Kreitzer, mezzo soprano
  --Andy Harp, narrator
  
  I. Introduction
  II. Smoke Rises
  III. I Saw a Home Movie
  IV. What We Could Not Carry
  V.i What Do You Do When Your World is Taken Away
  V.ii What Do Children Do in Jail?
  VI. Beautiful Dreamer
  VII. Afterword
  
  
• AGAIN, LAST NIGHT, I DREAMT OF THE OCEAN
  for Strings and Amplified Whistler
  --premiered by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Edwin London, conductor, 1984
  
  

CHAMBER MUSIC

• MUSIC FOR STEEL DRUMS AND RESONATOR GUITAR
  --premiered by GE and Patty Dee
  --8/31/07
  
  
• THREE MINIATURES FOR PAN AND CHARANGO
  --premiered by GE and Patty Dee
  ---8/31/07
  
  
• SONATINA
  for Flute and Electronic Soundtrack
  --premiered by flautist, Fred Lau, 1992
  
  
• SONATINA
  for Marimba, Electronic Reverb, and Soundtrack
  --premiered by percussionist, Doug Ovens, 1995
  
  
• AVILA
  for guitar, harp, percussion and electronics
  --for John Schneider and Just Strings
  --premiered at Microfest 2000, LA
  
  
• AFTERNOON MUSIC
  for cello and piano
  --for Nancy Nagano and Kiyomi Kato
  --performed by them in LA, Kyoto, Japan and Atherton, CA
  --Summer and Fall, '01.
  
  
• THREE OBJECTS AND AN ANIMATION
  for Piano Solo
  --1978
  --for pianist Arlene Dunlap
  
  

MUSIC FOR GLASS INSTRUMENTS

• QUINTET FOR GLASS AND STRINGS
  for Glass Armonica and String Quartet
  --for Dennis James
  --commissioned by the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival
  --first performance- Summer of '98 at the SLO Moz. Fest.
  --recorded in Fall of '99 by Dennis James and the Emerson String Quartet for Sony Classical
  
  
• VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY BEETHOVEN
  for glass armonica solo
  --for Dennis James
  --first performed at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  --3/7/99
  
  
• PAVANE- Chamber version of Gabriel Faure's PAVANE
  --arranged by GE
  --for Soprano, Baschet Cristal, Female Chamber Chorus
  --fl., ob., cl. in A, 2 vln., vla., vlc., CB
  --for the Dennis James/Linda Ronstadt Glass Album
  --recorded at Capitol Records Studio A on 1/27/00
  
  
• FOR SERAPHIM ALONE
  --for solo glass instrument (verrophone, armonica, glass harp, seraphim or table glasses)
  --completed 1999
  
  
• DER LEIERMANN/WHAT THE LEIERMANN PLAYED
  --an arrangement of Franz Schubert's "Der Leiermann" paired with
  --GE's fantasia on what the Leiermann might have played
  --for glass (verrophone, armonica, glass harp, seraphim or table glasses)
  --and steel-string guitar, preferably a resonator.
  --composed for Philipp Marguerre, 6/1/08
  
  

GUITAR MUSIC

SONGS

• FOLK PEOPLE
  four songs for male voice and resonator guitar in just intonation
  1. The Lark in the Morning (arranged)
  2. The Railroad Man
  3. The Hearty Bounty
  4. The Prisoner
  --premiered by GE on 1/19/08
  --at the Steynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo
  
  

CHORAL

• OMNES POPULI
  Cantata for Soloists (SATB) Chorus, Female Chorus, Orchestra (minus winds)
  --commissioned and premiered by The Cuesta Master Chorale, Tom Davies, conductor, 1996
  --soloists: Mary Rawcliffe, soprano; Susan Davies, alto; Jonathon Mack, tenor; Kenneth Knight, bass
  

  I. Omnes Populi- Processional
  II. Cantate Domino
  III. I Hear Singing
  IV. Aria and Hymn
  
  

• MISSA BREVIS
  for unaccompanied chorus
  --composed for the PolyPhonics of California State Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo, Tom Davies, conductor, for their Spring Tour, 1998.
  
  

MUSIC FOR VOICES and ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS

• MESA/PACIFIC
  for Soprano, Alto, Bass, Percussion, Electric Piano and Electronics
  --commissioned by Kit Tremaine and performed by Daniel Lentz's ensemble, European Tour, 1976
  
  
• THE SHORT MAN
  a Cycle of Songs for Tenor and Magnetic Tape
  --performed by Garry Eister at the Electric Mountain Music Festival in Riverton, WY, Linnea's Coffee Shop in San Luis Obispo, CA and broadcast on KCBX-SLO, KPFK-LA, KPFA-Berkeley
  
  
• THREE SACRED SONGS
  a studio song for Baritone and electronic instruments
  --first recorded by Hector Vasquez for"The Pictures In My Head Radio Theater"
  
  
• LULLABY
  a studio song for Soprano and electronic instruments
  --first recorded by Kathy Barata for "The Pictures In My Head Radio Theater"
  
  
• ...AND UPON HER HEAD A CROWN OF TWELVE STARS
  four studio songs for Soprano and electronic instruments
  -- recorded by Kathy Barata

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