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| Paka`a Lanakila! (2011) 30 min. ca. for narrator and wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon) First Performances (coming up): October 3 & 10, 2011
Chamber Music Hawaii's "Spring Wind Quintet" (Marsha Schweitzer, basson; Jonathan Parrish, horn; James Moffitt, clarinet; Scott Janusch, oboe; with guest Claire Butin, flute; and composer as narrator) Paliku Theater & Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu, Hawaii Commissioned with generous funding from the Honolulu Mayor's Office on Culture and the Arts, "Paka`a Lanakila!" was written for audiences young and young-at-heart. With words and music, it tells the heart-warming story of Paka`a, a young boy of ali`i lineage, growing up on Kaua`i without his own blood father, and trying to get out in the world and make something of himself. Themes of love, respect, courage, rejection, acceptance, family, and community resonate in this wind-themed story (which ends with a canoe race against all odds). |
| Outta
This World (unplugged) (1998/2010)
13 min. for string quartet, amplified or acoustic First Performance:
May 8, 2010
ETHEL (Cornelius Dufallo and Mary Rowell, violins; Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, 'cello) Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Laguardia Performing Arts Center Queens, New York Premiere performance composer activities funded in part by Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program and an American Composers Forum ENCORE program award. |
| Two Dances from "Dances Ebb, Dances Flow" (2007) 13 min. ca. Messiaen quartet (violin, 'cello, clarinet and piano) First Performance:
February 14, 2007
New York New Music Ensemble (Linda Quan, vln; Christopher Finckel,'vcl; Jean Kopperud, cl; Stephen Gosling, pno) Duncan Recital Hall, Shepherd School of Music Rice University Houston, Texas In memoriam Patricia Hagan |
| Dances
Ebb, Dances Flow (2006) 22 min. ca. Messiaen quartet (violin, 'cello, clarinet and piano) First Performance:
December 5, 2007
Ebb and Flow Arts Ensemble (Iggy Jang, vln; Joanna Morrison, vcl; Scott Anderson, cl; Robert Pollock, pno) Atherton Studio Hawai`i Public Radio Honolulu, HI In memoriam Patricia Hagan [Excerpt of Mvt. 2 from Ebb and Flow Arts Ensemble's live premiere performance] [score-pdf] [note-pdf] |
| Ko`olau
Sketches (2001) 13 min. marimba quartet (two 4 1/3, one 5, one 5 1/3, and crotales) First Performance:
October 17, 2001
New York Percussion Quartet (Benny Koonyevsky, Joseph Perreira, David Rozenblatt, Pablo Rieppi) Wolfensohn Hall Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey For Benny, David, Joe and Pablo [Audio - excerpt from NYPQ's live performance] [score-pdf] [note-pdf] |
| Outta
This World (1998)
13 min. for amplified string quartet, sound effects processor First Performance:
May 27, 1998
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble Second Helpings Series DIA Center for the Arts New York, New York Commissioned by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble with funding from the Jerome Foundation. [Outta This World.mp3] |
| Fore! (1996/rev.
2000) 6 min. for 2 horns in f, in and outside a performance space First Performance:
November 8, 1996
John Smith and Julia Pilant, horns Paul Hall, The Juilliard School New York, New York For John Smith and Julia Pilant [score-pdf] |
| Full
Circle (1995) for choreography by Natalie
Desch 6 min. for 2 pianos /4 hands First Performance:
January 18, 1995
Ilgin Aka and Orla McDonagh, pianos Wednesdays at One Series Alice Tully Hall New York, New York For Natalie Desch, choreographer [Audio - excerpt of performance by Ilgin and Orla] |
| Altered
Path (1994) for choreography by Franck Baranek
7 min. for soprano, 2 perc, pno, 3 vcl First Performance:
January 18, 1994
Clemence Gegauff, soprano Members of the Juilliard Orchestra Jon Magnussen, conductor Wednesdays at One Series Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center New York, New York For Frank Baranek, choreographer [Audio - world premiere performance] [score-pdf] |
(18 July 2008)