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Audio recordings

Just A Minute

A Quickie for Paul Hindemith

Yo Tannenbaum

Play the Piano Drunk... (excerpts)

Threnody (for the Victims of Insanity) (excerpts)

Variations for String Quartet (excerpts)

Ramwong Loi Krathong

Second Symphony (excerpts)

The Unquestioned Answer

Drastic Measures (excerpts)

A Full Quarter Hour

Singapore Digijam

O Christmas Tree

Printed music

Prelude to Play the piano drunk

Variations for String Quartet

The Unquestioned Answer

Photos

Personal photos 1951-1969

Personal photos 1970-1989

Personal photos 1990-2010

Personal technology 1964-2007

Personal technology today (2010)

Words

Creating String Divisi with The Garritan Personal Orchestra

Remembering Thomas Briccetti

My Favorite Films

Just A Minute (2011)

1:00

for violin and cello

Written for Zentripetal, premiered April 24, 2011, Composer's Voice Concertm New York

this version performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia

Just A Minute

A Quickie for Paul Hindemith (2010)

1:00

for orchestra (picc., flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon; 2 horns, Bb trumpet, trombone, tuba; timpani, percussion; strings)

Written for the 60x60 Orchestra Project

performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia

A Quickie For Paul Hindemith

Play the Piano Drunk... (2007-10)

62:37

Song cycle for baritone and chamber orchestra, texts by Charles Bukowski

performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia

	Song excerpts are available here.
	Prelude for flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, trumpet, tuba, 2 pianos (4 players), Rhodes electric piano, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, marimba, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, plus ad libitum Latin percussion (rain tree, suspended cymbal, woodblocks, shaker congas)
	Prelude full score (A3 size)
	Fugue (Fingers Begin to Bleed)

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Yo Tannenbaum! (2009)

5:10

Yo Tannenbaum! for 4 Hammond organs, 3 Rhodes electric pianos, maracas, shaker, violin, viola

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Threnody for the Victims of Insanity (2006-7)

27:30

Ballet suite for chamber orchestra, electronic score, baritone solo, chorus

performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia

	Excerpt
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5 (Jeremiah)
	6

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Variations for String Quartet (2005-6)

28:40

		Introduction - Variation 1
		Variation 2
		Variation 4
		Variation 6
		Variation 9
		Variation 11

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Ramwong Loi Krathong (1987-2005)

3:23

arranged by John Charles Melcher

performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia

Click here to read about this Thai festival and hear a traditional arrangement of the song.

	MP3 (3.1 MB)
	Program notes

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Second Symphony (1997-2005)

37:00

for orchestra

performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia

		I. Excerpt 1
		I. Excerpt 2
		I. Excerpt 3
		II. Excerpt
		III. Excerpt

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The Unquestioned Answer (2004)

6:51

for jazz ensemble (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, trumpet, eectric guitar, electric bass guitar, drums)

performed by The Lomluka Foni Sinfonia Players

	MP3 (3.4M)
	Score
	Program notes

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Drastic Measures (1977-2003)

47:47

an electric symphony

		I. (excerpts)
		II. (excerpts)
		III. (excerpts)
		IV. (excerpts)
		Program notes

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A Full Quarter Hour (1981-2004)

16:09

		MP3 (11M)
		Program notes

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Singapore Digijam 2002-2004)

5:32

for drums, synthesizers, guitars and sounds

inspired by an impromptu jam session at the Digidesign booth at Broadcast Asia.

	MP3 (3.8M)
	Program notes

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O Christmas Tree (1972, rev. 2003-5)

8:15

for clarinet/bass clarinet, Bb trumpet, harp, piano, violin

Elliot Carter once said, "You can't write music that way!", but he was wrong! Listen and learn why.

	MP3 file (5.6M)
	Program notes

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