Commissioned by the University of Michigan Music Department and Joseph Gramley for the duo Organized Rhythm: Joseph Gramley, marimba and Clive Driskill-Smith, organ.
There are three sections in this piece that merge into each other. They are titled, “an ethereal bright light”, “converge and accelerate”, and, “gliding to infinity”.
Aria (2013)
Aria is lifted from a larger work, an opera-in-progress, called Fordlandia, about the struggle for succession of power between Henry and his son Edsel at the Ford Motor Company. Evangeline, the secretary and mistress of Henry Ford, sings the aria. In this five-part work for violin and piano, we hear Evangeline’s Aria, an expression of love and triumph, at the end in the fifth and final section. The four sections that lead up to the finale imagine a dialogue and interaction about their complicated relationship.
Quiet Rhythms - Book III (2012)
Clear Light (2011)
Quiet Rhythms - Book II (2010)
Amores Montuños (2008)
Zydeco Madness for accordion (2006)
Native New Yorker (2005)
Duo Montuño (2004)
Instrumentation: alto sax and piano (7:00)
Piano Montuño (2004)
Instrumentation: piano (6:00)
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Marimba Montuño (2002)
Motions of Return (1996)
Instrumentation: flute and piano (9:00)
First Performance: San Francisco, Old First Church, 1996
Commissioned by Xanaduo, Esther Landau, flute and Lee Nolan, piano.
Uprising (1988)
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings. (11:00)
based on the piano work of the same name.