CDs

Compact Discs

Farewell to Music (2021). Albany/Troy 1879.

A decade’s worth of music composed for Riley Lee, performed by Riley and joined in some tracks by guitarist Charles MacDonald and Barbara White’s clarinet. Sample track (video version): Buddha Smiles on East 23rd. A purchase of the hard copy includes the liner notes and supports the label, Albany Records, who continue to devote themselves to the support of new American music among the challenges of the streaming era.

Weakness | Macha (2013).  Albany/Troy 1441.

An operatic  retelling of the story of “The Curse of Macha,” paired with by Tom Cowan’s spoken-word version of the story.  More information.

My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon (2011).  Albany/Troy 1303.

Four chamber works composed between 2003 and 2008.  Performers include Sabrina Learman, soprano; Tara Helen O’Connor and Deborah Boldin, flutes; Alan Kay, clarinet; Laura Frautschi and Jennifer Frautschi, violins; Daniel Panner, viola; Sophie Shao, cello; and John Blacklow, piano. Liner notes by Eric Moe.

Apocryphal Stories (2004). Albany/Troy 626.

Four chamber works composed between 1999 and 2002: “During these years, I became increasingly preoccupied by the relationship between pre-existing music and my own compositional designs. Most of my works are haunted, if subtly, by my collected musical experiences, and in this series of four works, I chose to engage deliberately and explicitly with my musical memories, creating new artifacts out of excavation, appropriation, and commentary. The apocryphal story is an apt metaphor for this working process, not because the authorship or veracity of the final product is in doubt, but rather, because the constant recycling of spurious legends recalls the transmission of musical ‘fictions’ from one generation to the next, and the ways in which, over time, familiar tropes and forms take on new guises.”

Performed by Geoffrey Burleson, piano; Joanna Kurkowicz and Joseph Lin, violins; Larry Passin, clarinet; Nancy Zeltsman, marimba; and the New Millennium Ensemble.  Liner notes by Barbara White and Geoffrey Burleson.

When the Smoke Clears (2002).  CRI 893/NWCR893.  Also available at DRAM.

Five chamber works composed between 1995 and 1998.  Performances by Barbara White, clarinet; Michael Lowenstern, clarinet; Anna Lim, violin; Nancy Zeltsman, marimba; Mary Nessinger, mezzo soprano with the New York New Music Ensemble; and the Talujon Percussion Quartet.

Individual Works

Repeat After Me (formerly Repetition Compulsion), performed by Sqwonk:

The Sqwonk bass clarinet duo’s third album, Sqwonk + (2014): recent compositions and arrangements by living American composers in collaboration with six other ensembles.  With Rootstock percussion.

Before I was released I was in many things, on American Works for Violin and Piano, by Jennifer Frautschi, violin; and John Blacklow, piano.  Albany/Troy 1593.

Three works on Dominic Donato’s CD, Music For Tamtams II.  Three works for tamtam and recorded sound, all composed for Dominic Donato.  Available at cdbaby, Amazon, and iTunes.

Mountains and Rivers

Tiger Noodles Motivates Princeton Junior Faculty

In Search of the Celestial Teapot