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MUSIC FOR REEDS
| NAME OF WORK | DESCRIPTION | DATE COMPOSED | LENGTH |
INSTR. |
PERFORMANCE(S) |
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| Goin' Home | chamber duo with klezmer and other unexpected influences | November 1996 | 7 min. | for clarinet and piano | unperformed |
| EAR Exposition, Development & Recapitulation | 3 detachable movements deconstructing sonata form---is it valid?---Exposition establishes motives a and b in multiple configurations; Development encourages the players to improvise on these ideas; Recapitulation restates and wraps up with a bang. | 1999 | 10 min. | for the California EAR Unit: flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, 2 keyboards (piano and sampler using processed dialogue by EAR members), marimba and drum set. | Los Angeles County Museum, October 13, 1999. |
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Your Mad Mad Love, In The Eye Of The Storm |
2 chamber rock songs | 1996 |
3 min. 7 min. |
for Randall Woolf's CAMP: rock voice, trumpet, bass clarinet, organ, electric guitar, bass and drums | Context Studio, August 1996, |
| Called Out Ol' Texas | comprov duet for 'cello and alto saxophone | 1994 | 8 min. | 'cello and alto saxophone | Roulette, December 1994. |
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Love, I Know Beyond A Doubt |
Motet including text and melodies from traditional & Occitans chants and a monophonic chanson roial from the"Remede de Fortune" by Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1365), in memory of Professor Peter Gram Swing. | 1997 | 14 min. | for SATB chamber choir, 5 soloists & jazz quartet: tenor saxophone, piano, double bass and drums | unperformed |
| Getting In & Out Of Trouble | Rondo of ostinati for jazz orchestra, commissioned by the Charles Fox Fund of the Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia. Premiered by LaGuardia High School of Music & Art Junior Jazz & Pit Orchestra combined under the direction of Bob Stewart. | 1999 | 10 min | 3 fl., 5 cl. (b. cl. & Eb), saxophones: 3 altos, 2 tenors, 1 baritone; 4 tpts, fr. hn., 3 tbns., tb., pno., (gtr. optional), 4 pc. (drumkit, agogo, whistle, gong, chocallo/rainstick, 3 tmp., conga, timbales, marimba), 2-8 violins, 2-6 cellos, amplified bass. | LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts, May 6 1999. |
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Song for Todd, Walkin' On My Beat, Green Onions In The Field, Go No Further |
Compositions for DADADAH. Song for Todd and Green Onions... use untexted voice while Walkin'... and Go... have lyrics. Walkin'... is the longest containing a long interlude called My Mexico duo for cello & bass with brass, harp and drum incursions. | 1998 | 5-10 min. | for Brazelton's nine-piece electro-acoustic ensemble DADADAH: voice, alto sax, horn, trombone, harp, cello, electric guitar, electric bass, drums & percussion | CB's Lounge, CBGB's, New York City, November 1997-July 1998 monthly residency. |
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Open the Window (& Look Out), Soul Kiss, U'r N Love N U Dono Y, Thing Of Beauty, Around You, Waitin' For Ya Baby, Sex Wind Dream, Cinderella's Sister you can hear Cinderella's Sister at http://www.arcananet.org/newmusicradio choose Joe Pehrson's 5/15/98 interview with Kitty Brazelton |
Songs for DADADAH recorded Sept. 1-3, 1995. Released on CD "Love Not Love Lust Not Lust" 1999. | 1995 | 3-12 min. each | for DADADAH: voice, French horn, harp, trombone, alto saxophone, flute, cello, electric guitar and electric bass, drums. | Knitting Factory, NYC, August 29-31; |
| From Her Story | Autobiographical musical narrative recorded by DADADAH, Labor Day, 1995. Released on CD "Love Not Love Lust Not Lust" 1999. | 1993 | 26 min. | for DADADAH: voice, French horn, harp, trombone, alto or tenor saxophone, flute or soprano saxophone, cello, electric guitar and electric bass, drums. | The Nuyorican Poets Cafe for International Women's Month, March 1993 |
| Rise Up | Song and instrumental suite containing the traditional blues, House Of The Rising Sun, revisited.Recorded and nationally released on DADADAH CD "Rise Up!" (Accurate/Distortion Records, May 1994. Nationally reviewed.) | September 1991 | 14 min. | for DADADAH: voice, French horn, harp, trombone, alto saxophone, flute, cello, electric guitar and electric bass, drums. | The Knitting Factory, The Firewall Festival, Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, P.S. 122, NYC, 1990-91. |
| Snow White Rose Red | Premiered by DADADAH at the Knitting Factory, The Firewall Festival, Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, P.S. 122, NYC, 1990-91. Recorded and nationally released on DADADAH CD "Rise Up!" | 1991 (1981) | 9 min. | for DADADAH: voice, French horn, harp, trombone, alto saxophone, flute, cello, electric guitar and electric bass, drums. | The Knitting Factory, The Firewall Festival, Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, P.S. 122, NYC, 1990-91. |
| The Night Is Mine | Anti-war protest. Recorded and nationally released on DADADAH CD "Rise Up!" | 1991 | 7 min. | for DADADAH: voice, French horn, harp, trombone, 2 flutes (possible alt. soprano sax), alto saxophone, cello, electric guitar and electric bass, drums. | The Knitting Factory, etc., NYC, 1990-91. |
| Don't Look Back | Exploded song form with fugue. Recorded and nationally released on DADADAH CD "Rise Up!" | 1991 | 5 min. | for DADADAH | The Knitting Factory, etc., NYC, 1990-91. |
| Little Gamelan Da | Gamelan influenced song. Recorded and nationally released on DADADAH CD "Rise Up!" | 1991 | 5 min. | for DADADAH | The Knitting Factory, etc., NYC, 1990-91. |
| Dance Suite | 5 symphonic movements re-interpreted in the modern idiom originally commissioned by choreographer Rebecca Romero. Recorded and nationally released on DADADAH CD "Rise Up!" | 1990 | 26 min. | for DADADAH: voice, French horn, harp, trombone, alto saxophone, flute, cello, electric guitar, drums | Columbia Teacher's College, 1990; The Knitting Factory, etc., NYC, 1990-91. |
| Leonardo | Commissioned for dance by choreographer Eduardo Zeiger with excerpts from Sigmund Freud's essay "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood". Recorded by BOG LIFE at WNYC, May 1994, for "New & Unusual American Chamber Music." | 1993 | 25-30 min. | for BOG LIFE: baritone, mezzo-soprano, classical guitar, harp, soprano recorder, oboe, drum, cymbal, double bass | Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, New York City with Eduardo Zeiger and Friends, February, 1993, and without dance at CB's 313 Gallery, May 1992. |
| The Dinner-Party | A six-song song cycle setting poems by Amy Lowell. Premiered by Brazelton's BOG LIFE, Cape Cod, Mass. tour funded by Massachusetts Arts Lottery, November 1991. Included on BOG LIFE recording "New & Unusual American Chamber Music." | 1987-1991 | 22 min. | for BOG LIFE: mezzo-soprano, baritone, oboe, harp, double bass, marimba and percussion |
Cape Cod, MA, November 1991. Roulette, 1991. |
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I Was Kidnapped
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Operetta in which entire ensemble except contralto is Martian and speaks in motives learned from radio waves in space. Libretto by Lorraine Llamas. Premiered by BOG LIFE. | 1992 | 15-20 min. | for BOG LIFE: contralto, baritone, harp, oboe, double bass, marimba and cymbal; | Dixon Place, New York City, November 1992. |
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Battle of X and Y |
An algebraic battle between ostinato x and bridge y. Structured ensemble improvisation. Virtuosic rhythm. | 1999 | 7 min. | for Relâche: oboe, tenor sax, bassoon, viola, piano, double bass and drum set | Premiere by Relâche January 2001 |
| Sleeping Out Of Doors | A semi-concerto for piano and orchestra. Commissioned and premiered by Kristjan JŠrvi and Absolute Ensemble with soloist FangYu Liao. | 1998 | 15 min. | winds 2-2-2-2 (w/ b. cl. & cbsn.), brass 2-1-1; 1 pc. (kit), pno., acoustic gtr. (ampl.), strings 4-4-4-4-2 min. (1 bass if ampl.) | Merkin Hall, New York, May 5 1998. |
| Woman's Works | A fantasia in deconstructed sonata form for orchestra. | 1992-1994 | 10 min. | winds 2-2-2-2,; brass 4-2-2, 3 pc., harp, strs. 6-6-4-4-2 | unperformed |
| Tribute to Sun Ra | Collaboration with ethnomusicologist/ composer/saxophonist and Sun Ra scholar Allan Chase. Premiered by DADADAH with ex-Sun Ra musicians Rashied Ali (drums), Robert Rutledge (trumpet) on May 30 1993 (the day of Sun Ra's death). | 1993 | 20-25 min. | for large mixed instrumentation: voices, flute, oboe, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes, trumpet, trombone, tuba, baritone ukelele, mandolin, harp, violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, bass, drums and percussion. | Kitty Brazelton's Real Music Series, May 30 1993 (the day of Sun Ra's death). |
