MUSIC FOR WOODWINDS
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I started life as flutist, spent time in BOG LIFE with champion new-music oboist Libby Van Cleve, played in Randy Woolf's CAMP and wrote for Mike Lowenstern's bass clarinet, befriended---married, divorced and befriended again---a tenor saxophonist, and forced bassoonist Janet Underhill fly her contra from Boston to play for ten minutes in Chicago (Womens Avant Fest 97). And my second husband is a flutist. We played a flute duet at our wedding. So that might be some of what's behind all the music below: |
| NAME OF WORK | DESCRIPTION | DATE COMPOSED | LENGTH | INSTR. | PERFORMANCE(S) |
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| WIND OCTET | |||||
| Studies in C | wind octet | 2000 | 8-9 min. | flute, oboe, clarinet, alto & tenor saxophones, horn, trombone, bassoon | unperformed |
| FLUTE | |||||
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Sonata for the Inner Ear
included on CD "Kitty Brazelton: Chamber Music for the Inner Ear" released March 2002, CRI-Emergency 889 |
3 modular movements deconstructing sonata form---is it valid?---Exposition establishes motives a and b in multiple configurations; Development invites all 8 players to solo on these ideas; Recapitulation restates and wraps up bang.
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1999 | 23 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. Recorded in 2001 for release in 2002 on "Kitty Brazelton: Chamber Music for the Inner Ear", CRI-Emergency 889 |
| Fuging Tune for 3 Flutes | Canonic trio in the Early American tradition for the LaGuardia H. S. Flute Choir. | 1997 | 5 min. | for 3 flutes | LaGuardia H. S. of Music & Art and the Performing Arts Composers' Concert, March 1998. |
Eight-Eyed Spy
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Flute octet in memory of local NYC '80s pop band | 1997 | 7 min. | for 8 flutes | Premiered by Lawrence University Flute Choir, Women Composers Conference, May 2001, Appletone WI. |
| Ornette In Vietnam | Composed for harpist Park Stickney and flutist Immanuel Davis during Music at Omi/Jazz Residency | 1997 | 9 min. | for flute and harp duo | September 1997. |
| No Lee | flute solo in memory of Bruce Lee and his son. Premiered by Stefani Starin of NewBand. | 1985 | 5 min. | solo for flute, flutist's voice, natural & artificial ambiences | Sonic Boom '93, The Kitchen |
| OBOE | |||||
| 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. |
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I Was Kidnapped |
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. |
| 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. |
| CLARINET | |||||
| Sonata for the Inner Ear | see description in flute | 1999 | 23 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. Recorded in 2001 for release in 2002 on "Kitty Brazelton: Chamber Music for the Inner Ear", CRI-Emergency 889 |
| Goin' Home
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chamber duo with klezmer and other unexpected influences | November 1996 | 7 min. | for clarinet and piano | unperformed |
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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,NYC, August 1996. |
| SAXOPHONE (only partial, see REEDS) | |||||
| 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 |
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Called Out Ol' Texas
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comprov duet for 'cello and alto saxophone
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1994 | 8 min. | 'cello and alto sax duet (title is anagram thereof) | Premiered and recorded live in concert at Roulette, December 1994, by Danny Weiss (alto sax) and Dan Barrett (cello), Hugo Dwyer recording. Released in 2002 on "Kitty Brazelton: Chamber Music for the Inner Ear", CRI-Emergency 889 |
| 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, saxophone, flute, cello, electric guitar, drums | Columbia Teacher's College, 1990; The Knitting Factory, etc., NYC, 1990-91. |
| BASSOON | |||||
| The Battle of X and Y |
An algebraic battle between ostinato x and bridge y. Structured ensemble improvisation. Virtuosic rhythm. | 1999 rev. 2001 | 7 min. | for Relâche: flute, oboe, tenor sax, bassoon, viola, piano, double bass and drum set | Relâche's 2000-2001 season, May 11-13, Institute of Contemporary Art, The Ethical Society and Settlement School, Philadelphia. |
contact me: mail@kitbraz.com
