COMPOSITIONS - CONTEMPORARY
CLASSICAL | JAZZ | ELECTRONIC | CONTEMPORARY
These pieces are for voice and different arrangements of instruments, as well as instrumentals of various kinds.
VOCALS
Windows Synthesizers, Cello, & Voice Out This Door Synthesizers & Voice One For My Heart Synthesizers & Voice We've Got To Fall In Love Synthesizers, Cello, & Voice I'm Not Your Brother Cello & Voice Now That You're Gone Synthesizers, Keyboards, Cello, Voice I Already Miss You Piano, Cello, & Voice I Wish I Could Tell You Synthesizers, Cello, & Voice Past The Pain Synthesizers & Voice I Watch The Years Go By Synthesizers, Cello, & Voice Rain In The Forecast Synthesizers, Keyboards,Voice Know The Question Cello, Keyboards, Voice Our Father Cello, Keyboards, Voice Wedding Offertory Piano & Voice INSTRUMENTALS
Dance 1 Keyboards, Synthesizers Dance 2 Keyboards, Synthesizers Keyboards, Synthesizers Parallels Synthesizers, Keyboards Morning Dance Synthesizer, Keyboards, Ocean Out of Time Synthesizers, Keyboards Nicole's Dance Cello Ensemble
Contemporary Vocals
CLASSICAL | JAZZ | ELECTRONIC | CONTEMPORARY
Windows
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While cleaning my parent's garage in 1973 I found an anthology of poetry printed by USC students from the class of 1924. Windows was composed from a poem in that anthology that particularly impressed me. The author's name is Edith Marie King.
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Out This Door
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I met, and had a brief relationship with a woman who is a very fine improvisational pianist. She and I had an incredible ability to sit down and improvise long, beautiful, intense music at the drop of a dime. I eventually could not spend any time with her; even to play music. Our personalities clashed too greatly. That was a real shame because the music was very special. However, I thought my mental health was more important, so I quickly exited... out this door.
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One For My Heart
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I have a friend who has the lovely habit of hugging me twice when we leave each other. One evening it occurred to me that hugs are the first step to marriage. This song is one about how that might all get put together.
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We've Got To Fall In Love
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I met a lovely woman named Cassandra at a company Christmas party in 1996. We talked off and on about how we are trying to find our singing voices. We also spoke about how it has felt recovering from our most recent relationships. She is the inspiration for this song.
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I'm Not Your Brother
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This song describes a very frustrating situation that arises between women and men ... the notion many women have that being involved with a "nice guy" is too much like being with a "brother". I cannot say how many times I have heard women complain about relationships with men who treat them badly, and who are emotionally unavailable to them, but will not leave these men. Yet, these same women have an apparent aversion to being intimately involved with a man who is emotionally supportive, respectful, and would be a loving partner. A man who is a "diamond in the rough", or who is "rough around the edges", or who is "more of a challenge" seems to be preferred. I honestly don't understand why this happens.
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Now That You're Gone
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This song expressed how I felt during times when I was separated from an ex-fiance. It was because of this song that I met Kathleen Noble. Kathleen came to my apartment to sing "Now That You're Gone" a few weeks before I went to live in West Germany. I could not use the recording we made, but we began a friendship that is still very dear to me. After I returned from Germany in 1983, Kathleen and I spent a lot of time together. By the spring of 1986 we were pretty busy with our separate lives, so we saw much less of each other. I saw her last on the day I was married in June of 1987. In early 1989, I learned from her parents that Kathleen had been murdered. It took a long time before I could even listen to this song. "Now That You're Gone" will be known from this time on as Kathleen's Song. I miss her.
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I Already Miss You
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One Friday evening in March of 1994 I was at a Safeway store buying groceries. At the time, I was also bemoaning the fact that I would be spending the night without a date. Then it struck me that there were many attractive, interesting looking women who were also shopping that evening. I was overwhelmed by a sense of irony and the possibility that any one of these women could potentially be a "significant other". This song is a definite "sell this one" for the market. It seems to have universal appeal.
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I Wish I Could Tell You
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This is another one of those songs I think all of us have in our hearts, but haven't found a way to say.
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Past The Pain
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This song became my personal anthem in the early part of 1991. I composed it shortly after my wife left in December of 1990. It has served as a kind of therapy of hope.
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I Watch The Years Go By
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This is about a situation that many people find themselves in. A friend of mine, upon hearing this song said "I think you have a corner on this market I've never heard a song about this subject." This song is dedicated to Melinda Raynes.
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Rain In The Forecast
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This piece was composed in 1999
as a duet for two wonderful vocalists I have had the pleasure of working with. On this recording is Tishara Stacy and Dawn Troupe-Masi.
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This song was composed in 1982 for a friend of mine named Eliza Rodriguez. The song is a kind of documentary of what we talked about all the time. I've lost touch with her, but I hope she profited from our talks. I know I did.
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Our Father
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This was composed in 1974 and is my version of "The Lord's Prayer".
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This song was written for my brother's wedding. It is another piece I'd like to hear played at weddings all over the world.
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Contemporary Instrumentals
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Dance 1
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Composed during the 1991 Thanksgiving day weekend for a dancer and choreographer named Robin Greenburg. She and I have been involved in a collaborative dance project since the early part of the year which has seen many changes in scope, direction, content, and duration of our work. This piece, Dance 1, represents my attempt to get a handle on the proliferation of the dance by providing Robin with music in chunks that can be expanded, contracted, and changed around at will. It seems to work well with her style of creating, and it did wonders for my sanity.
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Dance 2
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This was written for a dance piece that was never performed. A score is not available of this piece.
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Dance 3
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This is a free-form improvisation that was created as a MIDI experiment. A score is not available of this piece.
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Parallels
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This work is actually a series of pieces that were originally roduced using a Phillips N-4504 reel-to-reel recorder. I could not hear what was playing n the separate tracks, so I "guessed" at what was going on. this is the result.
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Morning Dance
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A walk on the beach with a tape recorder inspired this piece. Seagulls and the sounds of the ocean breaking against the shore are used as the sonic backdrop of this very mellow music.
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Out Of Time
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My ex-wife was about to leave in a few days... she had found an apartment and had decided our marriage was over. I recorded this piece late one night, when it was my habit not to sleep. It is disjointed and sad. It has no meter or time. It is the way I felt.
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Nicole's Dance
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Composed for, and performed by me, for a dancer friend named Nicole.
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