The Big List is the compendium of all my music, including published scores, demos, listings of inked (but not yet PDF'ed) scores, corresponding ASCAP numbers for those who will be performing, and even an index of lost and destroyed pieces. Your first stop for compositional compulsion. You can also use the score search at Westleaf Edition (not updated since late 2006).
Listen to over 300 compositions in Midi or audio and download the scores and parts for performance: Solo Music -- 40+ pieces for clarinet, violin, flute, tuba, recorder, contrabass, bassoon, cello, euphonium, organ, horn, MalletKat... Keyboard Music -- 55+ compositions from easy student pieces to really tough monsters. Chamber Music -- 185+ cool movements for small ensembles of all types, from one through 10 players. Organized by two, three, four, or five and more instruments. Orchestra and Band Music -- 25+ compositions for big groups, many with sets of parts ... even some marches! Vocal and Choral Music -- 50+ pieces, secular and sacred, solo voice through large chorus Performance Works -- 25+ works, with more in an upcoming limited-edition collection Electronic Pieces -- 50+ compositions ... some on CD, some in MP3 format
Many more pieces are available in inked format, so if you don't find it, check the Big List
Frog Peak Music is my exclusive distributor. You are welcome to download, print, and perform scores from this site as always, but a purchase from Frog Peak Music is a fast & effective way to get professionally produced scores ready to play, and help the composer earn his pennies.
Three Performance Pieces is available from Lulu.com. Three beautiful performance scores from the 2007 "We Are All Mozart" project. One is a set of 99 performance pieces, the second a set of seven sections for French horn, and the third a set of 13 graphical scores for tenor guitar. Several of the latter are part of the "Notations21" gallery series.
Erzsébet: A Monodrama is the opera's libretto available from either Amazon.com or Lulu.com. The opera is in progress, with several scenes completed; it will be sung by soprano Lisa Jablow in 2010. The libretto includes the full text along with images in a beautiful commemorative volume.
Country Stores of Vermont: A History and Guide is available from The History Press. It's a really good book, with fantastic pictures and great stories as well as ten fantastic tours of Vermont. You can get it cheaper at Amazon.com or you can get copies from our local Vermont bookstores and country & general stores. Autographed copies also available..
Fundraising Now!
Thousands of visitors have come to my Erzsébet: The Opera website over the years. We're now a year away from the opera's premiere in October 2011. This is a committed project and with your support will be funded by its fans and the public rather than anonymous grant committees. You can back the project with as little as $2 or $500 or more! If ten percent of the folks who emailed me since this site opened pledged $20, that would meet the goal of $12,000 for composition, publication, rehearsal, musicians, lead singer, stage design, videography, and more. Here is the link to the bathory.org site. This isn't a pure donation. There are some remarkable rewards, including t-shirts, DVDs, libretti, tickets, Two xylophones by Fred Carlson, two 1973 Ionic Performer synths, the Katherine Anne Porter Songbook signed & numbered, and "Infamous Lady" by Kim Craft:
Opera Lyrics Font
I've created a TrueType font based on 19th century opera scores. It has all the typical characters and a few more, but is missing still a few of the special characters. I'll improve it over the next few months, but if you're interested, here it is: Opera-Lyrics-Smooth. If you distribute it, please keep in mind that this version (1.65) will occasionally be updated. Click image for full-sized chart.
Build 4 U!
People have remarked for years about the imaginative character of our little New England cape, full of hand-made furniture, cabinets, closets, shelves and other interesting items. Now you can have these, too because I will build it 4 u!
Join the nonpop "Buy Local" campaign! If you're a composer or supporter of new nonpop, you can get a bumper sticker for five bucks at CafePress, item number 80570307, or even better you can download and print it yourself. The CafePress one is only 10 inches wide, but you can use the full-size image to print a big one on 11x17 paper and trim it to standard 3.75" x 15" bumper sticker size.
We Are All Mozart -- Over but Not Forgotten
We Are All Mozart A 365-day composition project.
The plan was to finish one piece of commissioned music a day in 2007. The commissioning goal wasn't met, but I finished 100 pieces, every one commissioned. The project was a success, and ultimately has influenced many other composers to pursue their compositional goals with intensity and commitment.
September 17,Montpelier, Vermont: Sonata for solo viola, Elizabeth Reid at the The Lamb Abbey, 7pm. [Note: May be moved to the Capital City Grange]
June 29,Denton, Texas: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix at New Life Church, 1350 Milam Road, East Sanger, 7pm.
June 17,Maribor, Slovenia: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix at KiBar in the KIBLA Multimedia Center, Ulica Kneza Koclja 9, 1pm.
April 27,Chicago: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project at the Museum of Contemporary Art "Tuesday Evenings in the Café" series.
April 14,Istanbul: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project at BISED auditorium, Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music State Conservatory.
March 25,Goodwell, Oklahoma: Conjim for Ed, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project at Oklahoma Panhandle State University.
March 19,Mansfield, Pennsylvania: Conjim for Ed, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project at Mansfield University.
March 16,Carbondale, Illinois: Conjim for Ed, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project at Southern Illinois University.
February 26,Oxford, UK: Conjim for Ed, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project at Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Hill Campus, Oxford Brookes University, 5:00pm.
February 18,Valencia, Spain: The Imagined Moons of Autumn. Maite Aguilar and Telmo Gadea.
A Cloak for the Lord of Cats (1995), a short-short story about vampiress Báthory Erzsébet, a true historical figure. This story forms the basis of a scene in a proposed opera.
It's Time to Bury the Dead (1992), intense article calling for the end of performances of older concert music and a revision in thinking and sensibility.
Composing a New Language (1992), proposal presented at MedArt International by Barbara S.J. Balch and me to replace lost language skills with musical language developed through interaction and virtual reality.
The Image Behind the Glass (1986), talk to ID Expo in Boston on light pens and touch screens that presages modern palmtops, handwriting recognition, and artificial intelligence features.
The Impact of the Microprocessor (1982), prophetic and political talk about microprocessor technology and philosophy, presented to the ACM at Rensselaer in Troy, New York.
The Microprocessor as a Modern Odysseus (1982), similar talk with a personal sidelight about music and the arts, presented to the IEEE in Burlington, Vermont.
