
ELECTIONS FROM CHÉRI was
released in August, 2009, and contains just over an hour’s worth of music from
the Actors Studio workshop production of my opera CHÉRI, directed by the
Studio’s co-artistic director and Tony-award winner Carlin Glynn. Scored for an ensemble of 4 musicians,
conducted by Mark Shapiro, featuring Maggi-Meg Reed as Léa, Erik Lautier as
Chéri, Elena Shaddow as Edmée, Marni Nixon as
FIVE, released in 2002 by Albany
Records, contains five pieces of mine composed after 1995. You can explore its
contents here.
You
can purchase Selections from Chéri and Five at all the usual
spots -- amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Tower Records, geometry.net, etc.) or
directly from Albany Records at www.albanyrecords.com.
Some
of my other works have been recorded on compilation CDs.
MAUD, a monodrama for mezzo-soprano and
computer-generated sound, is on the Opus One label. Christine Schadeberg gives a great
performance, as does the IBM 360/91 mainframe computer “orchestra.” This piece was awarded 1st Prize
by the American Society of University Composers in 1976.
A
16-voice a cappella version of ART AND ISADORA (the full SATB version
separates “Adagio Dancer” and “The Campers at Kitty Hawk” in my triptich “USA
Stories”, included in FIVE) was recorded by The New York Virtuoso Singers and
is included on a CRI release titled ”To Orpheus.”
A
version of my orchestral tone poem THREE RIVERS can be found on an Opus
One CD titled “The Orchestra According to the Seven.”
There
is also a recording for rock group called ANNETTE, for which I wrote
most of the songs, and played keyboards. The disk was issued back in 1982 by
Primadonna Records. It may still be found in used vinyl shops, or over the
Internet by record collectors. The disk
was a Billboard Magazine “Top Album Pick.”