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 Charlotte, and with Lorinda Lisitza, Lucille Patton, Peter Clark, and Charlotte Cohn.

 

 

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.”