I have worked with So Percussion for a very long time now and I know them really well. When I got the opportunity to write a concerto for them I wanted to make it specifically for them, for the things that they have been concentrating on for the past few years. The are frequently theatrical, they invite found objects into their performances, they build their own instruments, etc. I wondered if I could make the unusualness of their musicality the centerpiece of this concerto, but how could an orchestra of ‘normal’ instruments doing mostly ‘normal’ things find common ground with them?…
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BERLIN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS CHOIR
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cheating, lying, stealing (1993, rev. 1995) 11'
bcl,vc,pf,perc,and 2 antiphonal brake drums
Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Commissioning Program for Present Music, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Collage
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these broken wings (2008) 16'
fl/pc,cl/bcl,pf,vn,vc,perc
Eighth Blackbird
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sleeper’s prayer (2016) 7'
treble voice and organ
LA Philharmonic and Jacaranda; dedicated to Steve Reich for his 80th birthday
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face so pale (1992) 9'
6 pianos
Piano Circus
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i lie (2001) 5'
Text (Yiddish) by Joseph Rolnick
small chorus SAA
Kitka
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the anvil chorus (1991) 7'
solo percussion
Fromm Foundation for Steven Schick
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oh graveyard (2010) 3'
Text by David Lang (after the spiritual "Lay This Body Down")
SATB
Conspirare
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while nailing at random (1983) 10'
piano solo
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undanceable (2010) 3'
piano and cello