updated 6/14/04

Click on the button or title to download excerpts of my music in CD quality MP3 format:

Vocal

Say You Are (on Receiving a New Volume of Medtner in the Mail) (2.6 Mb) - Words by Margaret Fabrizio. Written for 4 part male chorus. This version is being performed by Noel Cragg singing every part on multiple tracks.

Instrumental

American Piano Concerto excerpts (5 Mb) - my concerto is still a promising but unfinished fragment.
Peabody Symphony, Yuliya Gorenman, piano

Revelation -for organ - The rich and intense middle section of a larger set of variations based on Sweelinck's ancient dance theme.
George E. Becker, Visscher organ at Old First Presbyterian, San Francisco

Revelation -for orchestra (5 Mb) - The above piece recast for orchestra.
Kenneth Matthews conducting the Old First Orchestra, premiered March 4th, 2001

Paranoic Rhapsody a Sublimation of Liszt (2 Mb) - for solo 'cello. A reworking of my earliest written piece, 19th century gypsy romanticism is taken over by electronic-like sounds and the harmony and rhythms of the current world.
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick , 'cello (playing the earlier version)
click HERE for the full length version (6.8 Mb)

Apparition of B-A-C-H in a Cubist Piano Piece (1.5 Mb) - my personal answer to serialisms' defiance and denial of tonal gravity. In the extract you will hear the pianist stepping on, cutting off and crushing the opening of an a-tonal fugue. The piece somehow compresses all the emotions and events of 4 months of my life into 4 minutes.
Vicki Ray, piano

Peace (1 Mb) - for two flutes - evokes calm ancient organum singing.

Sarcastic Invention - for two flutes - a 2-voice invention goes astray until the two flutists musically spit at each other. This leads to a rapid toccata.

Lament - for two flutes - written unusually quickly - capturing my mood.
Tracy Pullo & Allison Potter, flutes

Passacaglia (3 Mb) - for Octet: clarinet, horn, bassoon and solo strings. The repeating bass pattern springs from my love of Bach's Passacaglia. Schubert wrote a long work in F major for the same ensemble. Do you treat it as 8 single lines, a small orchestra, winds vs. strings, or one big organ stop? I tried all of those. In the excerpt you hear the main theme, variations: simmering mud, neurotic hand wringing, regal march, statement as organ stop, conclusion.
Members of the Peabody student body conducted by Wilson Hermanto

If you would like to see some of the above music in printed score click here: Christo's Scores