Category: Chamber/Solo Pieces (up to 2004)

Metro Gnomes

  • Commissioned by Ian Hampton for the Langley Community Music School

 

  • Premiered at the University of British Columbia Recital Hall,  22 November, 2004

 

  • Workshopped at the Langley Community Music School, May 2005

 

Sheet music is available through the Canadian Music Centre:

http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/32256

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El hongo

El hongo was envisioned as something colourful, a bit eccentric, and purely fun. The ensemble of alto sax, cello, piano, and vibraphone suggested the idea of jazz… with some unexpected Javanese gamelan phrases incorporated into the mix.

  • Premiered by, and performed many times by Ensemble Symposium, including at the Sonic Boom Festival, Western Front, Vancouver, 14 March 2004.

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Sheet music is available through the Canadian Music Centre.

The Brain

‘The Brain’ was written for tenor voice, bass clarinet, and piano, with text based on a poem of the same name, by American poet, Emily Dickinson. It was premiered at Simon Fraser University Theatre (Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada), in March 2003.

“The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—

The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As Sponges—Buckets—do—

The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—”

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Sheet music for this piece is available through the Canadian Music Centre.