YEAR |
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TYPE OF WORK |
COMMISSIONED BY & PREMIERE DATE AND LOCATION |
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| 2006 |
Slipping Glimpse |
Live score for dance (90 min) | Margaret Jenkins Dance Company May 2006; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
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| 2005 | Running with the Land |
Live score for dance (37 min) | Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, De Young Museum, San Francisco October 16, 2005 |
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| 2004-05 |
Still, Rise, Fall, Again |
Chamber Orchestra (two movements, 20 min) | San
Francisco Chamber Orchestra March 4-6, 2005; Palo Alto, San Francisco, Berkeley |
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| 2004-05 | The
Tyrant |
Chamber opera for tenor & six instruments (60 min) | Seattle
Chamber Players, Present Music, California EAR Unit May 1 & 2, 2005 |
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| 2003 | Snow In June | Music Theater for Chinese soprano, two tenors, violin, guitar/banjo/mandolin, accordion, contrabass & percussion (90 min) | American
Repertory Theatre December 3, 2003; Cambridge, MA; directed by Chen Shi Zheng |
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| 2002 | In The Name(less) | Duo for Quadrachord and Marimba Lumina (25 min) | Musical
Traditions, Inc. November 6, 2002 North American New Music Festival |
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| 2001 | Chromatic Quadrachord | Chamber work for violin, clarinet, piano, marimba and Quadrachord excerpted from Sound Stage | Zeitgeist June 25, 2001 WalkerArt Center |
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| 2001 | Sound Stage | Music Theater work for 5 musicians and invented instruments (80 min) | Zeitgeist,
Helena Presents, Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer June 25, 2001; Walker Art Center |
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| 2001 | In The Name | Live score for dance (35 min) | Symphony
Space/Allyson Green and Dancers February 23, 2001 |
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| 2001 | Unequal Distemperament | Concerto for Cello & Electro-Acoustic Band (3 movements, 21 min) | Paul
Dresher Ensemble February 10, 2001; Stanford University |
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| 2001 | InDelicate Balance | collaboration w/ Ned Rothenberg (60 min) | World
Music Institute/Mary Flagler Cary Trust April 26, 2001; Merkin Concert Hall |
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| 2000 | Kalasam | Score for Dance (3 movements, 60 min) | Nancy Karp and Dancers |
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| 2000 | Steel | Surround sound work for DVD Audio (5 1/2 min) | Starkland Records, released January 2000 |
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| 1998 | Elapsed Time | Duo for Violin and Piano (3 movements, 22 min) | McKim
Fund in the Library of Congress April 3, 1998 by David Abel & Julie Steinberg; Library of Congress, Washington DC |
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| 1997 | Outawak | Score of dance/theater (80 min) | ODC
San Francisco June 12, 1997 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
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| 1997 | Retrodisrespective | Solo for Electric Guitar and live electronics (18 min) | The
Body Electric Festival September 30, 1997 Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
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| 1996 | Cage Machine & Chorale Times Two | Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band (20 min) | Meet
the Composer & Creative Work Fund, Cal Performances, Helena
Presents, ASU Public Events February 27, 1997 |
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| 1995 | Stretch | Chamber Ensemble of 7 (17 min) | California
EAR Unit & Walker Art Center May 14, 1995 Walker Art Center |
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| 1995 | Blue Diamonds | Solo Piano (18 min) | Vicki
Ray/Freeman Fund for Contemp. Music January 25, 1996 Piano Spheres Series, Los Angeles |
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| 1994 | Din of Iniquity | Electro-acoustic Chamber Ensemble of six players (12 min) | Meet the Composer w/Cal Performances University of Iowa Hancher Aud. Performing Arts Chicago et. al. October 29, 1994 |
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| 1993 | The Gates | Score for evening length choreographic work for electric chamber quartet (90 min) | Meet
the Composer & the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company July 8, 1993 Columbia College, Chicago |
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| 1993 | Fail Safe | Solo with live electronics (13 min) | Premiered at Casals Hall, Japan, October 17, 1993 |
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| 1992 - 1993 | Awed Behavior | Opera/Music Theater (90 min.) | Opera
America, Produced by the Paul Dresher Ensemble March 24, 1993 Theater Artaud, San Francisco |
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| 1991 | Age of Unrest | Score for Dance with live quartet: keyboard, guitar, bass & drums (18 min) | Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company/Meet the Composer January 23, 1991 Laney College Theater, Oakland, CA |
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| 1990 | Cornucopia | Chamber Orch. (17 min) | St.
Paul Chamber Orchestra April 27, 1990, St. Paul, MN Conducted by John Adams |
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| 1990 | Secret House | Dance Collaboration (electronic tape) (31 min) | ODC/San
Francisco May 12, 2005 Herbst Theater, SF |
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| 1990 | Pioneer | Opera/Music Theater (90 min) | Spoleto
Festival USA, University of Iowa, Cal Performances, Northeastern
Univ. May 26, 1990 Spoleto Festival |
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| 1989 | Power Failure | Two act Opera (100 min) | American
Music Theatre Festival Walker Art Center, U. of Iowa April 29, 1989 AMTF, Philadelphia |
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| 1989 | Opposites Attract | Ensemble of 6 musicians & live electronics (55 min) | New
Music America November 19, 1989 Brooklyn Academy of Music |
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| 1989 | Double Ikat (revised 1990) | Piano, violin, percussion (23 min) | New
Music America November 15, 1989 Guggenheim Museum |
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| 1989 | Mirrors | Solo electric bass & electronics (15 min) | Robert
Black/Steinberger Instruments Bang-On-A-Can Marathon 1990 |
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| 1988 | Loose the Thread | Chamber trio for dance (30 min) | Brenda Way/Oberlin Dance Collective |
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| 1987 - 1998 | Slow Fire Act II | Music Theatre/Opera for Paul Dresher Ensemble (80 min) | American
Music Theatre Festival February 4, 1988 Hancher Aud. U of Iowa |
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| 1987 | Rhythmia | Tape work for dance | Shirley Mordine and Company (Chicago) |
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| 1987 | Once It Touches The Rain | Tape work for dance | Performa '87/Danceworks Northwest (Seattle) Choreographer M. Jenkins |
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| 1987 | Shelf Life | Dance work with live perf. by Paul Dresher Ens. (35 min) | Margie Jenkins Dance Company |
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| 1987 | Tamina | Tape work for dance | Brenda Way/Oberlin Dance Collective |
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| 1987 | The Tempest | Score for theatrical production | La Jolla
Playhouse (directed by Robert Woodruff) August 11, 1986 |
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| 1986 | Water Dreams | Tape work for radio (12 min) | Music and Arts Programs of America Released 9/86 |
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| 1986 | Home (Part 2) | Tape work for dance (22 min) | Nonesuch Commission Award (for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company) |
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| 1986 | Figaro Gets a Divorce | Score for theatrical production | Nonesuch Commission Award (for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company) |
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| 1985 | Slow Fire Act I | Music theatre/Opera for Paul Dresher Ensemble (35 min) | New
Music America '85, Mark Taper Forum October 18, 1985 |
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| 1985 | Was Are/Will Be | Staged concert work for Paul Dresher Ensemble (12 min) | NEA OMT Producers Grant |
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| 1984 | re:act:ion | orchestral (28 min.) | San
Francisco Symphony December 15, 1984 Conducted by John Adams |
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| 1984 | SeeHear | Music theatre work for 3 singers & 13 inst.(80 min.) | George
Coates Performance Works, Cal Performances (UC Berkeley) May 4, 1984 Zellerbach Auditorium |
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| 1984 | Other Fire | Tape work for radio (12 min) | Olympic
Arts Festival broadcast June 1984 KPFA-FM Berkeley, CA |
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| 1983 | are are | Music Theatre work for two tenors, actor and live musician (80 min) | George
Coates Performance Works March 7, 1993 Theater Artaud |
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| 1983 | Destiny | Duo for electric guitar w/tape loops and drum set (11 min) | Wendy Rogers Dance Company |
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| 1982 | Casa Vecchia | String quartet | Kronos
String Quartet November 19, 1982 Herbst Theater, SF |
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| 1982 | Channels Passing | Chamber septet for dance | Nancy
Karp and Dancers |
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| 1982 | Wintergreen | Tape work for dance | Wendy Rogers Dance Company |
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| 1982 | Dark Blue Circumstance | Live performance solo work for electric guitar and electronics | Premiered October 12, 1982 New Performance Gallery, San Francisco |
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| 1981 | The Way of How | Music Theatre for two tenors, actor and musician | George
Coates Performance Works September 15, 1982 New Performance Gallery, SF |
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| 1981 | Liquid & Stellar Music | Live performance solo work for electric guitar and electronics | Premiered at Festival d'automne, November 12, 1979 Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris |
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| 1979 - 1981 | Night Songs | Chamber work for Sop., 2 tenors & 6 inst. | New Port Costa Players, California Arts Council |
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| 1977 | Where
We Are Now |
Two classical guitars | none |
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| 1976 - 1977 | This Same Temple | Two pianos (25 min) | East
Bay New Music Ensemble May 7, 1977 University Art Museum |
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| 1975 | Guitar Quartet | For four guitars | East Bay New Music Ensemble April 12, 1975 |
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