2018 digital synthesis duration 6:40
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Autumn Rain
2017. English horn. Duration: 6:40.
Written for my colleague Ian Davidson of the Texas State music faculty and Pleasant Street Players. Autumn Rain is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem “My November Guest,” an exquisite expression of loss and sadness.
In four movements:
I. “these dark days of autumn rain”
II. “my sorrow” (remembering Lidice)
III. “the bare, the withered tree”
IV. “the sodden pasture lane”
The second movement’s memorial to the atrocity of Lidice quotes the Czech national anthem Kde domov můj (“Where My Home Is”).
To request performance materials and permission, email BMI-affiliated composer Thomas Clark, tc24@txstate.edu
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Hukvaldy Sketches
2016. oboe, clarinet, viola, marimba. Duration: 11 minutes
The Czech mountain village of Hukvaldy was the summer home of the great 20th-century Moravian composer Leoš Janáček. I visited there many years ago when studying Janáček’s music and composing a ballet, PTACI, which was premiered in Brno in 1993. Janáček loved nature walks and studied bird songs. HUKVALDY SKETCHES is a set of modern musical impressions of old Moravia, in the ancient heart of Eastern Europe.
Premiere performance February 6, 2018, at Texas State University Performing Arts Center:
I. Hrad – morning climb to the castle ruins
II. Ptáci – watching Leoš’s birds
III. Vody – forest streams and shadows
IV. Bystroušky – mouflons and other mountain wildlife
V. Podzim – autumn sunset
Ian Davidson (oboe), Vanguel Tangarov (clarinet), Ames Asbell (viola), Kari Klier (marimba)
To request performance materials and permission, email BMI-affiliated composer Thomas Clark, tc24@txstate.edu
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Lidice Remembered
elegy 2017 duration: 9:15
For history, photos, and insights into the Lidice atrocity, go to Lidice Lives.
Live performance February 6, 2018, at Texas State University Performing Arts Center:
Texas State cello students Boris Chalakov, Joshua Adams, Terri Boutte, Simon Reid, Anna Trevino, Gabriel Vazquez
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Rainbow Rising
computer music 2016 duration: 4:38 San Marcos, Texas
Live performance February 6, 2018, at Texas State University Performing Arts Center:
Texas State cello students Boris Chalakov, Joshua Adams, Terri Boutte, Simon Reid, Anna Trevino, Gabriel Vazquez
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Falling Water
computer music 2016 duration: 6:30 San Marcos, Texas
generated from recordings of North Carolina waterfalls
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Dark Haven
Synclavier-generated sounds duration: 5:15 1981 Denton, TX
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CELESTIAL CEREMONIES
electronic music total duration: 12 minutes 1976 rev. 2017 Ann Arbor, MI and San Marcos, TX
I. Dark Energy
II. Black Hole
III. Gravitation
IV. Luminescence
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SUSPIRA
Canonic meditation on the Salve Regina chant duration: 6 minutes
San Marcos, Texas February 2017
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PARALLEL HORIZONS
Homage to Schoenberg winds and percussion
duration: 5 minutes Denton, Texas 1985
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