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Movement 2 of Exaltations — can be performed as an individual work for double choir and trombone. Program Notes (for entire set) Exaltations is a set of three interstitial works for double choir and brass quintet, written specifically to fit between the works on this program of Gabrieli and Bruckner. I love the sharp, sparkling attack and timbre … Read more
Program Notes Is it worthwhile, The pursuit of such radical thingsas summitless mountains? — Teddy McCoy* This work for solo bassoon initially emerged from a very different work: a 35-minute cantata-style work called Presence for eighty guitars, five singers, plus a solo guitar and solo bassoon. About halfway through that work, the bassoon breaks away into … Read more
Movement 2 of Exaltations — can be performed as an individual work for double choir and horn. Program Notes (for entire set) Exaltations is a set of three interstitial works for double choir and brass quintet, written specifically to fit between the works on this program of Gabrieli and Bruckner. I love the sharp, sparkling attack and timbre … Read more
Program Notes “Perhaps…” explores the feeling of possibility — of that moment of opening your soul just enough to envision the most incredible circumstance you can imagine before it happens. Maybe it’s anticipating the feeling of locking eyes with someone you love for the first time, or waiting for that message of confirmation that will … Read more
NOTE: This is the page for the SSAA (treble choir) version of This Love Between Us. For the SATB (original) version please go to This Love Between Us. Program Notes This Love Between Us is a piece about unity. Its seven movements juxtapose the words of seven major religious traditions of India (Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, … Read more
Program Notes This Lacrimosa interweaves the original Latin text from the requiem mass with the beautiful poetry of William O’Daly. The Lacrimosa begins: “Full of tears shall be that [judgement] day…” But O’Daly’s text asks a broader question: Without the presence of water, around us and inside us, how can we weep? It was this … Read more
Note: I wrote this arrangement of the Leonard Cohen Hallelujah for Vijay to play as part of Street Symphony events. The arrangement has gained so much traction that I decided to list it on the site. Please note: I do not own the rights to this piece — and I do not earn any income … Read more
Program Notes The word zeher means poison in Hindi. At the time I was working on this piece, I developed a pernicious case of strep throat, that three separate sets of antibiotics, over more than a month, couldn’t seem to cure. It became increasingly difficult for me to swallow, to speak and even at times, to breathe. … Read more
Program Notes Presence was the culminating work of a yearlong collaboration with Austin Classical Guitar — the title of the piece was the theme of ACG’s season. What does it mean to be present with one another? Guitar was my first instrument. I remember sitting in the waiting room before my first guitar lesson as … Read more
This is a new work, written for cellist Yoshi Masuda. It is an elaboration on the cello solo in movement 3 of my String Quartet (Ragamala). The music for this work will be released along with his new album in 2024. Program Notes one word makes a world emerged from the cello solo in the … Read more
Within the form of a harp concerto, this work borders on performance art, as we explore the devastating change ravaging our natural world. Program Notes Terra Infirma, written for and with Yolanda Kondonassis, is as much a concerto for harp and percussion as it is a one-woman monodrama. Kondonassis moves her instrument through a series … Read more
Program Notes These two etudes my contribution to Joshua Anderson’s volume New 32 — sets of fast and slow etudes by different living composers, each in response to a set from the original 32 Rose Etudes that are a staple of clarinet pedagogy. My two etudes, the ‘A minor’ ones, are actually in Hindustani ragas … Read more