Frazzled hair. Mad, coffee-fueled eyes. White pharmacist coat. A sea of boiling beakers, flashing lights and scattered papers. All for the latest in a long line of -inators.
Instrumentation: flute and alto saxophone
Duration: 2 minutes
Premiere: 5 August 2011 by the Tower Duo
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. . . Cloudburst. Springtime pokes its head through the daisies. A sodden quandary of mud puzzles. Foxfire and fern frost. Ruins of flora. Fire flies sparks spidering toward stars. Thorns thistles brambles and briers. Heaving and dearth. Night flocks of angels trumpet. Rainbows end.
Instrumentation: saxophone, double bass, piano and percussion
Duration: 25 minutes
Premiere: 7 June 2011 by Eric Hansen, David Kjar, Scott Holden, and Ron Brough
Performance History: complete performance list
Transcriptions: night flocks of angels trumpet for violin and piano
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“A Field Guide to Natural History” was commissioned in 2010 by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
“It turns out we never made it to Monet’s gardens. We missed the train we needed by about 10 minutes. So after going to church, getting out money at the ATM, and doing our best to make it happen, it fell through.
“We were all hungry so we decided to go to the Tulleries to eat lunch. Little did we know that the Tour de France route went right past there, so when we got out of the subway, we were in the middle of the crowd.” — Journal entry, 26 July 2009
Instrumentation: saxophone quartet
Duration: 7 minutes
Recording: read by US Coast Guard Saxophone Quartet
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