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Serious Music Composition

• First Symphony, premiered by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, under Ward Moore
• Series for a Festival, Op. 22 was commissioned by the Lyndhurst Festival under Stephen Simon, and performed by members of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. An unexpected rainstorm transformed the tent’s canopy into an instrument of percussion. (NYT mention)
• Shoah, a piano sonata performed by Natalia Ivanina, met with critical success when it was premiered at the Scriabin Museum in Moscow and broadcast on Russian television. (NYT mention)
• Piano Variations No. 1, Op. 12, recorded by Van Kliburn winner Camilla Budarz Kornreich, and released on the RCA label in 1978 (see details). Kornreich performed this piece in many concerts. An orchestral version was also created for the Lyndhurst Festival.
• Piece for Unaccompanied Piccolo and Laurence Trott, Op. 10, was commissioned by the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra piccolist for his New York debut at Cami Hall. His recital, likely the first devoted to the piccolo in the history of New York City, garnered two positive New York Times’ reviews. (NYT review; listen on Spotify)
• e's for 3 Woodwinds was commissioned for a Dublin exhibit opening of works by artist and scholar J. Bowyer Bell and performed by the Dublin Woodwind Quintet. As a lower-case ‘e’ appears often in Bell’s visual compositions, so the e note is frequently used in the musical composition.
• Variations for Brass Trio performed by the Metropolitan Trio (NYT mention)
• Voyage for Two Guitars, Op. 30, was recorded by husband-and-wife duo Michael Newman and Laura Oltmann and performed in more than 600 concerts.
• Row for Saxophone Quartet and Chamber Ensemble, performed by the Purchase Ensemble.
• Duet for Violin and Clarinet, written for and performed frequently by Chattanooga-based Bryony Stroud Watson and David Dunn.
• My Yah-ehli, an aria from the unfinished opera, Bar Koghbah. Performed by Richard Clark, a baritone with the New York Metropolitan Opera for eight seasons.
• River and Rock, a musicale developed with published author Helen Barolini (NYT mention)

Scores for Film, Theatre & Television

• Original film score for The Secret Army: The IRA, a documentary by scholar and artist J. Bowyer Bell based on his eponymous book (1972).
• Incidental music for The Sweet Enemy, a two-act play by Joyce Carol Oates (1973).
• The Death Collector AKA The Family Enforcer. Starring Joe Pesci and directed by Ralph de Vito (1976).
• WNEW—Metromedia Channel 5 Station Identification (1978).
• Stations, the first of two films of the same name directed by Robert Wilson (1982).
• The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, a musical developed with children’s book author Alice Low. Performed by the One Dream Theater in Tribeca, NYC (1993).
• Incidental music for several Off-Broadway theater productions (1990s).

Related Involvements

• Adjunct Professor of Film Music Composition, Mannes College of Music (1976-1995), as well as the School of Visual Arts (Discussed in On teaching methods for film composition by former student, Marco Werba for Colonne Sonore – in Italian).
• Producer, Liquid Pleasure: Take a Little Love, Media Counterpoint Productions (1976)
• Member, University of Arizona Music Advisory Board