Viola and organ is a particularly dense and doleful combination; here they go through quite a lot together.

The second string quartet consists of four rounds: two that were originally vocal, and two that weren’t. Bass lines and other niceties are sometimes added.

There have been a few articles over the years that rang changes on this headline; this one is from Metro Magazine, in 1988.

In 1982, I wrote music for Cortland Set, a dance by Margaret Jenkins.  The score was based on the poetry of Michael Palmer: part of it was a tetrachordal setting of his words, and part was piano music developed from the same material.

I’ve written a number of drone pieces for organ; this is one of them (that is, the beginning of one of them).

The Regard of Flight appeared at the Great Lakes Festival in Cleveland in 1987.  It was a busy year for that show.

Here’s a review.  I’ve been called many things, but I’d never before been compared to an Arrow collar ad.

I’ve written several rounds on the verses of Robert Herrick.  They seem quite suited for that.  Here’s one of them.

An article by Tom Murrin, which appeared in Paper magazine in 1993.

Raymond Roussel’s Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique is a remarkable book: four poems, describing sites in Africa, each digressing into an elaborate structure of nested parentheses.  Roussel published it himself; and to thicken it, commissioned 59 illustrations.  Characteristically, he avoided contact with the illustrator, preferring to hire a detective agency to find an artist, who then drew the illustrations without reading the book — or even knowing who wrote it.  In fact, the artist, Henri Zo, was dismayed when he received a printed copy, since he thought his pictures were too plain for Roussel’s unusual imagination.

I set seven of Roussel’s “Indications pour 59 dessins,” his directions to Zo.  In each, the right hand of the piano part is a translation of the text into Solrésol, the artificial musical language developed by François Sudre.  The bass line and vocal part were written around it.