Scores for Download
Since I respond to requests for scores on a regular basis, I have prepared a number of them for download, along with instructions for making parts, which is often a complicated affair. I am therefore making a number of scores available at no cost, only asking that performers report the performances to me. Please send a program from your performance, and I can collect a little royalty income!
In the works list is a link for each score, in case you'd like to request that I make and mail the score to you.
My Love Lives Down That Long Dirt Road
Follow this link to download the score, in which you will find a program note as well. It is a hand-copied score, scanned to produce pdfs. I will happily provide a performance version of the score, which has no page turns during movements, for a modest sum. Contact me using the link at the bottom of the page if you want to get a copy.
Recordings are avilable in many locations on the web, including iTunes, Spotify, and Youtube, or you could purchase the CD directly from Innova.
Elegy
Elegy was premiered at The Festival at Sandpoint in 1992. I composed the piece there, in Sandpoint, Idaho, after learning out of nowhere that I'd be in Nashville during the coming year while Vivian, my wife of only a year at the time, would be in Pittsburgh. It was a very sad time, and all I could think to compose was something that reflected that sadness. So, an Elegy, but not of the usual sort.
I later adapted this movement as the middle movement of a piece for string orchestra with flugelhorn solo, commissioned and premiered by the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.
Listen to the premiere performace (old, noisy, but a fine performance!), which features John McLandress - flugelhorn, Lisa Morrison - violin, Caitlin Curran - oboe, and Marcy Mirkin - clarinet.
To download score and parts, along with a page of instructions on making parts, follow the links which follow: score, clarinet, flugelhorn 11x17, oboe, violin, making parts. If making parts is too daunting, let me know and I'll be happy to make them and mail them to you for a nominal charge.
Lonesome Whistle
I composed Lonesome Whistle while in residence at the artists’ enclave iPark in 2007. It was hot summertime, there were expansive woods nearby, and the sound of mourning doves was consistent and haunting. That reminded me of an experience hearing many Whippoorwills in the night some years before, another haunting sound. I took long walks and found a deep sense of isolation at iPark, which is in surprisingly rural Connecticut. All this suggested Hank Williams’ mournful classic, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, which makes brief appearances in the piece. Isolation, mournful birds, fluttering night sounds pervade...
Download the score (simple back-to-back printing produces a two-page score ready for performance!), watch a video of a performance by Sarah Brady, or listen to the premiere performance by Linda Toote.