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A List of Our Works
Compositions by William
Aletheia (2017)
For performance artist and
computer controlled digital piano. (50 minutes.)
Six Songs for Aletheia
2008
For voice and two pianos.
Thirty Memos
for Piano (2007)
One hour of piano music in 30 short pieces.
Cybeline (2004, expanded in 2005)
A music theater
work for performance artist and quadraphonic tape. (45 minutes) Premiere:
REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall, Los Angeles, March 16, 2004
Music for the End of Time (1998)
For trombone and quadraphonic
tape. (52 minutes.) Premiere: Montreal - McGill University, March 1998.
Street Scene for the Last Mad Soprano (1996)
A music
theater work for soprano (optionally playing an instrument) and quadraphonic
tape. (51 minutes) Premiere: Konstanz, Germany – November 1996
Miriam, Part II, The Chair (1988)
Part II of the Miriam Trilogy for for soprano (with optional
instrumental part) and piano on a text by the composer. Premiere: Stuttgarter
Tage der Neue Musik (1988).
Miriam, Part I, The Mirror (1990),
For Pantomime/Actor/trombonist
Premiere: Munich Biennale, May 1990.
As It Were A Trumpet Talking (1987)
For solo trombone
Premiere Saporo Japan by the Munich Philharmonic
Soloists
Music for the End of Time (Accoustic Version) (1987)
For trumpet, trombone, contrabass, and percussion
Premiere Saporo Japan by
the Munich Philharmonic Soloists
Act Without Words I (1986)
For pantomiming instrumentalist; text of Samuel Beckett. (20 minutes) Premiere:
Staatstheater Ingolstadt, Fall 1986
Rockaby (1985)
For singing actress and tape of voice, four trombones and piano; text of Samuel
Beckett. (25 minutes) Premiere: Staatstheater Kassel, April 25, 1986 (25
minutes)
Ohio Impromptu (1985)
For tenor, actor, and piano: text of Samuel Beckett. (20 minutes) Preimere:
Munich - Gasteig Kultur Zentrum, March 1, 1986.
Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking-Glass (1985)
A children’s opera for chamber orchestra and singers. (55 minutes)
Premiere: Tel Aviv - Israel Chamber Orchestra, March 19, 1985.
Six Songs
From Alice Through the Looking-Glass (1985)
With piano
accompaniment
Leonore (1983)
For acting trombonist on a text by the composer. (15 minutes) Premiere: Munich -
Nacht der Experimentelle Musik, November 1983)
Words and Music (1983)
For actor, baritone, and piano on the text by Samuel Beckett. (1983) Premiere:
Frankfurt - Theater am Turm, April 25, 1985. (22 minutes)
Winnie (1983)
For soprano (with optional instrument) and piano with text from Samuel Beckett’s
Happy Days. (45 minutes) Premiere: Rome – Nuovo Forme Sonare, December 1984.
Hamm (1981)
For acting violinist with text from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. (17 minutes)
Premiere: Munich – Lehnbach Haus Glaerie, March 1981.
Das Kleine Traumbuch (1981)
Seven small piano works for children.
Vladimir (1981)
For acting bass clarinetist using text from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
(17 minutes) Premiere: Gartow, Germany – Scholss Gartow, August 1981.
The Swineherd (1980)
For soprano, tenor, flute, viola, harp, and percussion (1) after the fairytale
of Hans Christian Anderson. (20 minutes) Premiere: Sienna - July 1979 (1st part
only)
The Lion and the
Unicorn (1978)
A short, coloristic work for contrabass and
harp.
Alice In Soundland
(1976)
An early experimental version of Alice Through the
Looking-Glass.
Pond (1976)
For solo trombone. (5 minutes) Premiere: New York - Mannhattan School of Music,
1977
The Owl (1975)
For brass quintet and three percussionists after texts by Native Americans. (10
minutes)
The Land of Journeys’ Ending (1974)
A passion play for tenor, baritone, flute, trombone, piano, and three perssion
using the alabados of New Mexico and Psalm 22. (20 minutes) Premiere: Relache
Ensemble, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1976.
The Mescalito Sonata (1973)
For two pianos. (10 minutes) Premiere: Albuquerque – University of New Mexico,
April 1974.
Compostions by Abbie Conant
Rachel's Lament (1997)
For baritone, two children performers, and tape. Premiere: Leipzig 1997
Pond (1976)
For solo trombone. (5 minutes) Premiere: New York - Mannhattan School of Music,
1977
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