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Word for Word (2011, 10 min.)
Trumpet Concerto (2010, 20 min.)
Patriot (2007, 9 min.)
Song to Craving (2003, 9 min.)
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Partition (2010, 21 min.)
Cantata: Songs for the Divided (2004, 20 min.)
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Cutest Little Arbitrage (2011, 12 min.)
Is it Dirty (2010, 8 min.)
Eyelid Margin (2009, 12 min.)
Snowball (2008, 6 min.)
Illuminating the Maze (2008, 14 min.)
My Catalonia (2008, 7 min.)
Make it out (2008, 5 min.)
You Have AIDS (2008, 5 min.)
Katrina Ballads (2007, 1 hour)
Cordavi and Fig (2007, 8 min.)
Seven Small Love Songs (2004, 8 min.)
Antiphon (2003, 8 min.)
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Parlor Diplomacy [solo piano] (2011, 20 min.)
Electric Guitar Quartet (2011, 60 min.)
String Quintet (2011, 20 min.)
The One you Guard the Most (2009, 6 min.)
Thaw (2009, 12 min.)
Ghostspace (2009, 8 min.)
Vessels (2008, 10 min.)
Crib Dweller (2007, 8 min.)
I Remember (2007, 8 min.)
Warning Song (2006, 7 min.)
Variations and Filters (2006, 12 min.)
23 (2005, 8 min.)
One of Us, One of Them (2005, 8 min.)
Greyhound to Santa Fe: 4am (2005, 8 min.)
Once the Search (2004, 17 min.)
Spin (2004,8 min.)
Brass Quintet (2001, 4 min.)
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Room for Something (2011, 8 min.)
Away (2010, 6 min.)
Privilege (2009, 14 min.)
Mass for St. Mary’s (2008, 10 min.)
Because (2006, 6 min.)
Fortress (2005, 8 min.)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
(2005, 7 min.)
Stratagems (2004, 8 min.)
Murder on the Road in Alabama (2003, 6 min.)
Todos Parense (2002, 5 min.)
Ubi Caritas (2000, 5 min.)
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Intimacy and Resistance (2010, 5 min.)
Charleston Songbook (2008, 20 min.)
I Remember (2007, 8 min.)
I Carry Your Heart (2007, 5 min.)
(mis)communications (2001, 15 min.)
Rise up, my love (1999, 3 min.)
Early Songs (1996-2003, 15 min.)
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Is it Dirty (2010, 8 min.)
359 Each Time (2010, 8 min.)
Last Man Standing (2008, 4 min.)
Illuminating the Maze (2008, 50 min.)
My Catalonia (2008, 7 min.)
Make it out (2008, 5 min.)
Warning Song (2006, 7 min.)
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R We Who R We (2011)
Music from 'la plage'(2010, 40 min.)
Music from 'under the house'(2009, 10 min.)
Music from 'Checkmate' (2008, 10 min.)
The Coffin (2004, 6 min.)
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide (2002, 4 min.)
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The following songs are adaptable for different band combinations:
359 Each Time
All The Things
Ambitioning
Ashley Nelson (from Katrina Ballads)
Barbara Bush: 9.5.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Body Moving
Burning TV Song
Dennis Hastert: 8.31.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Everything You Do
I Mean Well
I Want Never
Is It Dirty
Kanye West: 9.2.05 (from Katrina Ballads)
Make it Out
My Favorite Ride
Never Said Nothing
Protection
Shame Campaign
This Time
We Didn't Know

 

Is It Dirty (2010, 8 min.)

2 singers with chamber ensemble:
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, bari sax, horn, trumpet, trombone, electric keyboard, electric bass guitar, drums, 2 violins, viola, cello

commission:
Albany Symphony Orchestra
(with support from Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA)
premiere:
Albany, New York, May 2010
David Alan Miller, conductor

two alternate versions:
- 2 singers with 14 musicians:
fl, ob, cl, bcl, hn, tpt, tbn, kbd, e. guit, e.bs, dr, 2 vln, vla, vc

- 2 singers with 10 musicians:
fl/afl, cl/bcl, kbd, e.guit, e.bs, dr, 2vln, vla, vc

additional performances:
21c Liederabend
The Kitchen, New York City, April 2011
performed by Ted Hearne and Mellissa Hughes, with Christa van Alstine, Eric Lamb, James Ilgenfritz, Taylor Levine and ACME

jazzy: "Is It Dirty evoked urban roil with jazzy motifs in raucous collision." - Steve Smith, The New York Times (April 7, 2011)

listen:

text: Song (Is it dirty)
by Frank O'Hara

Is it dirty
does it look dirty
that's what you think of in the city

does it just seem dirty
that's what you think of in the city
you don't refuse to breathe do you

someone comes along with a very bad character
he seems attractive. is he really. yes very
he's attractive as his character is bad. is it. yes

that's what you think of in the city
run your finger along your no-moss mind
that's not a thought that's soot

and you take a lot of dirt off someone
is the character less bad. no. it improves constantly
you don't refuse to breathe do you

from Lunch Poems, © 1964, Frank O'Hara
City Lights Books.
Used with permission.