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MUSIC FOR THEATER

Eclipse [Voicespace III] VIDEO VERSION (1979) 16:48', cf. MULTIMEDIA and SERIES OF WORKS
Electroacoustic vocal work
Quadraphonic computer generated and processed sound,
Electroacoustically processed voices,
Video images by Ed Emshwiller
Text fragments by Issa, Melville, Stevens,
Borges (The Moon, The Other Tiger ["...in the sun or deceptive moonlight..."]),
Joyce, García Márquez
Electroacoustic version [Eclipse Voicespace III], cf. ELECTROACOUSTIC and SERIES OF WORKS

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The Emperor of Ice Cream [rev. 1974] (1961-62) 15.5'
(Staged) 8 Voices, Perc, Pf, Db
Text: poem The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Wallace Stevens
First performance staged [premiere]: 27 April 1965
Nuova Consonanza Festival, Rome, Daniele Paris, Conductor
First performance without staging: 19 March 1965
20th Century Innovations, New York City, Gunther Schuller, conductor

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ILLUSION, cf. SERIES OF WORKS
2 Actors, Baritone, High Soprano
Solo Picc, Solo Cl, Solo Vc, Chamber Ensemble,
8-channel computer processed sound, Staging


I/O: A Ritual for 23 Performers, cf. MULTIMEDIA
(Staged) 9 Female Voices, 9 Male Mimes, 2 Fl, Cl,
2 Technician/Performers, live electronic processing, projections


JUSTICE (1999-2001) 49'25", cf. SERIES OF WORKS
Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Multichannel computer sound,
Real-time spatialization, Staging
Text: assembled by the composer from Aeschylus and Euripides
First performance (revised version) [première]: 30 November 2001
Donnah Welby, Actress, Carmen Pelton, Soprano,
Steven Schick, Percussion, Josef Kucera, Robert Pitt, Peter Otto, Spatialization and dissemination,
Henry Fonte, Director, Martha Mountain, Lighting, K Williams, Manager,
Harvey Sollberger, Musical Advisor
The Great Hall of the Library of Congress in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, DC
Commissioned by the Julian E. Berla and Freda Hauptman Berla Fund in the Library of Congress
for the celebration of the LOC's Bicentennial in 2000

First performances (first version): 21, 22 May 1999
Lauren Flanagan, Soprano; Ellen Lauren, Actress; Steven Schick, Percussion; Josef Kucera, Sound Engineering; Peter Otto and Timothy Labor, Real-time spatialization;
Tadashi Suzuki, Partial staging, Costumes, Lighting, Direction
AT THE EDGE, an evening at the 2nd Theatre Olympics, Shizuoka, Japan

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JUSTICE: The Arias, cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as MUSIC FOR THEATER
Tiffany DuMouchelle, Soprano, Steve Solook, Percussion,
Paul Hembree, Computer Musician
First performance The Arias: 24 March 2016
Slee Hall, University at Buffalo - SUNY

A Merciful Coincidence [Voicespace II] THEATRICAL VERSION (1976) 36', cf. SERIES OF WORKS as well as MUSIC FOR THEATER
Music theater for three vocalists, Electroacoustic montage
Text: extract from Watt, a novel by Samuel Beckett
First Theatrical performance with vocalists: 9 June 1976
Festival International de Musique Expérimentale, Bourges
Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble
1976 Bicentennial Year National Endowment for the Arts Award
The score for the THEATRICAL version is forthcoming.