Where Songs Go at Night
(2021)Instrumentation: Flute doubling Piccolo, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, Bassoon, French Horn, Tenor Saxophone
Duration: 13:30
National Break-Up Song
(2020)Instrumentation: three voices, piano
Duration: 5:30
Circular Argument
(2019; voice and piano version, 2021)(lyrics by Anna Weesner)
Instrumentation: voice, guitar. Or: voice, piano
Duration: 3:00
The Very Air
(2019; voice and piano version, 2021)(lyrics by Anna Weesner)
Instrumentation: voice, guitar. Or: voice, piano
Duration: 3:00
Writing a Letter to Jane After Many Years
(2019; voice and piano version, 2021)(lyrics by Anna Weesner)
Instrumentation: voice, guitar. Or: voice, piano
Duration: 4:30
Song-Shaped Absence in a Soundtracked World
(2019)Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, piano
Duration: 7:30
Someone to talk to
(2019)Instrumentation: clarinet
I. Someone to talk to / II. Let me tell you things / III. I think we both know where this is going /
IV. How do you remember it?
Duration: 10:00
The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground
(2018)Instrumentation: Clarinet, two violins, viola, cello
(links open to Spotify)
I. Early Days
II. Music in Five Pulses (how you broke my heart)
III. Parenthetical Blues (timing is everything)
IV. A Few Questions for Arnold
V. Parenthetical Folk Song
VI. Music in Five Pulses (how we used to dance)
VII. Lament
VIII. Oh, to Live in a World Symphonic
Duration: 24:30
Note ->Until (I am going to play the violin until you come back)
(2018)Instrumentation: violin
Duration: 15:00
Mantra Music: No Harmony Like Silence
(2018)Instrumentation: singers (hopefully many, both trained and untrained) and instruments (various, but at least piano)
Duration: 4:00
Love Story in Six Parts
(2017)Flight * Timelessness * Questions * Pop song * Mad scene * Coda
Instrumentation: Oboe, two violins, viola, cello
Duration: 14:30
Changing the Odds
(2017)Instrumentation: two trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba
Duration: 3:30
Vamp
(2016)Instrumentation: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Duration: 10:40
My Mother in Love
(2015; revised 2018)Ten songs with lyrics by Anna Weesner
Instrumentation: voice, flute, oboe, violin, cello, two guitars
- Reading on the Stairs
- Dinnertime
- My Sister
- Spare Parts
- Powers
- Lament: Invisible
- Laughing
- Fierce
- Reading Before Sleeping
- Okay?
Duration: 25:00
Note ->The Space Between
(2015)Instrumentation: two violins, viola, cello
Duration: 13:00
Media links: forthcoming on Bridge Records
We Shall Overcome
(2014)Instrumentation: trumpet, violin, double bass, piano
Duration: 6:00
Sudden, Unbidden
(2012)Instrumentation: violin, cello
Duration: 12 :30
Snapshot of a Teenaged Moment When Everything Began
(2012)Text by Anna Weesner
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB, with 2 soloists, piano
Duration: 9:00
Lift High, Reckon—Fly Low, Come Close
(2009)Instrumentation: violin, cello, piano
Duration: 10:30
Available on Small and Mighty Forces, Albany Records TROY 1518; Spotify, iTunes, etc
Flexible Parts
(2008)Small Piece of the Story * Proximity * Local Dance * Elements * Air * Viola Song * Further Small Piece of the Story
Instrumentation: viola, piano
Duration: 10:00
The Nearness of Things
(2007)Instrumentation: violin solo
Duration: 12:20
Available on Small and Mighty Forces, Albany Records TROY 1518
Streaming links:
Youtube Music
Apple Music
Spotify
Pandora
Deezer
Mother Tongues
(2006)Instrumentation: voice, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
Duration: 10:00
Recording: Available on Small and Mighty Forces, Albany Records TROY 1518; Spotify, iTunes, etc
Forgetting
(2005; quartet version)Instrumentation: voice, flute or violin, cello, piano
Duration: 6:00
Love Song with Counterpoint
(2005; quartet version)Instrumentation: voice, flute or violin, cello, piano
Additional version for voice and piano
Duration: 4:00
What gathers, what lingers
(2003)Instrumentation: violin, piano
Duration: 14:00
Media links: Youtube (audio)
Available on Small and Mighty Forces, Albany Records TROY 1518; Spotify, iTunes, etc.
Still Things Move
(2002)Instrumentation: violins, violas, cellos, double basses
Duration: 14:00
Sometimes a Wild and Quiet Place
(2001)Instrumentation: chamber orchestra
Duration: 10:00
Light and Stone
(1999)Instrumentation: clarinet, violin, piano
Duration: 13:00
Available on Small and Mighty Forces, Albany Records TROY 1518; Spotify, iTunes, etc.
Possible Stories
(1995; revised 2002)Instrumentation: cello solo
Duration: 12:00
- Things to come
- Theme—collected and private
- Alternately hesitant and passionate
- Engaged—joyful, rugged
- First a smile, and finally a brazen mood
- Memories of a private song