The Music of Silas Huff

 

Orchestra       Film       Solo/chamber        Electronics     |    Voice        Chorus     |     Theatrical

 

 

Works for Orchestra:

 

Five Episodes for Cello & Orchestra

(27') *2222-4230-timp+2-str

Listen: Episode1, Episode2, Episode3, Episode4, Episode5

 

Chunjie Ge ("Spring Song Festival")

(40') *2*2*22-4231-timp+2-str

A ballet symphony, 4 movements may be performed separately

 

Fantasy for Orchestra (listen)

(7:25') 2222-4230-timp+2-str

 

Begging the Question

(10') 2222-4230-timp+2-str

winner of the 1999 Los Angeles Valley College Composition Competition

 

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Works for Film:

 

Bad News Turns Good (listen)

(1:29') 2222-2210-timp+2-str

 

The following cues are from the upcoming PBS film
 Return to Venice: In the Steps of Marco Polo

 

Marco Polo Theme (listen)

 

Venice - Middle Ages (listen)

 

The Holy Land (listen)

 

Marco Polo Escapes (listen)

 

Skulls in the Desert (listen)

 

Mysterious Desert (listen)

 

Spirits in the Desert (listen)

 

Beautiful Tibet (listen)

 

 

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Solo & Chamber Music:

 

Three Entities for Clarinet (listen)

(10:42') features multiphonics

 

Entity 2.1 (listen)

(6:06') for solo piano

 

Dia de la Muerte

(15') for flute, percussion, guitar, bass, and narrator

based on poetry of Garcia Lorca

 

Whiskey

(4:00-6:00') for 6 speaking, drinking alcoholics (see score)

(electronic version exists below)

 

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Works for Electronics:

 

Giant of the 20th Century (listen)

(4:21') audio sample art

 

Whiskey

(3:40') for recorded alcoholic

(a live version exists above)

 

Action Cue (listen)

(1:27') a sample of music for film

 

Staccato (listen)

(1:31') a sample of music for film

 

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Works for Voice:

 

Four Cowboy Songs

(15') for voice & piano or voice & chamber ensemble

3 settings of old American cowboy songs and 1 yodel

 

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Works for Chorus:

 

Five Requiem Pieces

(18') each movement is performable alone

 

Cowboy Songs

(10') versions for 1-part, 2-part, & 4-part chorus with piano

3 settings of old American cowboy songs

 

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Works for Theater:

 

Ugly Duckling

(45') an opera for kids in four scenes

Listen to excerpts: "Mama Duck's recit"

"Can You?" (trio for cat, chick, & duckling)

"Duckling's recit", "Waltz of the Hunting Dugs" and "Ballad"

 

Xanen: King of Time

(120') operetta in two acts

 

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