Five Episodes for Cello & Orchestra

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

Listen: Episode1, Episode2, Episode3, Episode4, Episode5

Chunjie Ge ("Spring Song Festival")

(25') *2*2*22-4231-timp+2-str

A ballet symphony, 3 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

Bad News Turns Good (listen)

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

Cues from Return to Venice: In the Steps of Marco Polo

East-West digital orchestra

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)

Action Cue (listen)

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

Staccato (listen)

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

Three Entities for Clarinet (listen)

(10:42') solo clarinet (performed by Tom Piercy), features multi-phonics

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)

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

Four Cowboy Songs

(15') for voice & piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, or band. Three 3 settings of old American cowboy songs and 1 original song

See also WORKS for CHORUS and WORKS for THEATER

Five Requiem Pieces

(18') each movement is performable alone

Three Cowboy Songs

(10') versions for 1-part, 2-part, & 4-part chorus (TTBB or SATB) with piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, or band. Three settings of old American cowboy songs.

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"
"Ballad"

Xanen: King of Time

(120') operetta/musical in two acts