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Lech
Lecha fl/pno/string quartet dur. 15 min. Written for the Cleveland Chamber Collective. Available at Amazon.com |
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Spring
Music (for Orchestra) dur. 5.5 minutes 1st performance by the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, David Stock, conductor, Katowice, Poland. Available at MMC Recordings, Amazon.com |
Spring Music by Gary Philo manages to be showy while avoiding . . . more predictable apporaches, opting instead for an unusual juxtaposition of Impressionist and |
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Bagatelles for Orchestra (2.2.2.2./4.2.2.1./hp/3perc/strings) |
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Three Pieces for Piano 1st performance Weill Recital Hall, NYC, Nicholas Underhill, pno. Available on Capstone Records |
Gary Philo's Three Pieces are compact musings on atmosphere and poetic gesture, with rhythmic surprises, sudden silences and lyrical sighs to keep the movements in arresting motion. |
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Music for 15 Instruments (fl/ob/cl/b.cl/hn/tpt/tbn/b.tbn/1 perc/pno/2vlns/vla/vc/cb) dur 14 mins. 1st performance Tanglewood Music Center, Marin Alsop, conductor |
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Sonata for Viola and Piano (vla/pno) National Endowment Commission dur. 17 min. 1st performance Jordan Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. Marcus Thompson, vla; Judy Gordon, pno |
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Sonatina for Viola Solo Written for Marlow Fisher, viola |
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Killifish (vln/vla/cb) dur. 11.mins. Written for Mary Rowell, vln, Marlow Fisher, vla, Jonathan Storck, cb, |
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Three Dances for Solo Viola dur. 9 min. 1st performance, Bloomington Indiana. Rebecca Henry, vla |
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Boomerang (fl/cl/vln/vla/vc) dur. 13 min. 1st performance Wellesley Composers Conference, Efrain Guigui, conductor |
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Bagatelles and Adagio (4 percussionists) dur. 11 mins. 1st performance Greenwich House, NYC Charles Descarfino, conductor |
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Fantasia For Violin Solo dur 9 mins. 1st performance by Mary Rowell, McMillin Theatre |
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Two Songs (mezzo/pno) dur. 5 min. 1st performance Amy Zorn, mezzo, Amy Reich, pno, Greenwich House, NYC |
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Summers End (tape/dancers) dur. 20 mins Commissioned by Bicycle Shop Dance Company 1st performance Bicycle Shop Dance Company Ohio Theater, NYC |
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String Trio (vln/vla/vc) dur. 10 mins. 1st performance McMillin Theatre, NYC |
Gary Philo's String Trio is a knotty, closely argued and not immediately prepossessing work in two movements. . . |
Shemayim (tape) dur. 6 mins. 1st performance Ohio Theater, NYC |
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A Changing Life (2/2/2/2,/2/1/1/2
perc/hp/strings) dur. 14 mins 1st performance Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Gunther Schuller,conductor Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA. |
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Impromptus (trbn solo) dur app. 8 mins. |
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Spring Scenes (alto sax/pno) dur. 10 mins. Commisioned by Rick Stone 1st performance Boston MA. Rick Stone, alto sax, David Bieri, pno. |
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Three Pieces for Orchestra (2/2/2/1/;1/2/0/0/; timp/; strings) dur. 10 mins. Commissioned by the New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra 1st performance New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra, James Bergin, cond. |
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Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (cl/vln/pno) dur. 14 mins. Commissioned by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chamber Ensemble 1st Performance Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA |
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Two Pieces for Solo Piano |
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Outbursts and Reflections (2/2/2/2/;4/2/3/1/; 1 perc/;harp/pno/strings) dur. 7 mins. Commissioned by the Vermont Philharmonic 1st performance Montpelier, VT. |
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Out on Maneuvers (fl/cl/vln/vc) dur. 10 mins. 1st performance Composers in Red Sneakers, Cambridge, MA |
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Septet (fl/cl/perc/pno/vln/vla/vc) dur. 14 mins |
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Three Short Ones (solo viola) dur. 3 mins. |
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Two Pieces for Children's String
Orchestra dur. 6 mins. 1st performance Concord, MA. James Bergin, conductor |
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Winterset (pno solo) dur. 12 mins. 1st performance New England Conservatory, Nicholas Underhill, pno. |
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Black Elk (viola solo) dur. 5 mins. 1st performance James Bergin, New England Conservatory |
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Etude for Solo Tenor Saxophone dur. app. 4 mins. |
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