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ORCHESTRA and SYMPHONIC BAND | OPERA | PIANO and ORGAN | CHAMBER ENSEMBLE and INSTRUMENTAL and VOCAL SOLOS | VOCAL and CHORAL | Licensed for Broadcast | MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE and IMPROVISATIONAL CONCERTS | RADIO PROGRAMS and TAPE MUSIC

ORCHESTRA and SYMPHONIC BAND:
Characters
harpsichord or piano concerto with strings, oboe, 2 clarinets, 18 minutes. Score $50. Rental parts.

The Clearing Way
for contralto, chorus and orchestra, 10 minutes. Score $40. Rental parts.

Harmony
for string orchestra, 15 minutes. Score $30. Rental parts.

Pieces From Last Year
chamber orchestra: 3 alto recorders, alto flute, 2 ocarinas, and strings with piano. 10 minutes. Score $75. Rental parts.

Southern Voices
for soprano and orchestra. 21 minutes. Score and parts available from Henmar Press/C.F. Peters.

Split Tree Festival March
for symphonic band, 4 minutes. Score $25. Rental/sale parts.

Structure 123
for symphony orchestra, 5 minutes. Score $40. Rental parts.

Structure 12345
for symphony orchestra, 8 minutes. Score $40. Rental parts.

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OPERA:
The Glass Woman
two act opera for six female and four male singers; one hour plus. Piano vocal score $60.

"Mapping Venus"
two act opera for 3 sopranos, 6 mezzos and one contralto, six actresses, SSA chorus, and chamber orchestra. Piano vocal score, $70.

"Wooden Houses"

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PIANO and ORGAN:
Bits
for piano, and synthesizer tuned a quarter tone higher. 15 minutes. Score $45.

For My Brother's Wedding
for organ,4 minutes. Score $15.

M.O.M. & P.O.P.
for three pianos as suite; for three pianos, 16 mm. film, tape and mime, as theater piece. 13/21 minutes. Piano score $50. Film and tape rental rental $200.

90's, A Calendar Bracelet
for MIDI Grand piano and tone generator, 16 minutes. Rental parts.

Past Present
for piano solo. 8 minutes. Score $30.

Rocker Parts
suite for two pianos, twenty minutes, includes cluster techniques. Score $40.

A Suite: Close Together
for piano solo, ten minutes. Score $20.

Weekend Suite:

Sunday Mornings, Includes cluster technique. 4 minutes. $20.
Sunday Nights, Includes cluster technique.6 minutes. $15.
Saturday Nights, 3 minutes. $15. piano solo. Suite Score $40.

Windy Gestures
four minutes for piano, cluster technique. Score $15.

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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE and INSTRUMENTAL and VOCAL SOLOS:
A Birthday Book
for oboe, baritone and tuba, words by Gertrude Stein, ten minutes. Score and parts $40.

Ain't I a Woman (from the opera Mapping Venus )
for treble voices, mezzo soloist, trumpet and three percussionists. 9 minutes. Score $25. Parts rental/sale.

After Glass
for 10 percussionists, custom instruments home-made, including glass harmonica. 10-12 minutes. Score and parts $60

Celebration of NO
audio art combination of women's voices in 21 languages. for tape and soprano or prepared piano. Score and tape $60.

Dreaming the World
five songs for baritone, four percussionists and piano, thirty minutes. Score $50.

Ecstatic Plain (from the opera Mapping Venus )
1995-1998 for soprano,oboe (optional) and tape. 8 minutes. Score and tape $60.

Hei-Ber-Ny-Pa-To-Sy-Bei-Mos
for flute, soprano and percussion, 10 minutes. Score $40.

Homing
violin and piano. 15 minutes. Score $40.

Hush
for female vocalist and two percussionists. 7 minutes. Score $40.

It All Sounds Like Music To Me
for solo percussionist. Drum kit and 200 shoe boxes. 9 mminutes Score $35.

On the Wind at Scheveningen Beach
1974, for five flutes, 5 minutes. Score $35.

Segments/Junctures
for clarinet, viola and piano. 10 minutes. Score $45.

Tunings
for string quartet. 5 minutes. Score and parts from
Hildegard Music.

Wake Up and Dream
1998, trombone and tape. 8 minutes. Score and tape $40.

Das Wetter, Berlin/The Weather, Berlin (from the opera Mapping Venus)
cabaret scene, piano and trombone improv. Score $40.

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VOCAL and CHORAL:
Lullago
1983, for two vocalists. Ways to make a lullaby. Score $5.

Rest Song
1977, for mixed chorus. 3 minutes. Score distributed by Plymouth Music.

Hands Full
1975, for SSA, tape and drums, 3-4 minutes. Score distributed by Plymouth Music.

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All music is published by Tallapoosa Music, 697 West End Avenue, PH. B, NY, NY 10025, excepting:"Southern Voices for Orchestra and Soprano" and "Blues Fragments" by Henmar Press. "Hands Full" and "Rest Song" are distributed by Plymouth Music. "Tunings" is published by Hildegard Music.

Licensed for Broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne, Germany
Klaus Schoening, Director Studio Akustische Kunst, Appellhofplatz 1, 50667 Koeln, Postschrift 50600 Koeln, Germany. FAX 0221-220-4800. Tel. 0221-220-3169:

Celebration of NO
collage of women saying NO in many languages. 17 minutes.

Dream in Her Mind
one hour radio opera/Hoerspiel for 5 sopranos and 11 actors; with sopranos Melanie Sonnenberg, Cathy Cook, Kathryn Johnson, Carmen Tancredi, and Jennifer Lopez, actresses Wiltrud Fischer, Lizette Amado, Betty Vaughn, Jenna Widden, Jaquelin Chambord, Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome,Valeria Sobol, Dunja Sepcic, Mia Watanabe, Sorrel Hays, Kuang-Yu Fong, on texts by Sorrel Hays, Gertrude Stein, Jessamyn West, Simone de Beauvoir, Bella Akhmadulina, Clarice Lispector and others. About personal consciousness and the naming of interior as well as external landscapes. An audio topography of the spirit.

Echo: Whatchasay/Wie Bitte?
Echoing spaces in many countries, including Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Waimai Canyon, Hawaii, Kønigssee, Bavaria, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, Venetian canals; and digital reflections on these. 40 minutes.

The Hub-Metropolis Atlanta
audio landscape of the American southern city. 55 minutes/45 minutes.

Love in Space
radio opera/Hoerspiel with violin, 2 vocal soloists, English and German mixed choruses, and eight actors. Sona MacDonald and Wiltrud Fischer, and Mary Gemini, leads, Sorrel Hays on Synklavier; text by Sorrel Hays. 44 minutes.

Something (To Do) Doing/Etwas Tun
bilingual Hoerspiel on Sorrel Hays poem with references to Gertrude Stein and John Cage ideas of activity; Janet Lawson, scat vocalist; Lynn Singer and Wiltrud Fischer lead actresses. 24 minutes.

Sound Shadows
for didjeridu, oboe, synth keyboard, dancer as percussionist, video and tape. On echo sound as shadows of the spirit, with Native American chant for the dead, Jane Lind, actress chanter, Brain Charles, oboe and didjeridu, Sorrel Hays direction and keyboards, Anita Bodrogi, dancer. 35 minutes.

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MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE AND IMPROVISATIONAL CONCERTS:
Sensevents
for six instrumental soloists, motorized sculptures, dancers and interactive audience.

Sound Shadows
for oboe, didjeridu, saxaphone, dancer as percussionist, sampling keyboards, tape and video. 35 minutes.

Traveling
a series of musics about journeys for didjeridu, Casio saxophone, Ultraproteus,(optional oboe or voice), and Tibetan singing bowl. Includes: Take Another Back Country Road for electronic saxaphone, Ultraproteus tone generator and DX-7 keyboard. 15-30 minutes; and Traveling to Istanbul for electronic saxophone and keyboard, percussion.

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RADIO PROGRAMS and TAPE MUSIC:
"Echo U.S.A." 1991, hour long audio art exploring aural space, Sorrel Hays, narrator.

"Disarming the World/ Pulling Its Leg" 1986, hour docudrama with music, about women's peace camps featuring Carolyn Kava. Available from Tallapoosa Music for broadcast.

"The Needy Sound", 17 minute audio art document created with voices of autistic children using the Brooklyn College Computer Music Center voice re-synthesis program and the Fairlight sampler, aided by an artist residency from Harvestworks, New York City. Available from Tallapoosa Music for broadcast. $30.



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