Pamela J. Marshall
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Anthropology Variations for clarinet, violin, pian Anthropology Variations for clarinet, violin, pian
Variations: 1. Theme: Gestures, 2. Mysteries, 3. Viewpoints, 4. Contemplation, 5. Fantasies, 6. Coda: Ephemera. Alternate parts for flute, and for viola or cello instead of violin. Contact the composer at spindrift.com for the score.
Nature-Portugal-Blue-fronted parakeets Nature-Portugal-Blue-fronted parakeets
The park at Quinta Real was an 18th-century playground for royalty, with formal gardens and orchards now gone a little wild. The fields are filled with spring wildflowers in March. The noisy flock of blue-fronted parakeets are eating seeds.
Nature-Portugal Caxias at dawn Nature-Portugal Caxias at dawn
At dawn the traffic is less and the birds are many in March. Blackbirds, greenfinches, a crow, collared doves, blue tit, wren, and black redstart are among the birds singing in the gardens near our apartment in Caxias, Portugal.
Birding in Winter Birding in Winter
A cappella setting of a poem by Susan Edwards Richmond. Evocative imagery of being ready to wait in the cold to see birds. Can the music convey to a non-birder the special thrill of sighting birds in challenging conditions?
A Bequest (from The Future of Life cantata) A Bequest (from The Future of Life cantata)
Middlesex Community College faculty concert for the climate change interdisciplinary weekend. Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta, piano; Anna Ward, soprano; Orlando Cela, flute; Robert Bekkers, guitar. Text adapted from E.O. Wilson's The Future of Life.
Grand Grand Mother is returning Grand Grand Mother is returning
Last movement from my Future of Life cantata, arranged for SATB and piano (minus the trombone), setting a poem by Judy Grahn. Performed by Triad: Boston's Choral Collective.
Bee-Song Bee-Song
A setting of Anne Baring's poem, The Song, a prayer-like expression of gratitude to the hive, Mother Earth, who nourishes and protects us. Performed by Triad: Boston's Choral Collective.
Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me
Poem by Sarah Getty. Henning Ensemble: Sudie Marcuse & Amanda Sindel-Keswick, vocals; Carol Epple, flute; Peter H. Bloom, alto flute; Ellen Allen, violin; Pamela Marshall, horn; Karl Henning, conductor. Holy Trinity Methodist, Danvers, MA Nov 9, 2019
Reflections I Reflections I
Atmospheric and hypnotic melody that grows more intense, with rich strings and thick bass clarinet, until it evaporates into a toy-piano ending.
Examinate Variations: 1. Theme Examinate Variations: 1. Theme
Flute-cello duo: Ashley Addington, flute and Rachel Arnold, cello. Theme plus 6 variations, manipulated in offbeat ways.
Examinate Variations: 7. Slinky Examinate Variations: 7. Slinky
Flute-cello duo: Ashley Addington, flute and Rachel Arnold, cello. Slinky is the final variation, somewhat jazzy.
Wanderer for brass quintet Wanderer for brass quintet
Performance by Brass Domain: Daniel Duncan, Karen Muenzinger, trumpets; Shelagh Abate, horn; Walter Bostian, trombone; Michael S. Milnarik, tuba. Recorded in 2001. www.spindrift.com
Turbulient for solo clarinet Turbulient for solo clarinet
The clarinet emerges from silence, varying the opening pitch with microtones. You'll also hear cascades of arpeggios and melodic multiphonics.
Resonances Resonances
for alto sax, trumpet, 2 trombones, percussion. Perofrmed on a Just In Time Composers concert in 1999. Dan Duncan, trumpet; Greg Ridlington, alto sax; Richard Begel, Michael Schneider, trombones; Gary Wallen, percussion
Black Bear Dance Black Bear Dance
Clarinet ensemble with drum rhythms passed around the group. Jazzy in a deliberate, bear-stomping way. Virtual orchestra sounds.
Elusive Sleep Elusive Sleep
For cello and piano. Available on the CD "Just In Time Now and Then" from Living Artist Recordings. Sheet music available at www.spindrift.com. Performed by Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello and Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta, piano.
Soliloquy Soliloquy
A short rhapsodic piece for solo cello, performed by Emmanuel Feldman
Truth Becoming for string quartet Truth Becoming for string quartet
Performed by the Arden Quartet on a Just In Time Composers concert in 2003.
Communing with Birds Communing with Birds
For unaccompanied flute, performed by Susan Jackson. Sheet music available at www.spindrift.com. Update Feb 2015: Available on Ravello Records: http://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr7901/
High Flight for flute High Flight for flute
For unaccompanied flute, performed by Jessi Rosinski. The music is a response to the poem High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, WWII aviator whose words have become a hymn for pilots and astronauts. Sheet music available at www.spindrift.com.
