Electro-Sky

These cues accompanied a short acting project based on Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." 



Stanley

New Orleans in the Rain

With this one, I was going for something that could be in a movie like "Elf" or "Daddy Day Care." Maybe a scene of increasing comedic mayhem.  

The title is from a random word generator.

Going Logical

I've always liked the folk song "The Water Is Wide" and one day in January 2015 I felt inspired to write a choral arrangement of it. On that first day I arranged about a minute of the song for treble choir, but I didn't have a venue for the piece, so I just put it in my "ideas" file folder to hang onto for later.

This past fall, I started working as a rehearsal accompanist for the Vassar College Women's Chorus ("WoCo") and it occurred to me that they would sound great singing "The Water Is Wide." I talked to the choir director, Christine Howlett, about arranging the song for WoCo, and she graciously agreed to perform it. I went home and finished the piece over winter break, and the chorus performed it in concert at the end of April.

In this arrangement, I worked on capturing the joy, pain, and uncertainty in the deceptively simple lyrics. I hope you enjoy it.  

The Water Is Wide (live recording)

Written for my composition class at Vassar College. 

1st violin - Martha Caplin
2nd violin - Rachel Handman
Viola - Marka Gustavsson
Cello - Jeanette Stenson

Look, Mom! A String Quartet!

A short solo piano arrangement of Miles Davis' "Four."

Thanks to Flickr user Jukka Zitting for the image!
https://flic.kr/p/7h4WDV

Four

Every once in a while I'll open up Garageband and play around. This is the snippet I came up with most recently.

The image is from Brett Holt, used with a Creative Commons license. Thanks Brett! https://flic.kr/p/8WFGuv

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