Corigliano Quartet
Michael Jinsoo Lim & Alicia Barston, violins Melia Watras, viola Amy Barston, 'cello
Album: Legacy (itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/andrew-waggoner-legacy/id412732456)
2001

Third String Quartet Mov't I by Andrew Waggoner

Performed by the University of Iowa New Music Ensemble 
The Desires of Ghosts for flute, clarinet, violin, 'cello and piano

The Desires of Ghosts was composed in the summer of 1999 for Fred Cohen and the ensemble Currents. The title reflects the rather sudden and unexpected resurfacing, during the work’s composition, of some long-buried memories of the paranormal (whatever that is). The piece had gone without a title through several successive revisions of its opening minutes, and was on its way simply to being labeled “Piece for 5 Players”, when its ghostly character began to assert itself. I was intrigued by the idea of taking a ghost’s-eye view of the world, and found in the music some suggestion of what I felt were the two things the disembodied might want most: love, and the ability to represent themselves, to articulate their feelings, clearly. These, at least, were what I found most pressing in the memories that had once again opened themselves me; it seemed to me that my own encounters with the ineffable had radiated a kind of inchoate warmth, and that my inability wholly to recall them now, after thirty years, was evidence of the spectral need I heard floating in this music.

The Desires of Ghosts II. ...for expression

Performed by cellists Julie Albers, Laura Bontrager, Maureen McDermott, and Caroline Stinson .

Stretched on the Beauty arises from several sources, among them Leaves of Grass, in which Whitman describes himself in a boat, "stretched" on his fancy across the beauty of the bay on which he glides towards a mountain in the distance; most important, however, is my father's vivid recollection of shipping out for Korea from Puget Sound, remaining on deck long after everyone else had gone below, bereft, transfixed, holding Mount Ranier in his gaze until the last possible moment, believing that as long as he could still see it he was still somehow connected to the continent, still somehow home.

Both Stretched on the Beauty and my mini-'cello concerto The Mountain Remains... are studies for a 4-'cello concerto for the ensemble CELLO. 

Stretched on the Beauty by Andrew Waggoner

Concerto for Guitar, movements I, II and III

Kenneth Meyer, guitar
Society for New Music, Cynthia Johnson-Turner, conductor

solo gt., fl., cl., tp., tb., 1 pc., 2 vns., va., vc., db. (13'), commissioned by Paul B. Gridley for Ken Meyer, Ensemble X, and the Society for New Music; premiered on October 14th, 2012 in Ithaca, NY, Steven Stucky conducting; and in Syracuse, October 28th, 2012, by the Society for New Music, Cynthia Johnston-Turner conducting, both with soloist Ken Meyer 

Concerto for Guitar by Andrew Waggoner

Melia Watras, Viola - excerpt from CD 'Viola Solo' (2004) https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/viola-solo/id421255600

Excerpt: Collines parmi étoiles… by Andrew Waggoner

Excerpt: Elle s’enfuit for viola and piano by Andrew Waggoner

Concerto for Violin | Andrew Waggoner 
I. Moderate; Broad, Anxious
II. Faster; Dogged
III. Slower (Solitary; Remembering)
Michael Lim, violin and the Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra 
More information: http://andrewwaggoner.com/2016/03/29/syracus-university-symphony-orchestra-michael-jinsoo-lim-violin/

Andrew Waggoner's Concerto for Violin

From his CD 'Terror and Memory' www.andrewwaggoner.com

Andrew Waggoner's One Kindness

Interviewed by Diane Jones, Composer Andrew Waggoner was joined by Dr. Mark Bowick, Director of the Soft Matter Program at Syracuse University.  Also featured is “Mystere de l’autre” from Andrew's CD, Terror and Memory. 

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