"Souvenirs" is scored for flute, violin, viola, and cello and is cast in three movements.  The first and third movements take a fragment another piece of music as a seed around which I compose another piece of music.  Don't be fooled, the "source" piece is not obvious.  The middle movement uses a pattern of permutations based on "Queneau numbers" to structure phrase lengths.  

"Souvenirs" was commissioned by Electric Earth Concerts and was premiered by Laura Gilbert (fl), Nicholas DiEugenion (vln), Jonathan Bagg (vla), and Raman Ramakrishnan (cello).

"Souvenirs" for Flute Quartet

Season's Greetings to family, friends, and planetary citizens.

© Copyright 2014

A Christmas Medley

Alex Burtzos' pOwer trIo 

saxophone, Katherine Weintraub
percussion, Kevin von Kampen
piano, Eunmi Ko

from the Iceberg New Music Institute

pOwer trIo

Still Something

Rough mix
Recorded in 2012 at Hitching Post Studios, Bell Canyon, CA

MG album ROUGH1

Mike Garson: Contrapunctus (performed by Danny Holt)

Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit, No.1 "Ondine"

"Double Clutch" for solo harp (4:15). Premiered by Sandrine Chatron, Argenteuil, France (Jan. 2020). Midi version

Double Clutch

Snap Two for 2 Pianos - David LIpten, Composer; written for the Kim-Tollefsen Duo (2020)

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Snap Two

Recorded in Falmouth, ME on November 2, 2019 during Constellation's New-England Tour.

Henry Koch
Brennan Runzo
Ryan Townsend Strand
Matthew Cummings
Damon Cole
Kyle Sackett
Matthew Cramer
Matthew Brennan
Will Myers

Luceat Eis - Timothy C. Takach

"Snap" for Orchestra; originally "Snap" for piano from "Show of Hands," winner of the 2020 Jeffrey Jacobs Piano Composition Award

Snap for Orchestra

Wind on the Island

The wind is a horse:
hear how he runs
through the sea, through the sky.

He wants to take me: listen
how he roves the world
to take me far away.

Hide me in your arms
just for this night,
while the rain breaks
against sea and earth
its innumerable mouth.

Listen how the wind
calls to me galloping
to take me far away.

With your brow on my brow,
with your mouth on my mouth,
our bodies tied
to the love that consumes us,
let the wind pass
and not take me away.

Let the wind rush
crowned with foam,
let it call to me and seek me
galloping in the shadow,
while I, sunk
beneath your  big eyes,
just for this night
shall rest, my love.                                                                                         

Poem by Pablo Neruda                                                     
English translation by Donald D. Walsh
Performed by the Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale (directed by Dirk Garner) in 2006.

Wind on the Island

David Lipten is a composer of contemporary concert music. His recordings are available on iTunes and Amazon.com. Scores are available at https://www.universaledition.com/lipten and at https://composers.com/collections/david-lipten. For more information, please see www.dlipten.com