Live performance by Thomas Giles and the Bergamot Quartet of Krysztof Penderecki's exquisite Clarinet Quartet 
(version for saxophone & strings) at:

GHOSTLIGHT
October 28, 2022
Carroll Hall
New York, NY

Clarinet Quartet Mvt 4, by Krzysztof Penderecki

Push it to the limit cool Wolf you are the best and you can do everything https://www.samsung.com

sung at the 11/4/23 rounds party

Cool Wolf (Push It To The Limit)

Joan Martí-Frasquier, baritones 1 & 2

Read more about this work here: https://joanmf.com/black-marc-mellits/

Find out more about the classical/contemporary repertoire for baritone saxophone on the blog from my website: joanmf.com/jmf-blog/

BLACK (2008/11) for Two Baritone Saxophones. Marc Mellits

Selected numbers from a chamber opera in 4 scenes, written by Lili Tobias and Rebecca Regan. Performed on February 10th, 2024 in Appel Hall at Hunter College.


Synopsis

Apple Of My Eye is set in a near-future defined by climate change. Forty years prior, apples were struck by a climate-driven blight that drove them extinct. Now, a biologist has engineered the apple back to life, and the story centers on a mother and child waiting on line to obtain one of the first new apples. As the hours drag on and worsening circumstances pressure them to give up and leave, the mother attempts to rationalize her deep desire for an apple. The opera explores personal emotions in the midst of a changing world and the intensity with which we can care about mundane things.


Musicians

Music by Lili Tobias
Words by Rebecca Regan

Conducted by Bryan Lin

Mom: Siobhán Sterrett, baritone
Kid: Hannah Cai Sobel, soprano
Dr. Gina Selewski: Alexa Letourneau, tenor

Chorus: Grace Tyson, Francesca Lionetta, Crys/ta Song, Alexa Letourneau, Simon Moore, Gene Volel-Witkowski, Nathaniel Ziv Stern

Lara Lewison, violin
Jacob Rollins, viola 1
Sathvi Ramaseshan, viola 2
Danielle Lee, cello

Momologue

Three hours go by…

An Interview with Dr. Gina Selewski

Grandmother’s Apple Tree

performed by the Manhattan Choral Ensemble at their New Music for New York concert, 2/24/2024

The Last Thoughts of a Pigeon Dying on Riverside Drive between 100th and 101st Street

Inspired by the 5/8/20 Twitter drama involving ex Fox host Todd Starnes and his famous attempt to buy a toaster
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Todd
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I dropped by
Department hellhole
Won’t let you in
Unless you wear a mask
I just want a fucking toaster
What the hell is all this shit?

America has been destroyed
I don’t want this

Mandatory hand sanitizer
Squirt bottle violation
One way aisles
No deviation
Stern lectures from all the staff

America has been destroyed
I don’t want this

Todd

For flute and soprano saxophone.  Composed for Duo Vercio; premiered at the 42nd Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, Fairfax, VA, January 11, 2020.

Lili Tobias:  Stars Zone (2019) for flute and soprano saxophone

Flute/saxophone duo based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.

Lili Tobias: Stars Zone (2019) for flute and soprano saxophone

Duo Vercio

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