THREE HERRICK SONGS, Op. 97. Music by Gary Lloyd Noland. Poems by Robert Herrick. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

THREE HERRICK SONGS for soprano, tenor & piano, Op. 97

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs ALCOHOLIDAY GASSERS by Gary Lloyd Noland (December 21st, 2024). HAPPY HOLIDAYS! For more information on the composer, go to: garynolandcomposer.com

ALCOHOLIDAY GASSERS

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs: PREACHING TO THE CLOWN CHOIR: AN INAUGURATION OF IMPENETRABLE DUNCES by Gary Lloyd Noland (December 29th, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PREACHING TO THE CLOWN CHOIR: AN INAUGURATION OF IMPENETRABLE DUNCES

GATEAU for piano

VISPROINTIAMO No. 4 for piano, composed & performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO No. 4 for piano

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs UNREQUITED INDIFFÉRENCE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

UNREQUITED INDIFFÉRENCE

GARY LLOYD NOLAND performs his UNFORSAKEN OBSESSIONS for piano (Op. 131, No. 8). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

UNFORSAKEN  OBSESSIONS for piano (Op. 131, No. 8)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs OPIUM DREAM (Op. 131, No. 6) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

OPIUM DREAM (Op. 131, No. 6)

Pianist MARINA PIEROVA performs BAGATELLE, Op. 1, No. 2 (1983) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BAGATELLE for piano, Op.1  No.2 (1983)

INTERMEZZO MOCKUP

Gary Lloyd Noland, piano, performs RIBZUBA SHTUPPER from his SIXTY LURID ALBUMBLATTS, Op. 88, No. 19 (June 12th, 2023). For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

RIBZUBA SHTUPPER from SIXTY LURID ALBUMBLATTS, Op. 88, No. 19

EARTH WELLNESS OVERTURE for orchestra, Op. 149, by Gary Lloyd Noland (September 20th, 2023): Initial unveiling of computer generated performance from first draft of score. Parts not yet ready at this point in time. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

EARTH WELLNESS OVERTURE for orchestra, Op. 149

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs UNFEIGNED GUILT by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

UNFEIGNED GUILT

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs I HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE EVER GOT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, Op. 155, No. 5, by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE EVER GOT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, Op. 155, No. 5

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs ANGST BUFFET, Op. 155, No. 4, by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ANGST BUFFET, Op. 155, No. 4

Soprano & alto Lilian Tong and pianist Maryna Buksha perform HYMN OF VISION; poem by Alexander Theroux; music by Gary Lloyd Noland. I was recently honored to be asked by the great novelist/poet/essayist Alexander Theroux to set this poem to music. Upon hearing it, Alexander wrote me to describe it as: "Stately majestic, elegant in every way."

Poem HYMN OF VISION by Alexander Theroux:

Making me see He took time to see me,
along with helping me feel I was seen,
that I need from His sight never to flee,
as a poor redeemed sinner, now clean,
I could look upon myself by His mercy
with a blessed insight to see I could be
viewed no longer a lost soul unworthy
who though once a slave was now free.

For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

For more information on Alexander Theroux, Google his name. Also, go to Amazon to order his books.

Poem copyright © 2023 by Alexander Theroux; music copyright © 2024 by Gary Lloyd Noland

HYMN OF VISION for soprano, alto, and piano, Op. 153; poem by Alexander Theroux

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs NO WORRIES! EVERYTHING WILL BE JUST FINE! by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 8th, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

NO WORRIES! EVERYTHING WILL BE JUST FINE!

SMALL-HOUR BROODINGS for piano by Gary Lloyd Noland, performed by the composer. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SMALL-HOUR BROODINGS for piano

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs FALLOUT SHELTER WALTZ by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 8th, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FALLOUT SHELTER WALTZ

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs GEBET UM VERGEBUNG by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 26th, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

GEBET UM VERGEBUNG

Composer Gary Lloyd Noland performs his OBTORTIONS for piano (August 29th, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

OBTORTIONS for piano

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs HOT-TO-TROT HE GOATS IN THE DOG MONTHS OF GLOOM by Gary Lloyd Noland (September 21st, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HOT-TO-TROT HE GOATS IN THE DOG MONTHS OF GLOOM

Soprano Hayley Boggs, Tenor Jonathan Matthews, and pianist Maryna Buksha perform "The Vision," the first of THREE HERRICK SONGS by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 97, No. 1 (2010). The poems set are by Robert Herrick. For more information on the composer,

THE VISION for soprano, tenor, and piano (Op. 97, No. 1), poem by Robert Herrick

Soprano Hayley Boggs, tenor Jonathan Matthews, and pianist Maryna Buksha perform "Show Me Thy Feet," the second of THREE HERRICK SONGS by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 97, No. 2 (2010). Poem by Robert Herrick. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SHOW ME THY FEET for soprano, tenor & piano, Op. 97, No. 2; poem by Robert Herrick

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs A LITTLE NURSERY MUSIC by Gary Lloyd Noland (October 2nd, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A LITTLE NURSERY MUSIC

Soprano Hayley Boggs, Tenor Jonathan Matthews, and pianist Maryna Buksha perform WHEN I THY PARTS RUN O'ER. Music by Gary Lloyd Noland (Op. 97, No. 3); poem by Robert Herrick. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WHEN I THY PARTS RUN O'ER for soprano, tenor, and piano, Op. 97, No. 3; poem by Robert Herrick

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs AWARDS, BADGES, AND CONTRIBUTION POINTS by Gary Lloyd Noland (November 9th, 2024). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: AWARDS, BADGES, AND CONTRIBUTION POINTS

AWARDS, BADGES, AND CONTRIBUTION POINTS

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs COCKEYED YULETIDE by Gary Lloyd Noland (December 14th, 2024). Happy Holidays!

COCKEYED YULETIDE

The Pimpleton Procrasturbtion Ensemble performs ALCOHOLIDAY GASSERS by Gary Lloyd Noland (December 21st, 2024). HAPPY HOLIDAYS! For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs PREACHING TO THE CLOWN CHOIR: AN INAUGURATION OF IMPENETRABLE DUNCES by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website.

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs HOLE-IN-THE-GROUND FIGMENTS by Gary Lloyd Noland (January 3rd, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HOLE-IN-THE-GROUND FIGMENTS

Composer Gary Lloyd Noland performs his GATEAU for piano. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PROVIMP for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 5, 2025)

PROVIMP for piano

QUARTET

VISPROINTIAMO for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynoaldncomposer.ocm

VISPROINTIAMO for piano

Excerpt from THE ARTS COUNCIL, Chapter 29, narrated, composed, written, and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. This novel of ca. 150,000 words is slated for release in the fall of 2025 under the pseudonym Dolly Gray Landon. For more information on the composer and author, please visit his website at: garynolandcompoer. com

THE ARTS COUNCIL: Excerpt from Chapter 29

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 2 for piano performed and composed by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 7th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.ocm

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 2 for piano

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 3 for piano

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 4 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 8th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his wevbsite at: nolandgarycomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 4 for piano

TOOTHFUL GENTILITIES by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

TOOTHFUL GENTILITIES

VISPROINTIAMO No. 5 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO No. 5 for piano

GARY LLOYD NOLAND'S MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF FRENCH-ITALIAN MEZZO-SOPRANO LEA DESANDRE Op. 117, No. 8, performed by the FIFTH SELF ENSEMBLE, featuring pianist GARY LLOYD NOLAND, oboist DOLLY GRAY LANDON, French hornist LON GAYLORD DYLAN, ghuzengist DARNOLD OLLY YANG, and double-bassist ORLAN DOY GLANDLY. 

Having attended a recital of musical portraits by Virgil Thomson in Boston back in the 1980s (with the composer present, whom I briefly met), I have decided to embark upon a similar pilgrimage. This piece is a delicately sculpted, multi-layered comprovisation and is the eighth in a series of such musical portraits of artists, writers, and performers who emanate powerfully luminous auras in their work, which thus far includes portraits of the American novelist, essayist, and poet Alexander Theroux, American playwright David Hirson, South African composer/conductor Michael Rosenzweig, English Writer Will Self, French novelist, essayist, poet, actor, filmmaker, and singer Michel Houellebecq, American feminist academic and social critic Camille Paglia, and German operatic tenor and composer Daniel Behle.

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF FRENCH-ITALIAN MEZZO-SOPRANO LEA DESANDRE Op. 117, No. 8

Resides in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Berkeley, CA. Born in Seattle.  PhD, Harvard. “Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century.”—JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO, “...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits.”—ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer, "...a fleet-fingered, ebullient performer ... bright, witty and engaging.”—CHRISTIAN CAREY, SPLENDID MAGAZINE, “...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland’s music and so I would urge you to try it.” —ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, “...set in a dizzying harmonic language that loops uncontrollably through a wide-ranging gamut of possible and impossible tonalities ... The general effect is like watching wet paintings of 19th Century musical memorabilia drip into frazzled 21st Century oblivion...” —ALLEN GIMBEL, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “Mr. Noland writes as a ‘time traveler’ in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable. Listen!”—DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, “...mind-bending spiraling of focus which is truly breathtaking ... spectacular...”—CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, composer, sound poet & radio producer, “I'm amazed at your harmonic skill. Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else—except yours truly—certainly not from your generation. It falls somewhere between Strauss and Mahler. Especially like how you are able to slip in and out from the tonal to the atonal—or near atonal...”—GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “...court jester to the classical establishment...”—PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...florid and juicy...” —RICHARD BUELL, THE BOSTON GLOBE, “...an incredible aural web ... a great ostinato of American kitsch. Sul pont never sounded so good.”—RUSSELL STEINBERG, composer, conductor of the LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA, “...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music: you use certain elements from the 19th century and from jazz, etc., and just at the moment when I am about to say, OK, what else is new?, you do a number of things, such as speeding up, becoming wildly dissonant, modulating to a distant continent, stopping completely and throwing some kind of total surprise ... you seem to know exactly when to do what and how much. I don’t know anybody else who can do it!” —ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “... remarkable stuff...”
—MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist, composer, actor & author, “...a loony composer from Oregon...” —MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA, “Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism ... Zany waltzes, ragtime riffs, chorales, toccatas, and much else romp and tear through these depictions of superheroes and villains from his ‘chamber novels’; other pieces spoof serial music ... to grand operas ... and Jewish guilt.” —JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...Paranoid Ravel...”—ALEX DUNN, KZSU FM90.3, Stanford, CA, “...It’s a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else’s, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it’s intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.” —ROCKY LEPLIN, THE BERKELEY VOICE

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