Name: ALLEGRO for piano Op. 8, No. 1 by Gary Lloyd Noland, composer in HARMONIOUS WEDLOCK
Duration: 6 min 42 s
Description: Pianist RANDALL HODGKINSON performs ALLEGRO Op. 8, No. 1 from SIX AND A HALF PIECES FOR PIANO by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. This piece was recorded at the home of Paul Matisse (grandson of Henri Matisse and stepson of Marcel Duchamp) in Groton, just outside of Boston in November, 1987. For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

These pieces are very beautiful and lyrical Gary! Now and then, I am "criticized" from other composers or musicians, asking me why I compose music that sometimes sounds like it was written 200 years ago. Good music is good music, and I write down what I hear in my head, whether it "sounds" like a piece of music from the 1700's, 1800's, 1900's or today. Also, frankly and for the most part, I don't believe most of the composers today could hold a candle to most of our past masters. When someone is served a good bowl of soup or stew, and then discover the recipe is 200 years old, does it make the soup less tasteful or palatable? I think not, and I rest my case!  I hope you are staying safe and healthy....Peace! 🎼❤️

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

HARMONIOUS WEDLOCK

Bass Clarinetist Sauro Berti and Contrabassoonist Fabio Morbidelli perform DOG DUO, Op. 66 (arr. Sauro Berti) by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Sauro Berti, bass clarinetist of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, has collaborated with the most important Italian orchestras (Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, RAI National Orchestra), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla. He has played under G.Prêtre, R.Chailly, M.W.Chung, R.Muti, W.Sawallisch, V.Gergiev, L.Maazel, P.Boulez, and Z.Mehta. He has also participated in the DVD recording of Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 “Gran Partita” under M. Muti. Berti was a soloist at the Tokyo ClarinetFest 2008, the last five ClarinetFest 2009-2013 (Porto, Austin, Los Angeles, Lincoln, Assisi), the 2nd Costa Rica Festival, the 1st and 2nd Peruvian Congreso Latinoamericanos, the 5th “Congreso de Madrid,” the Festival Guimaraes 2012, and the 3rd Guatemala Festival 2013. In 2009 he obtained his conducting diploma with D.Renzetti. He has published Venti Studi per Clarinetto Basso, Tuning for winds (Suvini Zerboni), his version of V. Bucchi’s concerto and the album Suggestions with N. Fujiya (Edipan).

Berti plays on Buffet Crampon instruments and is a Rico Artist.

Fabio Morbidelli is an orchestra musician at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

DOG DUO (arr. Sauro Berti) for bass clarinet & contrabassoon, Op. 66

Pianist MYRNA SETIAWAN performs GOLDEN GATE RAG, Op. 123 (1974, revised 2021) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. This piece is dedicated to the memory of pianist/composer VICTOR STEINHARDT (1943-2021).

GOLDEN GATE RAG (Op. 123), Myrna Setiawan, piano

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs WHIPPING THE NIGHT ORGASTIC, Op. 143, No. 6, by Gary Lloyd Noland (January 25th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WHIPPING THE NIGHT ORGASTIC, Op. 143, No. 6

Pianist Myrna Setiawan performs ETUDE, Op. 1, No. 10 (1983) by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ETUDE for piano, Op. 1, No. 10; Myrna Setiawan, piano

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs HARMONIOUS WEDLOCK, Op. 143, No. 2, by Gary Lloyd Noland (February 3rd, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HARMONIOUS WEDLOCK, Op. 143, No. 2

ARISTOBOMBASTIC TRIPE DREAM by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 30th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ARISTOBOMBASTIC TRIPE DREAM

MIDNIGHT VACUUM CLEANING PHRENZY by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 30th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

MIDNIGHT VACUUM CLEANING PHRENZY

FRANTICALLY STRIVING TO FEEL OPTIMISTIC by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FRANTICALLY STRIVING TO FEEL  OPTIMISTIC

GAUNTLET JAUNT by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 6th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

GAUNTLET JAUNT

VISPROINTIAMO No. 11 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 11 for piano

A HOST OF CONFLICTING AGENDAS by Gary Lloyd Noland. To read more about the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A HOST OF CONFLICTING AGENDAS

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

PROMENADING PLUTOCRATIC MORONS

AMBIENT MUSIC FOR NEUROTICS by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

AMBIENT MUSIC FOR NEUROTICS

DEI MADRIGAL for mixed choir by Gary Lloyd Noland (Sept. 18th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

DEI MADRIGAL for mixed choir

F*CK THE SYSTEM! for mixed choir, two pianos, and objects that can be hit, thrown & banged by Gary Lloyd Noland (September 21st, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

F*CK THE SYSTEM! for mixed choir, two pianos, and objects that can be hit, thrown & banged

Pianist RANDALL HODGKINSON performs ALLEGRO Op. 8, No. 1 from SIX AND A HALF PIECES FOR PIANO by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. This piece was recorded at the home of Paul Matisse (grandson of Henri Matisse and stepson of Marcel Duchamp) in Groton, just outside of Boston in November, 1987. For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ALLEGRO for piano Op. 8, No. 1

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

ALLEGRO for piano Op. 8, No. 1

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