SHOVE AT FIRST SLIGHT

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs OUT WITH THE BOYS FOR CAMPARIS & HAVANAS AT THE CINCO LOUNGE IN LISBON by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

OUT WITH THE BOYS FOR CAMPARIS & HAVANAS AT THE CINCO LOUNGE IN LISBON

BEHIND-THE-SCENE SHANANTICS AT THE SUNDAY MORNING SOAPBOX

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs MELANDCHOLY DEATHBED FUNNIES by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 9th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

MELANCHOLY DEATHBED FUNNIES

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs DEAD FLOWER WALTZ by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 10th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

DEAD FLOWER WALTZ

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs OPAQUE EPHEMERALITIES by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 13th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

OPAQUE EPHEMERALITIES

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform "Dropping Fleas Into a Glass of Water." Poem by Alexander Theroux; music by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 112.

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Dropping Fleas into a Glass of Water":

Wet fleas are three-fourths dead.
The way they despair is, oddly,
by activity. I find the way sunshine
illuminates their last agonies
by adding irony to pain the way
when desperately we try to pray
in struggling to save ourselves
our imprecations quickly take on
disbelief so used we are to God's
suffocating silence as we drown.
Their minuscule bagpipe bodies
brown and tiny as tobacco flakes
with snouts like Bosch's horns
as crazily they scissorleg and
thrash, bite for air, eat water
the way leaves gulp red light,
experience with each abdominal
exertion in the champagne night
of frying, sizzling bubbles
the dreadful fact that jumping
does not work, just as prayer reaching
for a similar height does not
in our despair. As to beseeching,
kicking, thrashing, madly humping
fleas in water likewise is our lot.

For VP Richard Cheney
and all monsters everywhere who advocate
and delight in torture.

Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux
Permission to set this poem has been granted by the author.

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

DROPPING FLEAS INTO A GLASS OF WATER for soprano & piano; poem by Alexander Theroux

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Alexander Theroux's poem "Autobiography," Op. 108. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Autobiography":

My default reflex is to disappear.
My defect reflex is to default.
My appearance is to reflect default.
My despair appearance is to defect.
My reflex is to appear to default.
My reappearance is to reflect defect.
My refault defect is to reappear.
My defect reappearance is to despair.

Music by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 108
Poem by Alexander Theroux

Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux 
Permission to set this poem has been granted by the author.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY for soprano & piano, Op. 108; poem by Alexander Theroux

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs CAFÉ OF UNEARTHLY SORROWS & AFFLICTIONS by Gary Lloyd Noland (April 26th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

CAFÉ OF UNEARTHLY SORROWS & AFFLICTIONS

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs PRANCING THRU THE DRECK by Gary Lloyd Noland (aka Orlan Doy Glandly, Darnold Olly Yang, Lon Gaylord Dylan, Dolly Gray Landon & Arnold Day Longly), April 26th, 2023. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PRANCING THRU THE DRECK

The New Quartet performs ALSO SPRACH MARGINMAN From STRING QUARTET NO. 2, Op. 32, No. 10 (1993)by Gary Lloyd Noland. This performance took place on a Seventh Species concert under the umbrella of the University of Oregon’s Music Today Festival at The Unitarian Church in Eugene, Oregon on April 22nd, 1995.

ALSO SPRACH MARGINMAN From STRING QUARTET NO. 2, Op. 32, No. 10 (1993)

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs EINE KLEINE HORRORMUSIK by Gary Lloyd Noland (April 28th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

EINE KLEINE HORRORMUSIK

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs SHOVE AT FIRST SLIGHT by Gary Lloyd Noland (April 29th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs OUT WITH THE BOYS FOR CAMPARIS & HAVANAS AT THE CINCO LOUNGE IN LISBON by Gary Lloyd Noland (April 30th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs BEHIND-THE-SCENE SHENANTICS AT THE SUNDAY MORNING SOAPBOX by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 2nd, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BEHIND-THE-SCENE SHENANTICS AT THE SUNDAY MORNING SOAPBOX

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs HERR DOKTOR SQUIRCLE'S STUPOCALYPTIC DING-DONG CART MAKES ITS ROUNDS ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF THE MOUNT SCHRECKLICHKEIT PUZZLE FACTORY by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 5th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HERR DOKTOR SQUIRCLE'S STUPOCALYPTIC DING-DONG CART MAKES ITS ROUNDS ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF THE…

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs MELANCHOLY DEATHBED FUNNIES by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 9th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform "Dropping Fleas Into a Glass of Water." Poem by Alexander Theroux; music by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 112.

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Dropping Fleas into a Glass of Water":

Wet fleas are three-fourths dead.
The way they despair is, oddly,
by activity. I find the way sunshine
illuminates their last agonies
by adding irony to pain the way
when desperately we try to pray
in struggling to save ourselves
our imprecations quickly take on
disbelief so used we are to God's
suffocating silence as we drown.
Their minuscule bagpipe bodies
brown and tiny as tobacco flakes
with snouts like Bosch's horns
as crazily they scissorleg and
thrash, bite for air, eat water
the way leaves gulp red light,
experience with each abdominal
exertion in the champagne night
of frying, sizzling bubbles
the dreadful fact that jumping
does not work, just as prayer reaching
for a similar height does not
in our despair. As to beseeching,
kicking, thrashing, madly humping
fleas in water likewise is our lot.

For VP Richard Cheney
and all monsters everywhere who advocate
and delight in torture.

Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux 
Permission to set this poem has been granted by the author.

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

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

ALSO SPRACH MARGINMAN From STRING QUARTET NO. 2, Op. 32, No. 10 (1993)

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer