This piece is one of a set of composer Gary Lloyd Noland's  COVIDITTIES Op. 116.

NOSTALETHARGIC RECOMEMBRANCES

Old Berkeley for piano Op. 116, No. 13 by Gary Lloyd Noland

CORONAGOGO HIPSTER SLOB CHIC from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116

Asymptophlegmaticism from 20 Coviditties Op. 116

CONVENTION DEFICIT

COMPOSITIONS BY GARY LLOYD NOLAND

COVIDÉCADENSE for piano Op. 116, No. 4

BEAD-EYED BELLYGODS for piano and other works by Gary Lloyd Noland

This piece was composed in response to the American war of aggression in Iraq in 2003. It was edited and revised in 2020. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ACCESS OF OIL for French horn, violin, cello, percussion & piano Op. 114

Composer Gary Lloyd Noland performs his COVIDÉCADENSE for piano, Op. 116, No. 5 (August 12th, 2020).  For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

COVIDÉCADENSE for piano, Op. 116, No. 5 (Aug. 12, 2020)

For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

NOSTALETHARGIC RECOMEMBRANCES (Aug. 18, 2020)

For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DESECRATION from 20 COVIDITTIES, Op. 116, No. 4  (Aug.20, 2020)

GARY LLOYD NOLAND: "OLD BERKELEY" for piano, performed by the composer. One of my "COVIDITTIES" (Op. 116). This piece was composed in memory of my piano teacher Goodwin Sammel (1925-2020), whom I always thought of as a permanent fixture in Berkeley, California. Whenever visiting Berkeley from Portland I felt secure knowing of Goodwin's formidable musical presence in a house on Francisco Street, just west of Shattuck Avenue. Berkeley will never feel quite the same without him. The landscape of the world has changed dramatically in the past six months. Goodwin passed away in January, before this change occurred. Due to the current pandemic, it may no longer be possible for me to visit the town of my formative years. This piece expresses my sense of being in exile and also my nostalgic longing for a return to an era in history that has all but vanished before our eyes. Despite many historically negative connotations in reference to the emotional condition of nostalgia, I confess to it here without shame.

OLD BERKELEY

OLD BERKELEY for piano.  In memoriam Goodwin Sammel (1925-2020).

This piece is the thirteenth in a set of "24 Postludes" for piano. Performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Gary Lloyd Noland: Bead - Eyed Bellygods Op. 72, No. 13

INVASION OF THE STORMTRUMPERS represents the terrorization of a peaceful municipality by the apostles of oppression.
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INVASION OF THE STORMTRUMPERS from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 12

Those carriers of the coronavirus who are asymptomatic are not always aware of the havoc being wreaked upon their innards or how it potentially effects others, including loved ones, in their immediate vicinity. ASYMPTOPHLEGMATICISM is a psychopathological condition shared by unmasked shedders of the Tr*mp virus who display no outward symptoms of the infection yet don’t give a flying fig if they transmit it to their fellow travelers.
This piece explores the blithe, careless insouciance and complacent, unguarded optimism of many asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus. Imagine that under the skin all the organs of one's body, including the brain, are being silently ravaged by this sneaky and insidious infection, unbeknownst to lackadaisically over-confident spreaders thereof. This is a piece with a message: Be wary of all strangers as well as those nearest and dearest to you! Practice social distancing to the uttermost! You never know where that pesky virus might be lurking, ready to ambush its next unsuspecting prey! For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ASYMPTOPHLEGMATICISM from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 15

CORONAGOGO HIPSTER SLOB CHIC portrays those entitlement kleptocrats who dwindle away their precious time making moronic fashion statements vis-à-vis this unforgiving pestilence.
For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CORONAGOGO HIPSTER SLOB CHIC from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 10

GARY LLOYD NOLAND: "OLD BERKELEY" for piano, performed by the composer. OLD BERKELEY was composed in memory of my piano teacher Goodwin Sammel (1925-2020), whom I thought of as an immutable fixture in my hometown. Whenever visiting Berkeley from Portland I felt secure knowing of the spirit of Goodwin's formidable musical presence in his home on Francisco Street, just west of Shattuck Avenue. Berkeley will never feel quite the same without him. The global landscape has transformed significantly since Goodwin’s departure on January 16th, 2020. Due to the relentless propagation of the Tr*mp virus, it may no longer be possible to revisit the town of my formative years. This piece expresses my feeling of being exiled in conjunction with a wistful longing for a return to an era that has all but vanished in a heartbeat. Despite many historically negative connotations in reference to the emotional condition of nostalgia, I confess to it here without shame.

OLD BERKELEY for piano from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 13

This rendition of PORNOMUSIK by GARY LLOYD NOLAND was completed on August 26th, 2018. The original recording at the piano dates back to ca. 2000-2002. The score consists of twelve pages of lavishly illustrated lurid comix with dialogue balloons containing carefully conceived albeit random texts (illustrated by the composer's  visual artist alter ego LON GAYLORD DYLAN and written by his novelist and playwright alter ego DOLLY GRAY LANDON) that is recited by the performer(s). Any number of musicians is permitted to perform this piece in the configurations of their choosing, which lends considerable flexibility to interpretations thereof. This recording consists of the composer at the piano extemporizing and reciting from the dialogue balloons provided in the score. The illustrations in the score date back to ca. 1971-72, when the artist (composer) was only fourteen years of age and residing in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (where Richard Strauss lived for much of his life until his death in 1949). Every performance of this piece yields completely different results. This performance is one of many possible interpretations.

PORNOMUSIK Op. 48 (2000)—Aug. 26, 2018

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 is my first attempt at a musical portrait. This portrait is of the novelist, essayist, and poet Alexander Theroux (born 1939)—a delicately sculpted, multi-layered comprovisation for piano. I am hoping to do more musical portraits of artists, writers, and performers who emanate powerfully luminous auras in their work. I have four or five other people in mind for this project.

PORTRAIT OF NOVELIST, ESSAYIST & POET ALEXANDER THEROUX for piano

AVALANCHINE JINXES is the seventh in a set of NINE MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES Op. 102. To read more about composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

AVALANCHINE JINXES  from  MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES  Op. 102, No. 7

TWIGGY LITTLE WEENY-BOPPER BENDERS is the sixth in a set of nine MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES Op. 102. To read more about composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

TWIGGY LITTLE WEENY-BOPPER BENDERS from  MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES  Op. 102, No. 5

CREATURE DISCOMFORTS is the sixth in a set of nine MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES Op. 102. To read more about composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CREATURE DISCOMFORTS from  MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES  Op. 102, No. 3

ZOMBO QUACKO is the ninth in a set of NINE MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES Op. 102. To read more about composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ZOMBO QUACKO from NINE MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES Op. 102, No. 9

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs RUSSELL STREET RAG Op. 5 by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Composed when I was seventeen (1974), this piece is named after one of the streets I grew up on in Berkeley. At the time I wrote this piece the renowned historian Peter Robert Lamont Brown (who is regarded as the inventor of the field of Late Antiquity) was staying in the adjacent room of our house. He was out the door early every morning to the library and returned late at night after doing full days of research in his areas of expertise. I imagine that my banging this piece out on the piano (which was positioned against the wall adjacent to his room) must have driven him nuts whenever he happened to be in his room. During the year or so he stayed with us, I was impressed by the fact that he had a command of fourteen languages. I just read now that, over the years, he has picked up another twelve languages, bringing the total to 26 (!). I have rarely met such a dedicated scholar. Unbeknownst to Professor Brown, my having had the opportunity to witness, as an impressionable teenager, his daily routines taught me to adopt (or, at very least, to attempt to adopt) a similar work ethic in my composing, though, what with the MacArthur Fellowship and all the other accolades Brown has received over the years, I imagine his life is considerably less hindered by the kinds of distractions occasioned by a wholesale lack of interest in, and lack of support for, those dedicated to the art of music-making.

RUSSELL STREET RAG for piano Op. 5

CONVENTION DEFICIT is the twentieth in a set of 24 INTERLUDES for piano. Performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CONVENTION DEFICIT for piano Op. 71, No. 20 from 24 INTERLUDES

This is a setting of Alexander Theroux's poem THE CABARET OF THERESIENSTADT for soprano & piano by composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND.

THE CABARET OF THERESIENSTADT (setting of poem by ALEXANDER THEROUX) for soprano & piano

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

NOSTALETHARGIC RECOMEMBRANCES (Aug. 18, 2020)

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer