Amerikan Bozo Dance for string quartet and other compositions by Gary Lloyd Noland

INDEX DEMENTIA from 24 POSTLUDES for piano Op. 72, No. 11 performed by the composer. This piece was dedicated to Lukas Foss. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

INDEX DEMENTIA for piano Op. 72, No. 11

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

BIG TIME SMALLSHOT

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs SMARTY BLOOPERS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (March 22, 2021). Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. To read more about GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

SMARTY BLOOPERS

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs DEATH, TAXES & JUNK MAIL by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, DARNOLD OLLY YANG and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at:
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DEATH, TAXES & JUNK MAIL

HIKIKOMORI - GO - ROUND by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at:

HIKIKOMORI - GO - ROUND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

EXPIRED LOVE LETTER by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

EXPIRED LOVE LETTER

FINAL TWIGGLE JIG by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at:

FINAL TWIGGLE JIG

DOLDRUMATIC MUMBLE GRUMBLE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DOLDRUMATIC MUMBLE GRUMBLE

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs HIDDEN HEART SHRAPNEL by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

HIDDEN HEART SHRAPNEL

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs CANDY CANES & COLONOSCOPIES by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CANDY CANES & COLONOSCOPIES

Adagietto Doloroso in G Minor for piano: in memoriam Frederic Rzewski (Op. 121). Having just learned of the death of composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski this morning (26 June, 2021), I felt strongly that this piece I was in the process of composing (with only a few finishing touches needed before the score goes to press) would act as a suitable homage to this titan among composers, who influenced so many of us, and whom I had the good fortune of meeting on a couple of occasions back in the early 1990s after hearing him perform his own compositions on a couple of concerts in the Bay Area. His music will not be forgotten and his legacy will live on. He is, arguably, one of the most important composers for the piano of the past fifty years. Rest in peace, Frederic Rzewski! You were one of the great musicians of your time! For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Adagietto Doloroso in G Minor for piano: in memoriam Frederic Rzewski

Adagietto Doloroso in G Minor for piano: in memoriam Frederic Rzewski (Op. 121). Having just learned of the death of composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski this morning (26 June, 2021), I felt strongly that this piece I was in the process of composing (with only a few finishing touches needed before the score goes to press) would act as a suitable homage to this titan among composers, who influenced so many of us, and whom I had the good fortune of meeting on a couple of occasions back in the early 1990s after hearing him perform his own compositions on a couple of concerts in the Bay Area. His music will not be forgotten and his legacy will live on. He is, arguably, one of the most important composers for the piano of the past fifty years. Rest in peace, Frederic Rzewski! You were one of the great musicians of your time! For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Adagietto Doloroso for piano: in memoriam Frederic Rzewski

Deformed Fugue for harpsichord Op. 17 (1977, revised 1990). For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at:
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Royal OilWorks Music

Deformed Fugue for harpsichord Op. 17

Gottes Sohn ist kommen: a Chorale Prelude for piano based on J.S. Bach's Choralgesang B.A.  39, No. 65 (Michael Weisse 1531)Op. 122, No. 1 from Three Incongruisms by Gary Lloyd Noland (originally composed in 1976-77, revised and completed on July 23rd, 2021). This work is planned for publication in the Collected Piano Works of Gary Lloyd Noland, Volume 2, with its planned release date in the Autumn of 2021. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Gottes Sohn ist kommen: a Chorale Prelude for piano Op. 122, No. 1  from 3 Incongruisms

Golden Gate Rag was originally composed in 1974-75 when the composer was in high school, only shortly after beginning piano lessons with Goodwin Sammel in Berkeley, CA at age 16 (1973). Although Noland was severely underprivileged insofar as being deprived of early musical training due to his having been raised in an impoverished, semi-dysfunctional broken home (sans piano until he was 11 years old), he had the music of the masters playing in his head since infancy, and so, once the serious musical training commenced at age sixteen, harmony came quite naturally to him. When he entered college at U.C. Berkeley in 1975, he realized he had a more masterful command of harmony than any of his professors, in spite of the spotty musical training (from mostly mediocre teachers) he had received in his formative years. This is a newly revised version of the piece and the first time it has ever been publicly released. The score is due to be made available in Noland's Collected Piano Works Volume 2, which is slated for publication in the autumn of 2021. At the time of this writing (August 11th, 2021) the First Volume (286 pages) of Noland's collected piano works is due out in a matter of weeks. The release of Noland's compositions in large affordable volumes is an ongoing project. Stay tuned! For more information on the composer, please visit his website: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Golden Gate Rag for piano Op. 123

SEPTET Op. 43 is conducted by Guy Tyler. Carol Robe, clarinet; Tom Bergeron, alto sax; Ellen Campbell, French horn; Tasana Nagavajara, violin; Anthony Dyer, violin; Forrest Moyer, double bass; Art Maddox, piano.
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This piece was commissioned by the Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA) in conjunction with the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) for the Oregon Composer of the Year Award in 1999. It is available for purchase, along with nine other works by the composer, on the recording "Selected Music from Venge Art" at NorthPacificMusic.com

SEPTET Op. 43

"Amerikan Bozo Dance" is the eighth movement of "String Quartet No. 2" (Op. 32, 1993) by Gary Lloyd Noland. It is the musical "punchline" of the movement that precedes it (titled "Polyester Fugue").  Performance by the Onyx String Quartet: Anna Presler, violin; Phyllis Kamrin, violin; Kurt Rohde, viola; Leighton Fong, cello. For more information on the composer, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

AMERIKAN BOZO DANCE from STRING QUARTET NO. 2, Op. 32, No. 8

NERDFOX RAG for piano Op. 23 (1978, revised 1992). For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

NERDFOX RAG for piano Op. 23

PARENTAL ADVISORY from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 9 (newly revised version—Feb. 16th, 2021). For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PARENTAL ADVISORY from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 9

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF GERMAN OPERATIC TENOR AND COMPOSER DANIEL BEHLE Op. 117, No. 7. Composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. 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 a delicately sculpted, multi-layered comprovisation for piano and is the seventh in a series of such musical portraits. Thus far I have composed portraits of artists, writers, and performers who emanate powerfully luminous auras in their work, including 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, and American feminist academic and social critic Camille Paglia.

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF GERMAN OPERATIC TENOR AND COMPOSER DANIEL BEHLE Op. 117, No. 7

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

Amerikan Bozo Dance for string quartet and other compositions by Gary Lloyd Noland

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer