Here is a selection of compositions by composer Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Music by West Coast composer Gary Lloyd Noland

This piece, completed on Aug. 29, 2020, is one of Noland's COVIDITTIES Op. 116.  For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PANDEMICAMODIUM from 20 COVIDITTIES, Op. 116, No. 8

This is the fifteenth in a set of twenty pieces Op. 1 (1983). Performed by the composer.

TWO-PART INVENTION IN G MINOR for piano Op. 1, No. 15

Gary Lloyd Noland performs OLD BOSTON for piano from his COVIDITTIES Op. 116. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

OLD BOSTON for piano

EFFETE STINKOPATIONS is the second of "24 Postludes" for piano. Performed by composer Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

24 Postludes For Piano Volume 1

EFFETE STINKOPATIONS for piano Op. 72, No. 2

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs ALLEMANDE from SIX AND A HALF PIANO PIECES Op. 8 (1986) 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.

ALLEMANDE from SIX AND A HALF PIANO PIECES Op. 8, No. 4

Gary Lloyd Noland performs his LA CHARMEUSE for piano Op. 72, No. 21 (from his 24 POSTLUDES). For more information on the composer, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

LA CHARMEUSE for piano Op. 72, No. 21

Gary Lloyd Noland performs BIEDERMEIER INFRUNITIONS Op. 71, No. 14 from his "24 INTERLUDES" for piano. For more information on the composer, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

BIEDERMEIER INFRUNITIONS for piano Op. 71, No. 14

Violist Katherine Murdock and pianist Randall Hodgkinson perform ROMANCE Op. 10 by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ROMANCE for viola & piano Op. 10

Cellist Hamilton Cheifetz and pianist Victor Steinhardt perform Gary Lloyd Noland's FANTASY IN E MINOR Op. 24 (1984, rev. 1992). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

FANTASY IN E MINOR for cello & piano Op. 24

LOCKDOWN BURNOUT is one of a set of TWENTY COVIDITTIES Op. 116 by Gary Lloyd Noland (b 1957). To read more about the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

LOCKDOWN BURNOUT from 20 COVIDITTIES, Op. 116, No. 20

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs SINFONIA Op. 8, No. 3 by Gary Lloyd Noland (1977). 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 the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

SINFONIA for piano Op. 8, No. 3

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs PROVERB & AAEEETA GARRLICCA!!! Op. 8, Nos. 6 & 6 1/2 from "Six and a Half Pieces" for piano by Gary Lloyd Noland. This performance includes a brief guest appearance by the composer shouting "Eat Garlic!" with a Sicilian accent. Dedicated to Ira Braus, who was the Head Garlichead of Cambridge (MA) back in the 1980s. 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 the composer, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PROVERB & AAEEETTA GARRLICCA!!! Op. 8, Nos. 6 & 6 1/2 for piano

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

KNOCK-DOWN-AND-DRAG-OUT FREE-FOR-ALL 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: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

KNOCK-DOWN-AND-DRAG-OUT FREE-FOR-ALL  From  MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES  Op. 102, No. 6

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

LARCABOUNGER ZIZZ  From  MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES  OP. 102, No. 8

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

BOTFEED is the fourth 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/

BOTFEED   from  MUSICAL JUNK SCULPTURES  Op. 102, No. 4.

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

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

Music by West Coast composer Gary Lloyd Noland

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer