The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs SWAGGERING SOFTIES by Gary Lloyd Noland.

SWAGGERING SOFTIES

GARY LLOYD NOLAND performs his ELEGY IN HOMAGE TO OUR FOUR-LEGGED LOVED ONES for piano. This piece was composed in memory of my two beloved cats, Kiwi (1995—2011) and Pansy (1995-2013). It was also composed for the purpose of consoling anyone grieving the loss of a beloved feline or canine companion or any other furry friend. It is meant to serve as a companion piece to Alkan's Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ELEGY IN HOMAGE TO OUR FOUR-LEGGED LOVED ONES for piano

Soprano HSIN YI LIN and pianist ASYA GULUA perform GARY LLOYD NOLAND'S setting of ALEXANDER THEROUX'S poem PIMP (Op. 111).

Acclaimed novelist/poet/essayist Alexander Theroux has given the composer permission to set as many of his poems as he wishes from his Collected Poems (published by Fantagraphics in 2015). Noland originally scheduled a recital of a number of these songs to be performed by soprano Hsin Yi Lin and pianist Asya Gulua on April 11th, 2020 at Classic Pianos in Portland, Oregon, but that recital was cancelled in the eleventh hour on account of the (then) escalating pandemic. The recital was finally rescheduled at Lincoln Hall Room 75 at Portland State University on December 4th, 2022 under the umbrella of CASCADIA COMPOSERS (a chapter of NACUSA). This recording is one of the raw takes from the recording sessions immediately following the concert.

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Pimp":

As a literary agent
you hustle books like flesh,
a working burke for money,
an English snob in a coat,
2 percent castle, 98 moat.

The difference between
the preening you and a pimp,
since both of you are frauds,
when the arithmetic is done,
is simple: there is none.

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

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The December 4th, 2022 recital and recording sessions that took place at Portland State University were made possible in part by the selfless generosity of former co-owner of the Willakenzie Estate Winery and well-known and influential benefactor of the arts in Oregon: Ronni S. Lacroute.

A special heartfelt thanks also goes to my thirteen Facebook friends who responded with incredible kindness and generosity by donating to my Facebook Fundraiser almost three years ago (in the early months of 2020). Some of them are from the Portland (Oregon) region and others from different parts of the U.S., as well as from other countries and continents abroad. They are (in alphabetical order):
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Randi Botnen, Gerald W. Braden, Michel Bril, Tony Leonardo Cimino, Jean-David Coen, Leonid Korelstein, Huii Hu, Ruta Kuzmickas, David Lasocki, Leslie Sawyer, Johnoscar Nagum Villa, Matt Weiss

A special thanks to my friend Jack Gabel for recording/videographing this event and the scheduled sessions thereafter!

Also a special thanks to the entire Cascadia Board and membership for their help and support with publicity and other particulars related to this event! I would especially like to thank Jeff Winslow for his help and to Nicholas Yandell for assisting in getting the word out.

For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

For more information on novelist/poet/essayist ALEXANDER THEROUX, please consult the Internet for numerous articles, reviews, interviews, etc.

PIMP for soprano & piano (poem by ALEXANDER THEROUX)

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs ENNUI SPREE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (December 22nd, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ENNUI SPREE

Soprano HSIN YI LIN and pianist ASYA GULUA perform GARY LLOYD NOLAND'S setting of ALEXANDER THEROUX'S poem WILLOW TREE (Op. 105).

Acclaimed novelist/poet/essayist Alexander Theroux has given the composer permission to set as many of his poems as he wishes from his Collected Poems (published by Fantagraphics in 2015). Noland originally scheduled a recital of a number of these songs to be performed by soprano Hsin Yi Lin and pianist Asya Gulua on April 11th, 2020 at Classic Pianos in Portland, Oregon, but that recital was cancelled in the eleventh hour on account of the (then) escalating pandemic. The recital was finally rescheduled at Lincoln Hall Room 75 at Portland State University on December 4th, 2022 under the umbrella of CASCADIA COMPOSERS (a chapter of NACUSA). This recording is one of the raw takes from the recording sessions immediately following the concert.

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Willow Tree":

I find consolation in your sight, 
willow by my window,
for your lessons of the night 
like a kindred soul endow,

so softly do you weep at the whim 
of fickle winds when they start,
so easily do you break in limb 
just like a lover’s heart.

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

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The December 4th, 2022 recital and recording sessions that took place at Portland State University were made possible in part by the selfless generosity of former co-owner of the Willakenzie Estate Winery and well-known and influential benefactor of the arts in Oregon: Ronni S. Lacroute.

A special heartfelt thanks also goes to my thirteen Facebook friends who responded with incredible kindness and generosity by donating to my Facebook Fundraiser almost three years ago (in the early months of 2020). Some of them are from the Portland (Oregon) region and others from different parts of the U.S., as well as from other countries and continents abroad. They are (in alphabetical order):
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Randi Botnen, Gerald W. Braden, Michel Bril, Tony Leonardo Cimino, Jean-David Coen, Leonid Korelstein, Huii Hu, Ruta Kuzmickas, David Lasocki, Leslie Sawyer, Johnoscar Nagum Villa, Matt Weiss

A special thanks to my friend Jack Gabel for recording/videographing this event and the scheduled sessions thereafter!

Also a special thanks to the entire Cascadia Board and membership for their help and support with publicity and other particulars related to this event! I would especially like to thank Jeff Winslow for his help and to Nicholas Yandell for assisting in getting the word out.

For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

For more information on novelist/poet/essayist ALEXANDER THEROUX, please consult the Internet for numerous articles, reviews, interviews, etc.

WILLOW TREE for soprano & piano (poem by ALEXANDER THEROUX)

Soprano HSIN YI LIN and pianist ASYA GULUA perform GARY LLOYD NOLAND'S setting of ALEXANDER THEROUX'S poem DESERT SPACE (Op. 113).

Acclaimed novelist/poet/essayist Alexander Theroux has given the composer permission to set as many of his poems as he wishes from his Collected Poems (published by Fantagraphics in 2015). Noland originally scheduled a recital of a number of these songs to be performed by soprano Hsin Yi Lin and pianist Asya Gulua on April 11th, 2020 at Classic Pianos in Portland, Oregon, but that recital was cancelled in the eleventh hour on account of the (then) escalating pandemic. The recital was finally rescheduled at Lincoln Hall Room 75 at Portland State University on December 4th, 2022 under the umbrella of CASCADIA COMPOSERS (a chapter of NACUSA). This recording is one of the raw takes from the recording sessions immediately following the concert.

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Desert Space":

I dreamt in my pain
you reckoned with mine
when my heart was broken in two

and hoped to see
as I looked for a sign
for what that happened you'd rue.

Who would deny
that's where you start
in hopes of remaining true?

But then again
if you had a heart
you'd be someone other than you.


Music copyright © 2020 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux
Permission to set this poem to music has been granted by the author.

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

The December 4th, 2022 recital and recording sessions that took place at Portland State University were made possible in part by the selfless generosity of former co-owner of the Willakenzie Estate Winery and well-known and influential benefactor of the arts in Oregon: Ronni S. Lacroute.

A special heartfelt thanks also goes to my thirteen Facebook friends who responded with incredible kindness and generosity by donating to my Facebook Fundraiser almost three years ago (in the early months of 2020). Some of them are from the Portland (Oregon) region and others from different parts of the U.S., as well as from other countries and continents abroad. They are (in alphabetical order):
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Randi Botnen, Gerald W. Braden, Michel Bril, Tony Leonardo Cimino, Jean-David Coen, Leonid Korelstein, Huii Hu, Ruta Kuzmickas, David Lasocki, Leslie Sawyer, Johnoscar Nagum Villa, Matt Weiss

A special thanks to my friend Jack Gabel for recording/videographing this event and the scheduled sessions thereafter!

Also a special thanks to the entire Cascadia Board and membership for their help and support with publicity and other particulars related to this event! I would especially like to thank Jeff Winslow for his help and to Nicholas Yandell for assisting in getting the word out.

For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

For more information on novelist/poet/essayist ALEXANDER THEROUX, please consult the Internet for numerous articles, reviews, interviews, etc.

DESERT SPACE for soprano & piano (poem by ALEXANDER THEROUX)

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs CANDYFLOSS FOR TINSEL DESPOTS: PEACE, LOVE, JOY, AND ALL THAT JAZZ—a festive cluster of queerworms to accompany the exuberant celebration of the onrushing Xmas & New Year's hustle & bustle by GARY LLOYD NOLAND, Op. 143, No. 8(December 24th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

CANDYFLOSS FOR TINSEL DESPOTS: PEACE, LOVE, JOY, AND ALL THAT JAZZ, Op. 143, No. 8

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs KITSCH PATCH by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (December 25th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

KITSCH PATCH

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs CYBER LUDDITE REBELLION by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (December 26th, 2021). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

CYBER LUDDITE REBELLION

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs A TOP - SECRET INSIDE LOOK AT THE SURREPTITIOUS INTELLIGENCE - GATHERING SURVEILLANCES OF TRUST - FUNDED IN - CROWD WANNABES BY MARGINMAN AND HIS BOX - DWELLING BROHORTS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A TOP - SECRET INSIDE LOOK AT THE SURREPTITIOUS INTELLIGENCE - GATHERING SURVEILLANCES OF…

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs NEW YEAR'S TREPIDATION, Op. 143, No. 4, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (December 31st, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

NEW YEAR'S TREPIDATION, Op. 143, No. 4

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs SWAGGERING SOFTIES by Gary Lloyd Noland (January 3rd, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs DOOM WOP BA-DOOM, Op. 140, No. 1, by Gary Lloyd Noland (January 6th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

DOOM WOP BA-DOOM, Op. 140, No. 1

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

VELVEETA CANTATA

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs SLAPSTICK REQUIEM, Op. 143, No. 3, by Gary Lloyd Noland (January 9th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SLAPSTICK REQUIEM, Op. 143, No. 3

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs SCOFFSCOURINGS by Gary Lloyd Noland (January 11th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SCOFFSCOURINGS

Pianist Julia Amirova performs FUGHETTA, Op. 1, No. 14 by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Pianist bio:

Julia Amirova is a Ukrainian pianist, arranger and composer now living in Krakow, Poland. Julia started her musical career as a performer of classical music. In 2011, Julia graduated cum laude from Kyiv Institute of Music with a major in “Solo musician, accompanist, ensemble performer”, where she studied at Tetiana Pivovarova’s class. In 2012, she graduated cum laude from Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television majoring in sound mastering. As a student, she won numerous competitions and festivals in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine (III place at International Festival “The art of XX century” in 2002, Worzel, Ukraine, II place in Music Festival “Zoloti Zerniata Ukrainy” in 2004, Kyiv, Ukraine, laureate of the Kyiv Region Competition of Young Pianists in 2004, 2005, 2006, I place at Kyiv City Olympiad of the History of Music, 2004, I place at the Kyiv Piano Duet Competition “Traditional and Contemporary” in 2006, I place, III place and II place at Etude Competition at Kyiv Institute of Music at 2008, 2009 and 2010). Awarded the Kyiv major’s scholarship for academic success and significant creative achievements (2004) and diploma for creative contribution to the activities of Kyiv Institute of Music (2011). Among the styles of music Julia prefers Late Romanticism, Impressionism and modern music. Julia’s fondness for jazz and rock music dates back to school time; she was very excited when she first heard “The Koln Concert” of the famous jazz pianist Keith Jarrett.

In 2011, she started the band Strikha-project together with her friends. The band played traditional Ukrainian folk songs in modern arrangements, combined with jazz, blues and electronic music.

In 2014, she moved to Krakow to study at Krakow School of Jazz and Modern Music (her teachers were Piotr Kalicki and Dominic Wania). In 2015, Julia participated in the International Summer Jazz Academy in Krakow, where she was a special assistant. She co-founded the band KlezzJezz, where she made arrangements, created her own compositions and played the piano. The main direction of the band’s creative work was playing klezmer music in jazz arrangements along with their own pieces.

In 2016, Julia started the band Good Flow Trio. It plays jazz standards and popular songs in the band’s own swing, soul, bossa nova and pop arrangements.

In 2018, she started the girls jazz kwartet “Fuzzy Birds” together with friends. It plays own compositions in jazz, fusion, jazz-rock and jazz-folk styles.

In 2020, she graduated cum laude from Krakow Academy of Music majoring in jazz piano at Joachim Mencel’s class. There she met Mikolaj Sikora, the bassist, and Patryk Gajda, the drummer; together, they formed Julia’s own jazz band Amirova Trio. Main style of Amirova Trio’s music is jazz: contemporary jazz, modern jazz, groove, but Slavic folklore influences it greatly.

FUGHETTA for piano, Op. 1, No. 14 (1983)

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

INCANDESCENT PUTREFACTION

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs "A Stern Prussian Head - Governess Follows to a T the Rigorous Codes of Practice Laid Out in Obsolescent Victorian-Era Toilet-Training Manuals for Micro-Regulating the Excremental Excretions of her Young Charges, viz. the Sons & Daughters of Prosperity-Gospel-Banging Fundamentalists and their Belarusian Mail-Order Brides" by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A Stern Prussian Head - Governess Follows to a T the Rigorous Codes of Practice Laid Out in…

Pianist Ethan Dunne performs AUBADE, Op. 40, No. 5 by Gary Lloyd Noland. The score of this piece is available in COLLECTED PIANO WORKS: Volume 1, which is available for purchase at most major book retailers, including Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Piano-Works-Lloyd-Noland/dp/1732302383/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TGM5EQRWT221&keywords=gary+lloyd+noland+in+books&qid=1674241227&sprefix=gary+lloyd+noland%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1

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

AUBADE for piano, Op. 40, No. 5

ESPRESSO WAGON from 24 INTERLUDES for piano Op. 71, No. 3 performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ESPRESSO WAGON for piano Op. 71, No. 3

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

SWAGGERING SOFTIES

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer