WITH ALL DUE DESPECT, YOUR SIR-REVERENCE…

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF DARRELL GRANT Op. 117, No. 11 (May 14th, 2022). This is the first in my series of musical portraits of an individual I don't happen to know as well as the ten others whose portraits I have composed (à la Virgil Thomson) in the past year and a half or so. I was asked by Bonnie Miksch, Professor of Composition at Portland State University, to compose a piece to honor her colleague, jazz pianist and composer Darrell Grant, whom I have not yet met at the time of this writing. I have  listened to excerpts of Darrell Grant's music and some talks of his online. Thus, this piece may be likened to a quick sketch as might be drawn by a portrait artist at a county fair or an amusement park (for naught but a pittance, if that). It is only a quick abstract impression, which might be totally off the mark. This, then, is a musical gesture to celebrate Darrell Grant's sixtieth birthday (May 30th, 2022). All best birthday wishes, Darrell Grant! Hope to meet you in the near future!

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF DARRELL GRANT Op. 117, No. 11 (May 14th, 2022)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs EPISTEMOLOGICAL PARANUNDRUM, Op. 137, No. 3, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (May 19th, 2022).

EPISTEMOLOGICAL PARANUNDRUM, Op. 137, No. 3

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs NIMNOD'S ADRENALIZING IRREALITY CHECK IN NEVER - EVERLAND by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

NIMNOD'S ADRENALIZING IRREALITY CHECK IN NEVER - EVERLAND

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs HYPNOGICIC EJACULOSIS, Op. 135, No. 1, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HYPNOGOGIC EJACULOSIS, Op. 135, No. 1

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs BALLISTIC LULLABY by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BALLISTIC LULLABY

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs HELICOPTER PARENTS FROM HELL by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HELICOPTER PARENTS FROM HELL

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs HELICOPTER PARENTS FROM HELL (Op. 134, No. 4) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

HELICOPTER PARENTS FROM HELL (Op. 134, No. 4)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs NOSE - THUMBING THE ABYSS (Op. 134, No. 1) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

NOSE - THUMBING THE ABYSS (Op. 134, No. 1)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER PUSTULE (Op. 133, No. 2) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER PUSTULE (Op. 133, No. 2)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs WITH ALL DUE DESPECT, YOUR SIR - REVERENCE… (Op. 133, No. 3) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information about the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WITH ALL DUE DESPECT, YOUR SIR - REVERENCE… (Op. 133, No. 3)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs FLAMBIVALENCE (Op. 133, No. 1) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FLAMBIVALENCE (Op. 133, No. 1)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs CEREMONIAL FANFARE FOR THE ROYAL WATERBUG BRIGADE (Op. 134, No. 3) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

CEREMONIAL FANFARE FOR THE ROYAL WATERBUG BRIGADE (Op. 134, No. 3)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs ENTROPIC DOMAIN OF APATHIZING BARNACLES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BRETHREN (Op. 133, No. 6) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ENTROPIC DOMAIN OF APATHIZING BARNACLES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BRETHREN (Op. 133, No. 6)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs THE NATIVES ARE GROWING PSEUDOCIDAL by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

THE NATIVES ARE GROWING PSEUDOCIDAL

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs BLINDED MARE'S NEST OMELETTE (Op. 135, No. 1) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BLINDED MARE'S NEST OMELETTE (Op. 135, No. 1)

Having for the last several years imagined the joy and jubilation that would be felt collectively once the current king is removed from his throne, I have composed this modest piece in anticipation thereof:  "DEMAGOGUE UNSEATMENT CELEBRATION MARCH" for MILITARY BAND (Op. 110). For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, go to: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DEMAGOGUE UNSEATMENT CELEBRATION MARCH for military band Op. 110

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

The Mad Ventures of Marginman is the sixteenth in a set of 24 Postludes for piano Op. 72, No. 16, performed by the composer. To read more about Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

THE MAD VENTURES OF MARGINMAN for piano Op. 72, No. 16

PSYCHONIPPTIONS from 24 POSTLUDES for piano Op. 72, No. 5 performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PSYCHONIPPTIONS for piano Op. 72, No. 5

INSURRECTION OF THE OFFICE SLAVES from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 7. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

INSURRECTION OF THE OFFICE SLAVES from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, 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

WITH ALL DUE DESPECT, YOUR SIR-REVERENCE…

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer