GILLYGALAY for piano and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

PRIMORDIAL GLOOP and other works by composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND

NAG CLOWNS & THORN PIPERS and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

MUSIC IS DEAD: a Paradox in Fugue and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

DISAFFECTION DANCE and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

BIG TIME SMALLSHOT

IN AMERIMORIAM from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 19 and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

INVENTION IN G MINOR Op. 1, No. 15 and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

RUSSELL STREET RAG for piano and other works by GARY LLOYD NOLAND

THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT FLOYD from 24 INTERLUDES for piano Op. 71, No. 5 performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT FLOYD for piano Op. 71, No. 5

KLOGJAM from 24 INTERLUDES for piano Op. 71, No. 15. Performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

KLOGJAM for piano Op. 71, No. 15

SPRAY TAINT from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 2. For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

SPRAY TAINT from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 2

GILLYGALAY from 24 INTERLUDES for piano, Op. 71, No. 2 performed by the composer. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

GILLYGALAY for piano, Op. 71, No. 2

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

PERFESSOR XEROXBURGER'S RAVERY from 24 POSTLUDES for piano Op. 72, No. 7, performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PERFESSOR XEROXBURGER'S RAVERY for piano Op. 72, No. 7

ORLAN DOY GLANDLY conducts members of the PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE in GARY LLOYD NOLAND'S PRIMORDIAL GLOOP, with the composer at the piano. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PRIMORDIAL GLOOP

MUSIC IS DEAD:  a Paradox In Fugue Op. 53. For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

MUSIC IS DEAD:  a Paradox In Fugue Op. 53

GARY LLOYD NOLAND conducts members of the PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE in a performance of his DISAFFECTION DANCE. Performers are: ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DORLAND OLLY YANG, and ARNOLD DAY LONGLY. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DISAFFECTION DANCE

GARY LLOYD NOLAND conducts members of the PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE in a performance of his THORN CLOWNS & NAGPIPERS. Performers are: ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DORLAND OLLY YANG, and ARNOLD DAY LONGLY. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

NAG CLOWNS & THORN PIPERS

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/

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

This piece, completed on Aug. 4th, 2020, is one in a set of 20 COVIDITTIES. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

IN AMERIMORIAM

Performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. This two-part invention belongs to a set of "Twenty Piano Pieces" Op. 1  (1983). It was composed in Berkeley, California in 1977. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland (aka novelist and playright Dolly Gray Landon), please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

INVENTION IN G MINOR for piano Op. 1, No. 15 from "Twenty Piano Pieces" Op. 1

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

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

SMARTY BLOOPERS

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer