DESERT SPACE for soprano & piano Op. 113 (setting of poem by Alexander Theroux)

Uncatalogued Comprov (ca. 2003—2006?)

Four Heine Lieder Op. 19

"It" for SATB, Oboe, French Horn, Double bass, & Timpani

ROMANCE for viola & piano Op. 10 by Gary Lloyd Noland

EFFETE STINKOPATIONS Op. 72, No. 2

Old Berkeley for piano Op. 116, No. 13 by Gary Lloyd Noland

CORONAGOGO HIPSTER SLOB CHIC from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116

Asymptophlegmaticism from 20 Coviditties Op. 116

CONVENTION DEFICIT

Composer Gary Lloyd Noland performs his COVIDÉCADENSE for piano, Op. 116, No. 5 (August 12th, 2020).  For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

COVIDÉCADENSE for piano, Op. 116, No. 5 (Aug. 12, 2020)

Those carriers of the coronavirus who are asymptomatic are not always aware of the havoc being wreaked upon their innards or how it potentially effects others, including loved ones, in their immediate vicinity. ASYMPTOPHLEGMATICISM is a psychopathological condition shared by unmasked shedders of the Tr*mp virus who display no outward symptoms of the infection yet don’t give a flying fig if they transmit it to their fellow travelers.
This piece explores the blithe, careless insouciance and complacent, unguarded optimism of many asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus. Imagine that under the skin all the organs of one's body, including the brain, are being silently ravaged by this sneaky and insidious infection, unbeknownst to lackadaisically over-confident spreaders thereof. This is a piece with a message: Be wary of all strangers as well as those nearest and dearest to you! Practice social distancing to the uttermost! You never know where that pesky virus might be lurking, ready to ambush its next unsuspecting prey! For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ASYMPTOPHLEGMATICISM from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 15

CORONAGOGO HIPSTER SLOB CHIC portrays those entitlement kleptocrats who dwindle away their precious time making moronic fashion statements vis-à-vis this unforgiving pestilence.
For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, go to his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CORONAGOGO HIPSTER SLOB CHIC from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 10

GARY LLOYD NOLAND: "OLD BERKELEY" for piano, performed by the composer. OLD BERKELEY was composed in memory of my piano teacher Goodwin Sammel (1925-2020), whom I thought of as an immutable fixture in my hometown. Whenever visiting Berkeley from Portland I felt secure knowing of the spirit of Goodwin's formidable musical presence in his home on Francisco Street, just west of Shattuck Avenue. Berkeley will never feel quite the same without him. The global landscape has transformed significantly since Goodwin’s departure on January 16th, 2020. Due to the relentless propagation of the Tr*mp virus, it may no longer be possible to revisit the town of my formative years. This piece expresses my feeling of being exiled in conjunction with a wistful longing for a return to an era that has all but vanished in a heartbeat. Despite many historically negative connotations in reference to the emotional condition of nostalgia, I confess to it here without shame.

OLD BERKELEY for piano from 20 COVIDITTIES Op. 116, No. 13

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

Violist Katherine Murdock and pianist Randall Hodgkinson perform ROMANCE for viola & piano Op. 10 by Gary Lloyd Noland (1980, revised 1987). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ROMANCE for viola & piano Op. 10

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs HUMORESQUE Op. 3 by Gary Lloyd Noland (1985). This was recorded at the New England Conservatory in 1988. It appears on the CD SELECTED MUSIC FROM VENGE ART. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Selected Music From Venge Art

HUMORESQUE for piano Op. 3

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs KIRCHNERISM Op. 8, No. 2 by composer Gary Lloyd Noland. This piece is the second in a set of SIX AND A HALF PIANO PIECES. 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.

KIRCHNERISM for piano Op. 8, No. 2

Gary Lloyd Noland narrates his text piece VAIN & ABEL Op. 73 at the piano with pianist and Thereminist Terry Wergeland. This was performed on a concert sponsored by Cascadia Composers at the Community Music Center in Portland, Oregon on December 13th, 2014. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

VAIN & ABEL for narrator and musicians Op. 73

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

Soprano Theresa Koon and pianist Kaori Katayama Noland perform AUS MEINEN TRÄNEN SPRIESSEN Op. 19, No. 1 (1979, rev. 1982)from FOUR HEINE LIEDER by Gary Lloyd Noland Op. 19. To read more about the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

AUS MEINEN TRÄNEN SPRIESSEN for soprano & piano Op. 19, No. 1

Soprano Theresa Koon and pianist Kaori Katayama Noland perform EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM Op. 19, No. 4 from FOUR HEINE LIEDER (1979-1990)by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/ 

Poem:

Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Im Norden auf kahler Höh.
Ihn schläfert; mit weißer Decke
Umhüllen ihn Eis und Schnee.
Er träumt von einer Palme,
Die, fern im Morgenland,
Einsam und schweigend trauert
Auf brennender Felsenwand.

EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM for soprano & piano Op. 19, No. 4 from FOUR HEINE LIEDER

Kimberly Raddatz and pianist Art Maddox perform my Four Heine Lieder Op. 19 (June 22, 2000, Newman Center, Eugene, OR). Parts of this recording didn't turn out well but I am sharing it because the performance catches the spirit of these songs.

As of February, 2019 I have had the great pleasure and honor of setting a number of poems by Alexander Theroux (an author I have deeply admired for many years) for soprano and piano. Theroux has given me his blessing to set as many of his poems as I like from his Collected Poems (published by Fantagraphics in 2015). I had initially scheduled a recital of eight of these new songs to be performed by soprano Hsin Yi Lin and pianist Asya Gulua on Saturday, April 11th, 2020 at Classic Pianos in Portland, Oregon. Unfortunately, I have had to postpone this recital due to the COVID-19 outbreak.This is a MIDI rendition of "Desert Space" Op. 113 (see poem below), which is best heard with headphones. The score that scrolls across the screen is not the final version; it is merely what I use at the moment for listening purposes. The completed version of the score of this song will eventually be available for downloading from my website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/ 
Enjoy!

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 by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 113
Poem by Alexander Theroux

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

NB: the score scrolled across the screen is a crude version of the piece meant for listening only. The completed score of the song will be made available for downloading from my website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DESERT SPACE for soprano & piano Op. 113

This rendition of PORNOMUSIK by GARY LLOYD NOLAND was completed on August 26th, 2018. The original recording at the piano dates back to ca. 2000-2002. The score consists of twelve pages of lavishly illustrated lurid comix with dialogue balloons containing carefully conceived albeit random texts (illustrated by the composer's  visual artist alter ego LON GAYLORD DYLAN and written by his novelist and playwright alter ego DOLLY GRAY LANDON) that is recited by the performer(s). Any number of musicians is permitted to perform this piece in the configurations of their choosing, which lends considerable flexibility to interpretations thereof. This recording consists of the composer at the piano extemporizing and reciting from the dialogue balloons provided in the score. The illustrations in the score date back to ca. 1971-72, when the artist (composer) was only fourteen years of age and residing in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (where Richard Strauss lived for much of his life until his death in 1949). Every performance of this piece yields completely different results. This performance is one of many possible interpretations.

PORNOMUSIK Op. 48 (2000)—Aug. 26, 2018

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 my first attempt at a musical portrait. This portrait is of the novelist, essayist, and poet Alexander Theroux (born 1939)—a delicately sculpted, multi-layered comprovisation for piano. I am hoping to do more musical portraits of artists, writers, and performers who emanate powerfully luminous auras in their work. I have four or five other people in mind for this project.

PORTRAIT OF NOVELIST, ESSAYIST & POET ALEXANDER THEROUX for piano

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

CONVENTION DEFICIT is the twentieth in a set of 24 INTERLUDES for piano. Performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CONVENTION DEFICIT for piano Op. 71, No. 20 from 24 INTERLUDES

This is a setting of Alexander Theroux's poem THE CABARET OF THERESIENSTADT for soprano & piano by composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND.

THE CABARET OF THERESIENSTADT (setting of poem by ALEXANDER THEROUX) for soprano & piano

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

THE CABARET OF THERESIENSTADT (setting of poem by ALEXANDER THEROUX) for soprano & piano

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer