Performed by Eric Huckins and Robert Fleitz

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uch3pGbbhQ

Bridges, Bike Lanes - horn & piano

Performed live by The Albany Symphony's 'Dogs of Desire' featuring Lucy Dhegrae and Lucy Fitz Gibbon, June 11th 2021

Texts by Ayla Sullivan, Dominic Hoey, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Emily Brontë

The Present Hour - two sopranos & sinfonietta

The UT Austin Wind Ensemble, conducted by Drew Dickey in Bates Recital Hall, September 2021

Score and parts available to rent through Murphy Music Press: http://murphymusicpress.com/products/w-918

Zoom - wind ensemble

Performed by the Yale Philharmonia conducted by Ryan Tani, December 9th 2021

Video: https://youtu.be/rNULmD6Rqj8

Steep - strings, percussion & celesta

Performed by Elvin Schlanger, Will Stevens, Lloyd Van't Hoff, Andy Sledge and Salome Jordania

Twirling Aimlessly - winds & piano

Performed by fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, conducted by Rita Castro Blanco

Satellite Chorus - symphonic brass and percussion

Performed live at Roulette by ShoutHouse on May 17th 2022, featuring Chukwu and Alfredo Colón

Breaking Even - ShoutHouse ft. Chukwu & Alfredo Colón

Performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra featuring saxophonist Chris Hemingway, May 2023

Standard Deviation - ballet for saxophone & orchestra

Performed by Katie Hammon and musicians of the Albany Symphony at Cohoes Music Hall, June 2022

Music by Katie Hammon and Bear Grass
Arranged by Jack Frerer

I. Snake in the Grass
II. Clock in the Corner
III. Turn Me Over
IV. I Began
V. Sail Out

Moments In Motion - The Music of Bear Grass

Performed by the Showa Wind Symphony, conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon

Twirling Aimlessly - wind ensemble

Performed by Greg Spiridopoulos and the Albany Symphony Orchestra

Simon Says - concerto for trombone & orchestra (excerpt)

Premiered by Will Liverman and Nu Deco Ensemble at the Adrienne Arsht Center, December 15th 2023

"Emancipation" by Will Liverman & Nu Deco Ensemble (arr. Jack Frerer)

If I Had a Hammer - Pete Seeger (arr. Jack Frerer)

Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway (arr. Jack Frerer)

Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson (arr. Jack Frerer)

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine (arr. Jack Frerer)

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads (arr. Jack Frerer)

Score & Parts: https://www.jackfrerer.com/purchase-scores

Live performance by Ning Zhang (clarinet), KJ Mcdonald (Violin) and Adria Ye (Piano)

Juilliard Composers Concert - Paul Hall, April 18th 2016

Last In, First Out - clarinet, violin, piano

Performed by Chris Staknys (Juilliard recording studio, December 7th 2016)

Splash - piano

Listen with the score: https://youtu.be/I4dyUdKZlKo

Performed by Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles, Jessica Niles and Will Healy.

Commissioned by and written for the Barker College Copeland Choir

***

What is it?  What is it?
What are you thinking of?
What is it you’re thinking of?
What is it?  What is it?

Is it a thing?  Is it smaller than a loaf of bread?
Does it make a noise?  It’s silent!
Can I eat it?  Is it healthy?
Is there meat in it?  It’s vegetarian! 

We’re getting closer to the answer, and then you know it will be my turn!
I’ll find out what you’re thinking of!

Is it a fruit?  Is it round?  Is it smaller than a baseball?
I think I know what it is!

Is it a plum?
Is it a guava?
Is it an apricot?

Is it a grape?

I found out what you’re thinking of!  You were thinking of a grape!

Oh yeah, we just found out the answer (It was a grape!)
And now you know that it is your turn (The answer was a grape!)
To find out what I’m thinking of!

What did I think of?  I can’t think of anything!
What did I think of?  I can’t think of anything!
What did I think of?  I had the best one the other day, my memory’s blank!
What did I think of?  I can’t remember it!
What did I think?  I can’t remember it!

I can’t remember what I thought of yesterday, I thought of something really good but now I can’t remember what I thought of yesterday it was so good!
Yesterday I thought of something really good but now I can’t remember what I thought of yesterday it was so good!

There’s an irony in trying to think of something you were already thinking of…
Like you’re playing a game of twenty questions against yourself…
It’s really quite bizarre.

Was it a thing?  No.
Was it a place?  No.
Was it a person?  Yes!  It was a person!

Are they famous?  Yes they’re very well known!
Are they a singer?  No.  An athlete?  No.  A politition?  No!  An actor?
Yes it was an actor!  Yes it was an actor!

We’re getting closer to the answer! 
Was it a man?  Yes!
And then you know it will be my turn!
I remember who it was!

It was Paul Rudd!  Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd (I was thinking of Paul Rudd!)

Oh I love that one movie he’s in!
You mean that one with Jason Segel?
No but he was quite good in that one as well!
Do you know when it was released?
I want to say like mid-two-thousands.
Anchor Man?
No, not Anchor Man.
Dinner for Schmucks?
No, that was a terrible movie.
Well, you’re not giving me much help here!
Oh wait, I think it was called Duplex!
Duplex?
Yeah.
That’s Ben Stiller.
What?
Yep, it’s Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore.
Seriously?

Wait.
What?
What were we doing?
Were we doing something?
I… I think so?

What was it? What was it?
What were we doing before the subject shifted to Paul Rudd?
What was it? 

I can’t remember.  I can’t remember.
Paul Rudd, Paul Rudd.  A grape, a grape.  
What were we doing?  What were we doing?
I can’t remember!

I can’t remember!  (What were we doing?)

Hmm…

Was it a game?  Did the game involve questions?
Was there a set amount the player could ask?
Was it nine?  No!  Was it seven?  No! 
Was it five?  No!  Was it eleven?  No!

We’re getting closer to the answer 
(Was it three?  No!  Was it eight?  No!  Was it eighteen?  No!)
And then you know it will be my turn!
(Was it twelve?  No!  Was it two?  No!  Was it eighteen?  No!)

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen!

Twenty questions!

Is,

A,

Lot.

Twenty Questions - children's choir

Score & Parts: https://www.jackfrerer.com/purchase-scores
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TqO-PDpEok&t=32s

Movements:
1. .zip - 1mb
2. pirated.mov - 732mb
3. result.pdf - 0.1mb (slow internet)
4. virus - 128kb
4.5 antivirus.dmg - 32mb
5. oldphotos.jpg - 7mb
1.5 .zip (contents) - 1gb

Downloads is a set of miniatures that find interest in the mundane, hyperbolizing the emotional process one goes through when downloading different file types. All of the miniatures combine in the final movement after the first miniature, a small .zip file, is opened.

Performed by Kj Mcdonald (violin), Philip Sheegog (cello), Ning Zhang (clarinet), Viola Chan (flute/piccolo) and Joey Chang (piano).

Downloads - pierrot ensemble

The Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky in Alice Tully Hall, April 23rd 2018

On-Again, Off-Again - orchestra

Video: https://youtu.be/obO7uqMYGLs

Performed by the Azure Quartet: Kj McDonald, Brenden Zak, Hannah Geisinger and Yifei Li

Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements. The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern, one which is played in its complete form at the beginning of a longer, introspective second movement. The first movement presents an inward spiral, constantly tightening. The second works to unravel it.

Spiral Sequences - string quartet

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SR74rawbyk

Performed by Kevin Zhu, Philip Sheegog and Tengku Irfan

Audio Engineering by Nathan Prillaman
https://www.nathanprillaman.com/

Composition and Mixing by Jack Frerer

Mastered by Ryan Shwabe

Stutter Step - piano trio

Performed by Johanna Gruskin (flute) and Matthew Griffith (clarinet)

Back And Forth - flute and clarinet

Score & parts rental: http://murphymusicpress.com/products/w-500

The UT Austin Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jerry Junkin in Bates Recital Hall, October 27th 2019

Program Note:
“Write what you know” is something I think about often, and having lived in New York for several years now I probably know the city's subway system better than I know certain relatives. What begins as one of the most daunting aspects of living in New York gradually becomes one of the most comforting; not the trips themselves –they’re distinctly uncomfortable– but rather their familiarity. You know what you’re in for, you know where you’re going, you know it will be over soon. It’s the tearing-off-the-band-aid of New York.

I take the 1 train, which runs along the west side of Manhattan, at least twice a day from 157th street to 66th and back. Highlights of this trip include being bowled over by the herd of people switching trains at 96th, the elevated tightrope-esque 125th street stop which skies above Harlem, and the turbulent tracks between 145th and 157th. It’s maddening, but there is something satisfying about knowing to grab the handrail once you leave 145th.

This piece is about my commute from 66th up to 157th. To me, nothing is a better symbol of the energy shifts that you experience in a city like New York. You’re either on, hurtling through work, school, meetings, friends, more work, or you’re off, sitting in the back of a Starbucks trying to catch your breath for a moment, or sitting on an empty 1 train as it emerges from underground at 125th street, sun shining through the windows. In New York, there’s no in- between.

On-Again, Off-Again - wind ensemble

Bokyung Byun, guitar

written for Sounding Board: https://www.soundingboardfest.com/catharsis-about

Jack Frerer

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