SHOUTING at the GATES to the NEON WASTELAND

after Jasper Johns (Regrets)

Tyrone Page, tenor sax, super hero

[each movement is iterative of the same material - a graveyard of abandoned motives pointing towards the same theme]

Fluorescent Skeleton Reassembled

Poetry by Anthony Madrid

Lisa Perry, soprano
Jeff Zeiders, drums


Marfa Songs

Rainbow Shark

Snowalker

As read by Harlan Parker and the Peabody Wind Ensemble

Struggle Hymn

Most living creatures leave no ghost, and even if they do it's totally useless.
Whereas, one can knock a hole in a brick wall with the ghost of a material object.

Ghost

War-weary general, manfully squinting into the sunlight,
Call back your invincible armies. Show mercy to the heathen peoples.

Heathen

I am going into the prayer room; I am intent on saying a prayer. I have
Memorized the unrhymed sonnet that begs forgiveness of those we love.

Forgiveness

I'm gonna throw a rope around this building and haul it up a hill.
I'll bite my teeth into the rope and flex my neck and pull.

Rope

How long must she be your lover before you can recognize her by her gait?
By the shuffle of her sandals as she goes up the stairs with your rival.

How long must she be your lover before you can hear that it's her,
Though you're in a landing airplane, and she is just stepping out of her bath.

Rival

Beneath your parents mattress is a stairwell leading downward.
The bed is like a door on which your parents knocked to summon you.

Mattress

I shall sit atop Olympus; I shall juggle dying worlds.
I shall trifle with Great Hatreds and toy with Young Love.

Olympus

Movement 1 of rainbow Shark

Ben Learish, Brad Testerman, Ty Page, Sean Meyers - saxes

Movement 4 of Rainbow Shark

Ben Learish, Brad Testerman, Ty Page, Sean Meyers - saxes

(interval)

Movement 5 of Rainbow Shark

Ben Learish, Brad Testerman, Ty Page, Sean Meyers - saxes

Kraken

Electric Mega Punch

First movement of 'SHOUTING at the GATES to the NEON WASTELAND'

Conducted by David Vickerman
Performed by the TCNJ Wind Ensemble

SHOUTING GATES

Second movement of 'SHOUTING at the GATES to the NEON WASTELAND'

Conducted by David Vickerman
Performed by the TCNJ Wind Ensemble

WASTELAND

after Jasper Johns (Regrets)

Tyrone Page, tenor sax, super hero

spark

l-ne

mel.Frag

shadomel

Cra.k

Final movement of Black Heart, music composed to accompany scenes from Nosferatu.

performed by the Occasional Symphony, Halloween 2015
conducted by Joshua Hong

Termini

Movement 21 of 32 of True Fluorescent Skeleton

Tyrone Page Jr., tenor sax
Recorded by Matthew Sullivan and Edwin Huet at Heartwood studios
Mixed by Matthew Sullivan

FAZE - Og

Faust 2017

Raze Anima

Premiered by Ginevra Petrucci at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall on February 8, 2020

Commissioned by the Flauto d'Amore Project

In Thomas Malory’s retelling of the Arthurian romance, two brothers, Balin and Balan meet on the field and do not recognize each other - one caked in mud, the other in a foreign armor. They mortally wound one another, and only then identify themselves. Weeping they die in mutual embrace.

This music is a similar story, but only in its telling.

Find the complete score here: https://www.flautodamore.com/store/brittleking

james david young

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