After the poem In Two Seconds by Mark Doty about the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and inspired by jazz funeral processions, an exploration of the grief of women who must bear the unthinkable as they bury their children, especially women from further marginalized communities whose grief is invalidated and forced into suppression.

A Mother’s Requiem for Tamir

Welcome Fanfare and Pomp NYC

Sunday Morning Tango with a violin

A piece to honor the courage, strength, dignity of the people of the sovereign nation of Ukraine.

Prayer For Ukraine

This is an orchestral version of a theme for a romcom or love story.

Orchestral Variations On Love Theme

Il dottore di Favignana

Breathless

Opening Theme, for Andrew Bellware

A pastoral piece for small orchestra and guitar.

Meditation, for Kim

An easy-jazz piano piece with some complex movements and an occasional virtuoso hand called upon here in this art song, inspired by the impressionist composers, like Satie and Ravel. ￼ And an awfully good baker, Lucas Santiago.

A Stroll with Lucas

Like dawn in Western Africa, this fanfare rises and warms a new administration with a special nod to President Boakai's niece Theresa who worked long hours 7 days a week as a caregiver to my father. Clearly, a family of service.

Fanfare for President Boakai

When the bough breaks, into the woods, I think it important lullabies, nursery rhymes, validate the fears children have, of something as daily, as terrifying, as falling asleep. I wanted to revisit this piece and make sure it had those notes of mystery if not downright fear, and to resolve them.

A lullaby for heroes, revisited

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An original contemporary classical composition to welcome Spring in NYC.

A Spring Quartet

Themes to use in production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

The Merchant of Venice Suite

Under the partial eclipse of April 2024 | saw distinct phases that mirrored my father's decline:
An incalculable fear leading up to the event.
The moment everyone's shadow disappeared and we fell under the spell of a planetary dance on a scale we couldn't imagine.
The eclipse, awe-inspiring, the crown, searing, apocalyptic.
The transformation, that never ends, despite the innumerable times we think it has.

L'éclipse partielle de mon père

Jeffrey Plunkett is an actor living in NYC. He is creating original incidental music for live theatre productions and film.  Nearly all the artwork accompanying each track is Mr. Plunkett's and is available in many sizes and materials from canvas to acrylic glass. He can be reached at Jeffplunkett@gmail.com .

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