"Entracte" by Jacques Ibert
Piece originally written for flute and harp or classical guitar. This is an actual performance that happened at Grace Church in Nyack, New York in 2003.  
Jonathan Trotta, guitar
Marianne Osiel, oboe

Entracte By Ibert For Oboe And Guitar

original version of a song by Don Henley called "Sad Cafe"...
The players: Duke Levine, electric guitar * Gary Solomon, bass * Alain Mallet, piano, hammond B3 * Doug Yowell, drums * Marianne, voice, acoustic guitar

Rearranging Gravity RUFFS w AM

SAD CAFE

Originally written for flute and harp, "Entra'cte" by Jacques Ibert
oboe - Marianne Osiel
guitar - Jonathan Trotta
Performance at Grace Church in Nyack, NY, circa approximately 2002

Entracte By Jacques Ibert For Oboe And Guitar

Rearranging Gravity (1997) 
        by Marianne Osiel & Alan Miller

Marianne Osiel, voice, guitar
Jennifer Maidman, bass
Annie Whitehead, trombone

(recording of rehearsal for upcoming show)

Rearranging Gravity (w/ Jennifer Maidman &Annie Whitehead).mp3

One of the outtakes from the album, "How The Light Gets In" (oboe, english horn, and keyboards), where Marianne left her oboe to favor acoustic slide guitar, playing in duet with Denman Maroney, prepared piano (hyperpiano) extraordinaire.  This track could be featured in some unusual places....

Arizona Dustbowl

DUSTBOWL (Maroney/Osiel)

Lise Worthington (Interfaith Minister) and Marianne Osiel (multi-instrumentalist) team up to create "Outside The Box", a sermon for everyone...written words by Lise, music and songs (including lyrics) by Marianne.

Outside The Box, LW Words MO Music

Marianne Osiel (vocals, guitar), Jennifer Maidman (bass), and Annie Whitehead (trombone) in performance, November 5, 2022, St. John's Church in Ellenville, New York for a program called "Rearranging Gravity"

New Heart

Rearranging  Gravity (Live w/ Jennifer Maidman & Annie Whitehead)

An "outtake" from "How the Light Gets In", this piece called "When The Student Is Ready"-- Marianne on vocals, Denman Maroney on electronic keyboard

Unknown Album

When The Student Is Ready (an improvisation by Denman Maroney and Marianne Osiel)

"Walk On Water" (1997), recorded for Marianne's solo album, "Full Of Wholes II" (almost out of print)

Walk On Water (Osiel)

A piece completely made up in-the-moment, "Aubrey",  features Aubrey Carton/Lande (voice, poetry), Ty Burhoe (guitar), and Marianne Osiel (slide guitar, flute), appearing on a recording entitled, "Poemeopothy (1993)".

Aubrey (Carton, Burhoe, Osiel)

An entirely improvised piece, affectionately called "Gibberishness".  Created by Aubrey Carton on voice, and Marianne Osiel on piano and slide guitar. A dithyramb to the hilt!!

Gibberishness (Carton, Osiel)

"Waking Up", an improvisation by Aubrey Carton (voice) and Marianne Osiel (slide guitar, piano)

Waking Up (Carton, Osiel)

"Pulse Of Life", an improvisation, created by Aubrey Carton (voice, improvisational poetry), Ty Burhoe (guitar), and Marianne Osiel (oboe).  
*Note: This was the first improvisation created by these three artists together, occurring in summer of 1993 in Boulder, Colorado.

Pulse Of Life - an improvisation by           Carton, Burhoe, and Osiel

"Dreaming Language" (Carton, Osiel), an in-the-moment musical piece (improvisation), featuring Aubrey Carton on voice, Marianne Osiel on piano and oboe.

Dreaming Language (Carton, Osiel)

"The Distance" (Aschmann, Osiel), solo version, on the album, "Full of Wholes I"

The Distance (Aschmann, Osiel)

"Acts of Random Kindness" (1997) (Osiel, Miller), one version of this song which features David Sancious (Seal, Sting) on the piano, and Marianne on voice and oboe, recorded and released right after 9-1-1.  A song for all seasons, especially the holidays.

Acts Of Random Kindness (with Dave Sancious) (Osiel, Miller)

"Moon's Too Bright" (1996), by Alan Miller and Marianne Osiel. Features Marianne on voice, guitar, and slide guitar, Kevin Hogan on bass and drums.

Moon's Too Bright (Miller, Osiel)

"Strange Girl" (1995)--CURRENTLY ON *SALE* ($12.00!) only through the artist, at MOSIEL440@optonline.net* This song was written,   recorded, and produced by Marianne Osiel... the title track to her first album, called "Strange Girl", which features string quartet, oboes, flutes,  and french horn in addition to your usual type of rock band fare!

Strange Girl (Osiel)

A solo live performance of Rearranging Gravity, at Music at the Mission, opening for Lowen & Navarro in 2005.

Rearranging Gravity, by Marianne Osiel

A "slightly different" version of two classics:
      Help (Lennon, McCartney) - SOLO   segueway...into...
      I've Just Seen A Face (Lennon, McCartney, arr. Osiel) - with help from: Luther Rix, drums, and Takashi Otsuka, bass - 'LIVE' at Tallman Mountain Arts Concerts, Piermont, NY (2013)

Help / I've Just Seen A Face (Lennon, McCartney)

"Simply By Osmosis" (Osiel), song originally from the album, "Strange Girl" (1995), Marianne Osiel does an acoustic-electric version, doing all of the parts instrumentally and vocally. Done in less than three hours during a class in recording engineering!

Simply By Osmosis (Osiel), performed by Marianne Osiel

song by Jennifer Martin, "These Are The Days" is for me the perfectly-written song.....where mind, heart, and body all meet, as one.  Recorded right after 9-1-1.  Thanks to Jennifer for letting me 'borrow' the song.  The message stands timeless.

Peacemeal

THESE ARE THE DAYS (J. Martin)

"Don't Blame My Heart", written by Bryan Cummings and Marianne Osiel for the Delta Elements in 1989.  The Solo Version. Other Performances can be found at www.youtube.com/user/maitrimusic/videos soon!

Unknown album (9/6/2014 6:52:31 AM)

DON'T BLAME MY HEART (Cummings, Osiel)

Sounds from Saturday afternoon

written by my dear friend Rebecca Rothenberg, arranged by me.  we all miss her terribly.
"turn on your radio, darling, i'll be there, turn on your radio, i am on the air, turn on your radio, i'll be coming through, turn of your radio, singing just for you...."

10 On The Air

total reframe from the album version (from 'strange girl'), a solo version done as a 'freebie' gift from a recording school who needed a guinea pig that day, that day the pig being MOI. accomplished in three hours!

Simply By Osmosis (solo version)

J.S. Bach aria, "Seufzer Tranen" for voice, oboe, and keyboard - Performers were: Marigene Kettler, voice - Marianne Osiel, oboe - Melissa Alexander, piano 
Performed at Grace Church, Nyack, New York, 2002
........................Lyrics & Translation to follow:................................................

Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not,
Ängstlichs Sehnen, Furcht und Tod
Nagen mein beklemmtes Herz,
Ich empfinde Jammer, Schmerz. 
	
Sighs, tears, anguish, trouble,
anxious longing, fear and death
gnaw at my constricted heart,
I experience misery, pain.

"Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not", by J. S.Bach for soprano, oboe, & keyboard

first track on the album, 'how the light gets in', featuring marianne on oboe with pipe organist, bob barrows. four keyboardists were featured on this album, and spans numerous genres, temperaments, tonalities, all aurally depicting ideas of light and dark.  

there is love here (ac, tb, mo)

Antiphon

One of the cuts from Marianne's oboe/English horn/keyboard CD, "How The Light Gets In", featuring all improvised music, in duet with four different types of keyboard players...this one with Jordan Rudess.

And So It Is In Everything

All tracks by Marianne Osiel, including vocal duet (anonymous, from medieval period), spoken word (poem by Rumi), and slide guitar ....what FUN to put this thing together on my 4-track CASSETTE recorder, finally learning it after everyone else went digital!!

SLOW RUMI

rumi with slide guitar

Performing singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/arranger Marianne Osiel is a consummate musician with her music rooted in classical, blues, folk, and even jazz. A sought-after “sideman” starting with her years in Nashville, she’s played, sung,  and/or recorded with her slide guitar, oboe, flute, and voice, with such artists as John Hall, Nanci Griffith, Rachel Sage, Gatemouth Brown, Roy Orbison, and others. Marianne made her living for a decade with the Nashville Symphony (oboe), even soloing with them during many of the Pops concerts as guest vocalist/songwriter. Marianne’s original recordings include Strange Girl (singer/songwriter), Full of Wholes I and II (singer/songwriter), a “live” album recorded at the infamous Bluebird Café in Nashville, and“How The Light Gets In”, an all-improvised, all-instrumental CD featuring Marianne on the oboe in duet with four New York keyboardists. 
Currently, Marianne is teaching music (oboe, voice, guitar, music theory, songwriting)   privately in Ulster County, New York, along with Zoom classes.
To know more about Marianne and her music, or to order copies of her CD's, you may write to her at: MarianneOsieL118@gmail.com  *

Marianne Osiel

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