B A 4; 2 voices and dancer; performance by BLY (voices) and Lisbeth Sonne (dance)

B A 4

MONMA Clip

World premiere performance of "Colorful Open Space" (2023) for cello and piano, 2 June 2023. This piece was commissioned by the Colorado State Music Teachers Association for their 2023 CSMTA conference at CSU Pueblo, where Anthony R. Green was the selected commissioned composer. The piece is written for and dedicated to Mathieu D'Ordine.

Mathieu D'Ordine, cello
Anthony R. Green, piano & composition

Colorful Open Space (2023)

Performance in St. Botolph Hall at New England Conservatory, February 2008. David Goodchild, contrabass; Anthony Green, piano

Nicht Zart II: Hommage a Scelsi

Premiere of "... heen en weer ..." by Sound Energy:
Micah Ringham, violin
Ashleigh Gordon, viola
Robert Mayes, cello
30 March 2015

... heen en weer ... (2015)

Premiere of "Ohkyanoos" for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano, by Ensemble Transmission, at the 5th Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus. 

Ohkyanoos (2013)

Clip from the Opera "Alex in Transition", taken from Transition I : Alex & Psyche. In this "Transition", Alex is in a therapy session with her therapist Psyche. 

Anastasia Klevan - Psyche (soprano)
Iris Brill - Alex (mezzo)
Gili Rinot - Clarinet
Eleana Lovenberg - Viola
Shulamit Lorraine - Cello
Itamar Ronen - piano primo
Anthony Green - piano secondo
Hans Schellevis - conductor

Recorded at the Israel Conservatory of Music, 15 June 2016

Alex in Transition; Transition I : Alex & Psyche

Midnight, and the taking in (2007) for solo soprano and semi-open ensemble (1 - 3 of each : trumpet, vibraphone, harp, viola I, viola II, cello, contrabass). Performance from the premiere at Williams Hall, New England Conservatory.

Text:
Daunting
Your eyes - abyss deep
Eclipsed by weightlessness
A fog over the heart's path
Teasing
Fondling the metronomic arm
That governs our synchronicity
But why steadiness?
We are as the heartbeat
Quickening in delight
Quickening in shock
Quickening in breathlessness

I saw you - even when we were displaced
By oceans and time zones
I still heard your depth
Felt your coy rouge in my ear
You branded your aura
On my fragile soul
It can never be removed
Will ... 
         ~ by Anthony Green, 2006

Soprano: Ceceilia Allwein
Trumpets: Travis Alford, Danilo Henriquez
Vibraphone: Aziz Barnard-Luce
Harp: Lucia Stavros
Viola I: Ashe Gordon
Viola II: Kalindi Bellach, Jessica Lipon
Cello: Alicia Lynne Gregorian, Javier Caballero
Contrabass: Kathy Schulmeister

Midnight, and the taking-in

Me covering "To the Teeth" by Ani DiFranco, a song from 1999 that will always be relevant till politicians do something about the obvious gun problem that is a cancer to US Americans. 

Performance at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Sunday, 5 November 2017, during the Art, Empathy, and Ethos residency.

www.anthonyrgreen.com
Instagram/Twitter/Facebook: @piargno84

To The Teeth - Ani DiFranco cover

Recording of "P is for ...". Anthony Green, voice. This work was commissioned by the Playground Ensemble.

P is for ... 

P is for ... (2016)

performed by the String Orchestra at South High School, Minneapolis. This orchestra comprises players with a range of experience on their instruments. This work was composed as part of a project for the McKnight Visiting Composers fellowship.

String Meditation (2018), for string orchestra (all levels)

Benjamin Sorrell, alto saxophone; Anthony Green, piano. Recording of the premiere performance, Grusin Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, 30 November, 2011. 

Weightless (2011)

The Playground Ensemble: Megan Buness, soprano; Brian Ebert, clarinets; Richard von Foerster, cello; Rachel Hargroder, percussion; Reggie Berg, piano; and Jonathan Leathwood, conductor. Recorded at the premiere performance in Grusin Hall, the Universtiy of Colorado at Boulder, 14 April 2010. Featured on the Playground's debut CD "Dreams Go Through Me", available here: 

https://www.playgroundensemble.org/merch

The Gettysburg Address (2010)

Ossia New Music Ensemble, Matt Barber, conductor; recording from premiere performance at Kilbourn Hall, 27 March 2009. 

3 Groups (2008)

Ashleigh Gordon, viola; Ginevra Ventre, cello; Recording from premiere at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, MA, 14 November 2008

Scintillation II (2008)

Laurel String Quartet (now separated): Annie Rabat, violin I; Ying Xue, violin II; Sarah Darling, viola; Song Ie Do, cello; recording from premiere in Jordan Hall, 1 May 2007

Chance (2004/2007)

Emily Sinclair, soprano; Christopher Zemliauskas, piano; recording of the premiere in Grusin Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, 7 March, 2012

2 Letters of Queen Marguerite (2011)

The Tasman String Quartet (now separated): Anna van der Zee, violin I; James Andrewes, violin II; Christian van der Zee, viola; MIranda Wilson, cello; Recording from the premiere in Grusin Hall, the University of Colorado at Boulder, 12 November 2008

The Soul (2004/2008)

Mathieu D'Ordine, cello; Morgan Black, harp; Anthony Green, piano; recording from the premiere performance in the chamber hall, the University of Colorado at Boulder, 10 December 2010

Refraction Aberrance (2009/2010)

From the song cycle "Dona Nobis Veritatem", 8 mvts, setting the Preamble, the Bill of Rights, and the first 2 paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Ceceilia Allwein, soprano; Ashleigh Gordon, viola; Anthony Green, piano; recording from the premiere performance in St. Botolph Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, 3 March, 2008

Dona Nobis Veritatem - mvt. VII, amendments 7 - 10

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