Score/parts download: https://michaelmauldin.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-353208_three_dances_from_chaco_canyon_concertpiece_for_chamber_orchestra.html

1st dance 0:00, 2nd dance 3:38, (no break)3rd dance: 7:04

"Three Dances from Chaco Canyon: Concertpiece for Chamber Orchestra". Premiered by the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, Directed by David Oberg, June 21, 1981 in a concert of Mauldin’s works in Keller Hall at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, a concert sponsored by Ghost Ranch Foundation.

Recording: Edited recording in Keller Hall by the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, David Oberg, conductor, on the cassette "Our Magic Places", produced by M Mauldin, sold out, archival copies only. Also recorded by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Oberg, on CD 189 produced by Opus One (the best recording but out of print--the complete track may be downloaded here).  Also recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic, conducted by Robert Ian Winstin, on Volume 10 of the Masterworks of the New Era, produced by ERM Media.

More info: mikemauldin.com/index.php/compositions  "Seeing things through the eyes of the Anasazi allowed me to say positive things in my work, but instead of eliminating negative things, my 'time-travel' at Chaco heightened the awareness of both good and evil. I felt as a child feels, breathing in both the joys and terrors of existence on this planet. This piece shocked audiences with its wild reliving of ancient ceremonies. But some people missed the great tenderness of the second dance."

Review: "Tonal, approachable, yet far from simple." --Records International, December 2005

newspaper article: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/columns/listen_up/being-there/article_48eac79a-a3a8-5b8b-9a7d-82a1fd1050ba.html

Three Dances from Chaco Canyon (complete)

A counterpoint study in the form of a (not so strict) fugue.

(Painting: "Fugue" by Wassily Kandinsky)

Fugue fka "Punctus Contra Punctum" (2015)

4th movement of String Quartet No. 1 by Richard T. Hill rerecorded as a stand alone piece.
Russell Kotcher - Violin
Rebecca Harris - Violin
Eric Coyne - Cello
Marjorie Goldberg - Viola
Andrew Nelson - Engineer

Tango For String Quartet

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Performed by Alarm Will Sound at the 2012 Mizzou New Music Summer Festival 
Missouri Theatre Centre for the Arts, Columbia Missouri

The Einstein Slide (2012)
Addendum to Collective Uncommon: Seven Orchestral Studies on Medical Oddities (2010)

The Einstein Slide is a short chamber concerto inspired by a medical slide of Albert Einstein's brain on display at the Mütter museum, a medical oddities museum in Philadelphia. 
	Lucy Rorke-Adams, the neuropathologist who donated the slides to the museum, has found that Einstein's brain is remarkably youthful for a man aged 76. "The blood vessels are gorgeous", she says. To reflect this, the music is ever inspired and brilliant, undergoing constant shifts and a childlike exploration of material. Scientists have found that Einstein's brain was lacking a complete Sylvian fissure, a type of wall separating the parts of the brain responsible for mathematical ability, spatial reasoning and three-dimensional visualization. Some argue that the synergy of these diverse segments in Einstein's brain allowed him to think differently. The Einstein Slide evokes this, musically, by way of constant shifting between sections. 
	There is also the "musical equation" toward the middle of the score. This is a musical representation of the formula E=mc2 in the form of a puzzle canon. Overall, the key areas of the work are C and C-sharp, reflecting, in a musical way, the c squared notion of the famous equation.


Tango For String Quartet

Richard T. Hill|Composer

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