Work for mezzo-soprano, baritone, piano quintet, and fixed media. Fixed media is made from archival sound recordings of the sermons of Rabbi Arnold J. Wolf (1924-2008). Commissioned by K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Congregation to commemorate Rabbi Wolf's 5th yahrzeit. Premiered Dec. 2013 at KAM Isaiah Israel by Julia Bentley, Alan Dunbar, Spektral Quartet, Nolan Pearson, with Michael Lewanski, conductor. Sound Design by Ryan Ingebritsen—mixing by Ryan Ingebritsen and Isabel Olive. 


The Age Of Catastrophes Premiere (Live)

Here are two songs from my cycle, Mondnacht, for mezzo-soprano and piano setting night poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. Recorded at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, August 2011. 

Laura Mercado-Wright, mezzo-soprano
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, piano

Fallende Sterne

Live recordings of my piece, Towards the Flame, for flute, violin, cello, and percussion. 
Mvmts. 1 and 3, recorded by eighth blackbird at the Modlin Center for the Arts, Richmond, VA, Sept. 2009
Mvmts. 2 and 4, recorded by the New Fromm Players at Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, August 2010

I. Tun 'Tawu

II. Death's Head

III. Atlas

IV. Chrysalis

for flute (dbl. picc./alto flute), bass clarinet (dbl. Bb cl), violin, cello, percussion, and piano
live performance by eighth blackbird, Contempo, Fulton Recital Hall, Chicago, IL, May 18th, 2012


Night Rituals (2012)

Laura Mercado-Wright, mezzo-soprano, and Thann Scoggin, baritone, at the Blanton Museum of Art, Oct. 21st, 2012. Setting poems by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and Federico García Lorca.

Three New Lullabies (2011)

Laura Mercado-Wright, mezzo soprano, and Cullen Faulk, percussion, performing at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, on Oct. 21st, 2012. The poem sets Rainer Maria Rilke, from the first Duino Elegy. 

Shawn Brogan Allison

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