My first attempt at composing for orchestra using Reaper and the BBC Spitfire Orchestra samples.

First One

The New Quartet (with Leslie Sawyer, 1st violin, who was then concert master of the Eugene Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop [the composer will have to research further to provide the names of other Eugene Symphony players, as he is currently unable to locate the original program) performs String Quartet No. 2, movements 6—10 (1993)by Gary Lloyd Noland. This performance took place on a Seventh Species concert under the umbrella of the University of Oregon’s Music Today Festival at The Unitarian Church in Eugene, Oregon on April 22nd, 1995. This is from a newly digitized recording from an ancient cassette tape which the composer picked up from a local service that transcribes cassettes and DATs to digital media on the afternoon of February 13th, 2023—much to his delight!

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 32, Movements 6 - 10 (1993)

Soprano Deborah Harrington and pianist Gary Lloyd Noland perform Noland's setting of VERBORGENHEIT

VERBORGENHEIT For Soprano & Piano, Op. 1, No. 11 (Möricke)

Soprano Deborah Harrington and pianist Gary Lloyd Noland perform Noland's setting of Eduard Mörike's poem VERBORGENHEIT, Op. 1, No. 11. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VERBORGENHEIT For Soprano & Piano, Op. 1, No. 11 (poem: Eduard Mörike)

Pianist Sheila Waxman performs BURLESQUE, Op. 1, No. 20 (1983) by Gary Lloyd Noland. This performance took place on a Thelma E. Goldberg concert at Paine Hall, Harvard University, May 14th, 1989. The famed Princeton composer/theorist Dmitri Tymoczko also had a work featured on this selfsame concert. Dmitri was a young Harvard undergraduate at the time but Noland, upon hearing Dmitri's music for the first time, immediately recognized his unusual musical gifts(Noland is NEVER wrong about such things!). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com.

BURLESQUE for piano, Op. 1, No. 20 (Sheila Waxman, piano)

Composer Gary Lloyd Noland performs his BYGONE FANCIES for piano, Op. 142, No. 2 (March 16th, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BYGONE FANCIES for piano, Op. 142, No. 2

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs LAST-DITCH ENTREATY by Gary Lloyd Noland (April 21st, 2023). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

LAST-DITCH ENTREATY

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Alexander Theroux's poem "Autobiography," Op. 108. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Here is Alexander Theroux's poem "Autobiography":

My default reflex is to disappear.
My defect reflex is to default.
My appearance is to reflect default.
My despair appearance is to defect.
My reflex is to appear to default.
My reappearance is to reflect defect.
My refault defect is to reappear.
My defect reappearance is to despair.

Music by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 108
Poem by Alexander Theroux

Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux 
Permission to set this poem has been granted by the author.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY for soprano & piano, Op. 108; poem by Alexander Theroux

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Victor Hugo Morales perform composer Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Heinrich Heine's poem "Aus meinen Tränen Sprießen" from his FOUR HEINE LIEDER, Op. 19, No. 1. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

AUS MEINEN TRÄNEN SPRIESSEN from FOUR HEINE LIEDER, Op. 19, No. 1

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Victor Hugo Morales perform Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Eduard Mörike's poem VERBORGENHEIT, Op. 1, No. 11 (June 26th, 2023). Upon hearing a recording of this Lied at the composition seminar he taught at Harvard back in 1984, Pulitzer prize winning composer Leon Kirchner declared before his students that this song was "as great as anything by Wagner." Noland's setting of VERBORGENHEIT has been performed by a number of singers and pianists over the past forty years and now, finally, the composer is delighted to present a recording that meets his standards for release on one of his upcoming CD albums. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VERBORGENHEIT for soprano & piano, Op. 1, No. 11; poem by Eduard Mörike

Lyric Soprano Lilian Tong performs Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Alexander Theroux's poem "What Was The Peach To Nellie Melba?" for soprano & alto, Op. 147, No. 7.

Poem by Alexander Theroux

Since you won’t be my lover,
I refuse to be your friend.
It may be vulgar, this
Hideous female trend,

But I’m one, like God, in number,
Choose to be unique;
You’re with me or against me.
I all or nothing seek.

Don’t ask me to be generous.
Pragmatism’s me;
Show me love and friendship?
Antithesis I see.

I’m a modern woman,
Of this please have no doubt:
I stick around with someone
Only if things work out.

If nothing’s finally in it,
What’s a visit or a drink
To a woman who wants marriage?
I go by what I think

And can measure in a man
Who’ll commit himself to me.
I go by what is solid,
Not by what I see.

No dyads or dichotomies
For such as me, my friend;
To me a value’s what
I’m holding in the end.

Don’t talk to me of grace,
You go from bad to worse.
Winter’s round the corner.
Put money in thy purse.

No parts for me, come round
When ready with the whole.
Bugger drinks and dinner.
I want to own your soul.

Poem copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux from Collected Poems (published by Fantagraphics); Music copyright © 2023 by Gary Lloyd Noland • BMI

For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WHAT WAS THE PEACH TO NELLIE MELBA? for soprano & alto, Op. 147, No. 7; poem by Alexander Theroux

Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Alexander Theroux's poem "All Roys are fat," Op. 106 (2019) 

All Roys are fat but tubbiness can’t hurt
in everything that life presents of choice.
Don’t push away that wet dessert.
Doesn’t size allow a fuller voice?

Portliness by definition makes a ring.
I say eat the head off anything.

If a belt’s too short around your waist, try string.
What is comic usually can sing.

Music by Gary Lloyd Noland, Op. 106
Poem by Alexander Theroux

Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland
Text from Collected Poems copyright © 2015 by Alexander Theroux 
Permission to set this poem has been granted by the author.

ALL ROYS ARE FAT for soprano & piano, Op. 106: poem by Alexander Theroux

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Soprano Hayley Boggs and pianist Maryna Buksha perform Gary Lloyd Noland's setting of Alexander Theroux's poem "Winter Wounds" (October 10th, 2023, Op. 148). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Poem by Alexander Theroux

Imagine the moron
Who is loved
Thinking she deserves
By looks or fame or fate
Another's heart,
And so reserves
Part of what she thinks
She shouldn't give
To her less-deserving mate.
You can take the time,
Queen Pig, to spend
A lifetime as a fop?
We deserve nothing,
Unless everything—
You are certainly
Not enough—
To compensate for all
The lies we're told,
Your haughty huffs.
If someone in the world
Should ever be chosen
To rage against the cold
At the last minute,
The pall of coming death,
It won't be me;
I'll welcome it,
Without deliberation,
Without a reservation,
Winter wounds and all.

Poem copyright 2015 by Alexander Theroux from Collected Poems (published by Fantagraphics). Music copyright © 2019 by Gary Lloyd Noland • 7th Species • BMI

Permission granted by the author to the composer to set his poem to music.

WINTER WOUNDS for soprano & piano, Op. 148; poem by Alexander Theroux

Pianist extraordinaire Maryna Buksha performs LIEBESSCHMERZ FUGE, Op. 95, by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

LIEBESSCHMERZ FUGE for piano, Op. 95

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