II. Keyboard:
I. Organ:
1. Invocation: 3 minutes. Commissioned by The American Guild of Organists for The Biennial National Convention in Boston, MA; published by E. C. Schirmer. Premiered by Lenora McCroskey at First Baptist in Newton, MA.
2. Five Chorale Preludes: 10 minutes; performed many times by Harvey Burget: at St. Paul's Cathedral, and Marsh Chapel in Boston and The Church of The Ascension in NYC and at Corpus Christie. Selections also played by Gordon Dean and James Christi.
II. Harpsichord:
1. Sonatina for Harpsichord: 3 movements in 5 minutes. Unperformed.
III. Piano:
IIIa. Sonatinas:
1. Itsy Bitsy Piano Sonatina: 3 minutes, 3 movements; written in Italy. Used in "This Old Man" III/I/7/III.
2. Piano Sonatina: 7 minutes, 3 movements; premiered by Eileen Feldman at Paine Hall of Harvard University; Movements I & II played at "Oasis" and elsewhere by Michael Rafferty, harp. I is included in "This Old Man," III/III/8/II; Movement II is III/III/1b.
IIIb. Piano Sonatas:
1. Piano Sonata #1: Two Melodies: 10 minutes. Unperformed.
2. Piano Sonata #II: Ice: 4 movements; 15 minutes. Unperformed.
IIIc. Miscellaneous Piano Pieces:
1. Book of the Hanging Fruit-flies: 3 suites and 2 sonatinas totaling 20 minutes; "five finger." That ecast in the computer drawn soap opera "Dynosaur" in Crazy Dinosaurs; also used in the video "Grasshopper Gartside" by Robert Morris. Recorded by the composer. Unperformed.
2. Percussion Piece: 3 minutes. Premiered by Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta at The Boston Public Library with "Music Now." Used for the clay animated video "The Train" as part of Crazy Dinosaurs, cablecast on BNN-TV.
3. Two Ballads: originally "Water Death Piano Sonata" 11 minutes and 40 seconds.Premiered by Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta at The United Parish in Brookline, MA with "Music Now" and cablecast as the clay animated video "Murder Mystery" in "Crazy Dinosaurs" on BNN-TV. Separated in 2019, because of the arc of each of them: starting from nothing and going to a great climax. I use the term "Ballad" to mean a poetic story, here told in music:
3a. Water Death: Faces on The Waves: Water Death" The captain murders all of his mutinous crew; then sees their faces on the waves. From a story in Fate Magazine.
3b. Haunted Shrine: In the sacred space we are confronted by malevolent spirits.
IIId. Piano versions of Orchestral Works:
1. III/I/4b. The Great Liberator: 30 minutes.Unperformed.
2. III/I/5c. Scrooge: 40 minutes.Unperformed in this version.
3. III/II/2c. The Crystal Forest: 17 minutes; a 5 minute version was used for "Medusa Seduca" which was cablecast on BNN-TV: a gay man (the composer) on a bad hair day meets many suitors (TJ Norris) until he finds the perfect kiss.
4. III/III/2c. Passacaglia: 5 minutes. Unperformed.
5. III/III/4d. Time: 3 minutes; first movement only. Premiered at The University of Vermont. Performed by Eileen Feldman with "Music Now" at Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge, MA.. Choreographed by Nancy Angelini, who performed it with Joe Pocaro with"Music Now & Now Dance." Used in the clay animated video "Dinos in Space" as cablecast on BNN-TV.
1. III/I/4b. The Great Liberator: 30 minutes.Unperformed.
2. III/I/5c. Scrooge: 40 minutes.Unperformed in this version.
3. III/II/2c. The Crystal Forest: 17 minutes; a 5 minute version was used for "Medusa Seduca" which was cablecast on BNN-TV: a gay man (the composer) on a bad hair day meets many suitors (TJ Norris) until he finds the perfect kiss.
4. III/III/2c. Passacaglia: 5 minutes. Unperformed.
5. III/III/4d. Time: 3 minutes; first movement only. Premiered at The University of Vermont. Performed by Eileen Feldman with "Music Now" at Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Cambridge, MA.. Choreographed by Nancy Angelini, who performed it with Joe Pocaro with"Music Now & Now Dance." Used in the clay animated video "Dinos in Space" as cablecast on BNN-TV.