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Z R A S I M S
TAPE COMPOSITIONS
(first performances, only,
listed
Collage XIII (The Inexcusable) (1977) 15’
choreography:
Jane
Plum tape collage
Jane Plum and dancers
Presser Auditorium,
Illinois Wesleyan Univ, March, 1977
Behold Icarus (1975) 41’30”
Johnny Seitz, Carla Montagno, et al. combine tape
Joy of Movement Center, Cambridge, Mass. April, 1975
After Lyle or Untitled (1975) 11’44”
choreography:
Toby Armour (Fragments
of Garden) musique concrète
New England Dinosaur Dance Company
Lucy Wheelock Auditorium, Wheelock College, April,
1975
Where the Wild Things Are (1973) 51’
text: Maurice Sendak narrator & combine tape
choreography:
Toby
Armour
Ezra Sims, nar., New England Dinosaur
Lucy Wheelock Auditorium, Wheelock College, Oct., 1973
Wall to Wall (1972) 20’
MUSIC HERE AND NOW concrète/collage
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1972
Museum Piece (1972) 16’15”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June, 1972 tape collage
(accompaniment for the display of artifacts and
photographs
of New Guinea collected by Carol Beckwith)
Ground Cover (1972) 5’
choreography:
Toby Armour combine tape
Deborah Lee
Theater for the New City, 1972 (Dancing Ladies)
5 Toby Minutes plus 49.5” (1971) 5’49.5”
(Includes Two Toby Minutes I) combine tape
choreography:
Toby Armour (Brick Layers)
New England Dinosaur
Lucy Wheelock Auditorium, Wheelock College, Dec., 1971
Two Toby Minutes I, II,
& III (1971) 2’
ea. combine tape
Tango Variations (1971) 12’28”
MUSIC HERE AND NOW combine tape
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973
Temptation (1971)
(Introduction to and interludes between combine tape
four recorded tangos)
choreography: Lois Ginandes
New England Dinosaur
Lucy Wheelock Auditorium, Wheelock College, Dec., 1972
Interlope (1971) 20’23”
I. Distraction With Boings collage/concrète
II. Greater Marches Than These
III. And Overtures
choreography: Toby Armour
New England Dance Theatre
Parker St. 470, Boston, Dec., 1970
… including the … (1971) 23’30”
choreography:
Kevin Dewey (Hemorrhage) musique concrète
Goulue Mecanique
Mass College of Art, Nov., 1970
Elina’s Piece (1970) 25’
choreography:
Elina Mooney (Hard Edge: Dance for
Elina and Christopher) computer-generated sound/
Elina Mooney, Christopher Beck musique concrète
The Cubiculo, Nov., 1970
Landscape II: 7 July 70 (Parker 470) (1970) 21’ musique concrète
Clement Wenceslaus Lothaire
Nepomucene, Prince Metternich (1773-1859)
IN MEMORIAM (1970) 21’39”
choreography: Toby Armour (Abalone
Co) combine tape
Toby Armour and Company
Parker St. 470, Boston, July , 1970
Summer Piece: homage to Gene Krupa (1970) 5’22”
choreography:
James Waring musique concrète
Indian Hill School, 1970
Pastorale (1970) 18’30”
choreography:
Toby Armour combine tape
Toby Armour, Bruce de St.Croix, Jan Houston
The Cubiculo, June, 1970
More Overture and Another
Interlude (1970) 3’
[additional material for the new version
of Spookride
SEE: A Frank Overture, etc., (1969) ]
choreography: James Waring
Pennsylvania Ballet, Oct., 1970
Real Toads (1970) 24’30”
choreography:
Cliff Keuter (Now Is The Hour In the Wild
Garden Grown Blessed) musique concrète
Cliff Keuter and
Dance Company
Manhattan School of Music, 1970
Warts & All (1969)
choreography: Cliff Keuter (The Game Man
And the Ladies) tape collage
Cliff Keuter and
Dance Company
Dance Uptown (Minor Lathan Playhouse), 1969
The Duchess of Malfi: Toby Armour Her Toy (1969) 19’15”
choreography: Toby Armour musique concrète
Toby Armour
The Cubiculo, August, 1970
Commonplace Book or A Salute To Our American Container Corp (1969) 23’30”
MUSIC HERE AND NOW concrète/collage
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973
A Frank Overture. Four Dented Interludes. And Coda (1969) 9’53”
choreography:
James Waring (Spookride) concrète/collage
Toby Armour and Dancers
Kresge
Little Theatre, MIT, 1969
Alec (1968) 15’
choreography:
Toby Armour (Visions
At the Death Of Alexander)
Toby Armour and Dancers concrète/collage
Charles Street Meeting House, Boston, Nov., 1969
McDowell’s Fault or The Tenth Sunday After Trinity (1968) 27’
choreography:
Toby Armour [unnamed church piece] tape collage
Second Church of Boston, August, 1968
Antimatter: Three Dances
for Toby (1968) 15’
choreography:
Toby Armour combine tape
Toby Armour and
Dancers
Charles Street Meeting House, Boston, June 1968
Music for
Sakoku (1963) 3’5”
SAKOKU [TV
play by Oda Makoto] electronic/concrète
NHK-TV, Tokyo, Channel 1, April 1963
Music for
the “Kubla
Khan” of Coleridge II (1959)
SEE ALSO Music for the “Kubla
Khan” reciter & tape
collage
of
Coleridge I (1959)
in TWELVE-NOTE
COMPOSITIONS