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E Z R A S I M S

TWELVE-NOTE COMPOSITIONS

(first performances, only, listed)

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Le Tombeau d’Albers (1958) 5’

222(bs)2(contra)

perc/harp/strs

Three Songs (Cantata 1960) 7’30” Frogpeak

texts: Marvell, Herrick, Jonson tenor; 222(e^b, bs) 2/2200

glock, vib, pno, strs

CHAMBER MUSIC

Slow Hiccups (1975) 2’30” Frogpeak

Dinosaur Annex, (Kathy Matasy, 2 equal melody instruments

Larry Scripp, clts.)

Peabody School, Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 1976

[Slow Hiccups] (1975) 2’30” Frogpeak

SLOW HICCUPS IN RETROGRADE INVERSION 2 equal melody instruments

Dinosaur Annex, (Kathy Matasy,

Larry Scripp, clts.)

Peabody School, Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 1976

Grave Dance (1975) 2’ Frogpeak

Dinosaur Annex 2 vlns, vla (or vln), vlnc, pno

I^st & II^nd Church, Boston, Jan 1978

SEE ALSO Grave Dance (1958) in PIANO MUSIC

String Quartet (1959) 15’ Frogpeak

Beaux Arts Quartet string quartet

MUSIC IN OUR TIME, N.Y., 1960

Music for the “Kubla Khan” of Coleridge I (1999) 10’

SEE ALSO Music for the “Kubla Khan” reciter, gamelan, chamber

of Coleridge II (1959) in TAPE MUSIC ensemble

12 Arabesques (1957) 5’

vlnc, pno

Sonata (1957) 8’ Frogpeak

Seymour Barab, vlnc; Gilbert Kalish, pno vlnc, pno

COMPOSERS FORUM, N.Y., 1959

PIANO MUSIC

Büchlein for Lyon (1962) 15’ Frogpeak

Lawrence Smith, pno

MUSIC IN OUR TIME, N.Y., 1962

Grave Dance (1958) 2’ Frogpeak

SEE ALSO Grave Dance (1975) in CHAMBER MUSIC

Rodney Lister, pno

I^st & II^nd Church, Boston, Jan 1978

Sonatine (1957) 7’ Frogpeak

James Workman, pno

KPFA, 1957(8?)

VOCAL/CHORAL MUSIC

Three Cradle Songs (1958/77) 2’45”

Dinosaur Annex; Laurel Stavis, mezzo mezzo soprano, quitar

I^st & II^nd Church, Boston, Jan 1978 2 clts.

Chanson d’aventure: Frogpeak

Nou Sprinkes the Sprai (1951/75) 2’30” tenor & hpschd or pno

Robert MacKinnon, ten; Albert Fuller, hpschd

Composers Workshop, Yale, 1951

Dinosaur Annex: Raymond Hardin, ten; Rodney Lister, pno

I^st & II^nd Church, Boston, Jan 1978

The Temptations at the Siege of Air and Darkness (1975)

text:T.H.White voices, pno, optional instruments

Rodney Lister, cond.

Heathland School, London, May, 1975

Madame Mim’s Work Song (1975) 3’ Frogpeak

text:T.H.White soprano, pno

Rodney Lister, cond

Sir James Barrie Junior School, London, 1975

The Bewties of the Futeball (1974) 2’ Frogpeak

text: anon Scottish, 15— 5-part childrens’ chorus

Cambridge Chorale; Scott Wheeler, cond w/ optional recorders,

I^st & II^nd Church, Boston, May 1977 piano

The Bewties of the Futeball (1974) 2’ Frogpeak

text: anon Scottish, 15— SSATB w/optional flt,

ob, fr. hrn, trbn, 2 pnos, metal idiophones

Three Songs (Cantata 1960) 7’30” Frogpeak

SEE UNDER ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Sieben Spencer-Lieder (1960) 5’

texts: Sylvia Spencer sop, pno

Anne Bowers, sop; Randolph Mickelson,hpschd.

The Living Theater, N.Y, 1960

What God Is Like To Him I Serve? (1958) 2’40” Frogpeak

text: Mistress Anne Bradstreet SATB. unacc

Birmingham-Southern College Choir; Hugh Thomas, cond.

Birmingham-Southern College, 1976

Brief Glimpses Into Contemporary French Literature (1957)

texts:David Stacton 4 countertenors, pno

Dinosaur Annex

Old South Meeting House, Boston, 1975

[Two Folk Songs] (1958) 5’ Frogpeak

The Streets of Laredo

Charles Guiteau baritone, pno

Robert Kuhn, bar; Stephen Mayr, pno

Carnegie Recital Hall, 1972

Mass (1955) 10’ Frogpeak

SSAAATTB, unacc

Chamber Cantata on Chinese Poems (1954) 8’45” Frogpeak

texts:Anon, Wang Wu-Shih, Su Shih tenor, flt, clt (bss), vla,

Wang Wei, Su T’ing, Li Po, P’ai Yu-Ch’en vlnc, hpschd

Earl Rogers, ten; chamber ensemble

COMPOSERS FORUM, N.Y., 1959

THEATER MUSIC (VOCAL)

When the Angels Blow Their Trumpets (1976) 1’

text: Arthur Williams (WAITING FOR THE MOON) 2 mezzo-sop, bar.

Theater For The New City, N.Y., 1976

The Walrus and the Carpenter (1975) 1j5’

text: Lewis Carroll speaker, 6 woodblocks

choreography: Toby Armour

New England Dinosaur

Kresge Little Theatre, MIT, Dec., 1975

The Owl and the Pussycat (1975) 12’

text: Lewis Carroll bass, chromatic harmonica,

choreography: Toby Armour electric guitar

New England Dinosaur

Kresge Little Theatre, MIT, Dec., 1975

Mugs McGhee’s Last Song (1970)

text: Arthur Williams (DREAMS FOR SALE) mezzo-sop, pno, page-turner

Arlene Rothlein, mezzo; David Tice, pno;

John Herbert McDowell, page-turner

The Open Space, N.Y., April 1970

Lion At The Door (1969) 1’30”

text: Vera Nemchinova unacc. voice(s)

choreography: Aileen Pasloff (HOPES AND FEARS)

Toby Armour and Dancers

Lehman Hall, Harvard Univ, March 1969

Cat’s Cradle (1969) 8’

texts: Kurt Vonnegut chorus, 2 flts, 2 clts, trpt,

Ina Hahn Dance Company trbn, perc

Loeb Drama Center, Harvard Univ, March 1969

(THE SACRAMENT ACCORDING TO THE BOOKS OF BOKONON)

THEATER MUSIC (INSTRUMENTAL)

Music for The Ticklish Acrobat (1957) 15’

Actors Workshop, S.F., Calif, 1957 oboe, celeste, xylophone

Masque (1955) 20’

choreography: Welland Lathrop chamber orchestra

(2-PIANO VERSION:)

Halprin-Lathrop Dance Company

Marine Memorial Theater, S.F. 1956

(ORCHESTRA VERSION, Second Movement:)

Mills College, Oakland, Calif., 1956

Music for The Trojan Women (1955)

Mills College, 1955 chamber orchestra