Observations on Air (2016) 25'
solo bassoon + 2.2.0.0/2(natural horn).0.0.0/strings (playable on modern instruments)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
solo bassoon + 2.2.0.0/2(natural horn).0.0.0/strings (playable on modern instruments)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Treble Voices
Young People’s Chorus of New York City
piano
Vicki Ray
cl, egtr, perc, pno, vc, db
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Barbican Center
sax quartet ssx, asx, tsx, bsx
Prism Sax Quartet
SATB, 12 voices
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Ars Nova Copenhagen
women's choir
The Choir of California Lutheran University
SSATTB
Casa Da Musica and Theatre of Voices
SATB -- 24 voice min.
The Crossing, Donald Nally - conductor
SSAA playing simple percussion instruments
love fail was co-commissioned by The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2012 Next Wave Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The John F. Kennedy Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, The Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, and Hancher Performances at the University of Iowa. Movement 4, 'the wood and the vine', was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts at University of Denver, The University of California at Riverside, and the Santa Fe Concert Association in Santa FE, NM. Movement 10, 'I live in pain', in a different version, was originally written for “TheCrossing,” Donald Nally, conductor.