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Instrumental and Chamber
“O alter Duft. . .” (1971) *
quintet for piano and strings • 17′
—Premiere: Tanglewood Festival, 1971
—Transcription of second movement for two pianos 6′
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Odyssey (1973)
solo flute • 13′
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Audio Recording: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=640940
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Duo (Winds of Light) (1973)
(three movements)
violin and piano • 24′
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY936
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Trio (1976)
(two movements)
clarinet, cello, and piano • 21′
—For the American Chamber Trio, Paris, and Radio France
—East and West Artists Chamber Music Composition Prize
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Audio Recording: https://www.discogs.com/Lukas-Foss-John-Russo-Gerald-Levinson-American-Composers/release/7911652
Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY936
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Bronze Music (1980) *
two pianos • 6′
—Published by Margun Music / G Schirmer
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Musiques nocturnes (Hommage à Bartok) (1981) *
solo piano • 5’
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Fanfare (for Boyd Barnard,Xii-6-1985) (1985)
two antiphonal trumpets • 1′
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Audio Recording: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=651897
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Morning Star (1988)
chorale for piano four-hands • 7′
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Audio Recording: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=17425
Program Notes: http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/fileNsWkw.pdf
Audio Recording: http://www.laurelrecord.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LR&Product_Code=LR-859
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Dreamlight (1990)
(three movements)
cello, piano, and percussion • 38′
—Commissioned by André Emelianoff
—Premiere: Miller Theater, New York
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Audio Recording: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=17425
Program Notes: http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/fileNsWkw.pdf
Ragamalika (2001)
(four pieces)
solo piano • 16′
—Commissioned and first performed by Marcantonio Barone, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY936
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Midnight Dream (After ‘Round Midnight, by Thelonious Monk) (2001) *
solo piano • 5’
—Commissioned by Emanuele Arciuli and the University of Cincinnati as part of the “Round Midnight” Project
—Premiere: Miller Theater, New York
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Audio Recording: https://www.amazon.com/Round-Midnight-Homage-Thelonious-Monk/dp/B004YMYPOC/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1443207289&sr=1-2
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Diabelli Dream (2010) *
clarinet, cello, and piano • 3’
—Commissioned by the Network for New Music, in honor of its 25th Anniversary Season
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Crickets (2009)
string quartet and piano • 5′
—For Orchestra 2001 in honor of its 21st Anniversary Season
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Au Coeur de l’infini (2012)
organ • 15’
—For Olivier Latry and the Cathedral of Notre Dame on its 850th anniversary, Paris
—Premiere: Great Organ of Notre Dame Cathedral, 2013
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Ringing Changes (2015)
two pianos • 8’
—For Duo Stephanie and Saar, New York
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Vocal
in wind (1970) *
soprano, fl, vln, hp, pf • 10′
—Text by Nanine Valen
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in dark (three poems of the night) (1972)
soprano, alto fl, bass fl, vla, vc, hp, pf, 2 perc • 17′
—Texts by Robert Lax and Nanine Valen
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Audio Recording: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=36496
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY277
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Black Magic / White Magic (1981)
(twelve songs)
mezzo-soprano and seven players
fl/picc/alto fl, ob/Eng hn, cl, cl/bass cl, vln, vc, pno, 21′
—Poems by Nanine Valen
—New England Conservatory New Works Prize, 1981
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Audio Recording: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=17425
Program Notes: http://www.newworldrecords.org/uploads/fileNsWkw.pdf
Consolation (1997)
voice and piano • 3′
—Poem by Daniel Berrigan
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY936
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Three Fables (2009)
narrator, violin, and cello • 13’
—Poems from Fables by Robert Lax
—For Auricolae Children’s Music Ensemble
—Commissioned by American Composers Forum, Community Partners Program
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Audio Recording: http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/the-double-album-storytelling-and-music-for-violin-cello-and-narrator-mr0004138515
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Large Ensembles and Chamber Orchestra
sky music (1974-75)
(five movements)
2 fl, ob, cl, hn, 2 vln, vla, vc, hp, pf, 2 perc • 37′
—For the Paris Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and Radio France
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Light dances / stones sing (1978) *
music for eighteen players
fl/picc, ob/Eng hn, 2 cl, bsn, 2 tpt, hn, bass trb, 3 perc, pf/cel, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb • 22′
—Published by Margun Music / G Schirmer
—Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood
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Chant des rochers (1978)
2 fl/picc, ob/Eng hn, 2 cl, bsn/cbsn, 2 tpt, hn, bass trb, tuba, hp, pf, 2 perc • 12′
—Commissioned by the Ministère de la Culture, Paris, France, for the Ensemble Ars Nova
—In honor of Oliver Messiaen on his 70th birthday
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY742
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For the Morning of the World (1983)
(six movements)
suite for chamber orchestrafl/picc/alto fl, ob/Eng hn, 2 cl, bsn, 2 tpt, hn, trb, 2 perc, pf/cel, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb (or string section) • 26′
—Commissioned by Yale University for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
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Time and the Bell . . . (1998)
(six movements)
solo piano and chamber ensemble
fl/alto fl, ob/Eng. hn, cl/bass cl, vln, vla, vlc, and perc • 28′
—Co-Commissioned by Meet the Composer / Commissioning Music USA
—For Orchestra 2001 and Marcantonio Barone
—Co-Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
—Co-Commissined by the Syracuse Society for New Music
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY742
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Here of amazing most now (1999)
(twelve instrumental miniatures)
fl/alto fl, ob/Eng. hn, sop.sax, vlc, cb, guit., pf, and perc • 10′
—In honor of George Crumb on his 70th birthday
—Based on haiku by Basho, Issa, and Buson, and fragments from Lorca and Cummings
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=22d5b46aef05accc8afc6a04b4fb1412&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY936
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At the Still Point of the Turning World, There the Dance Is (2002)
for chamber ensemble
ob/Eng. hn, cl, bass cl, bar.sax, sop.sax, vla, vlc, cb, guit., and perc • 20′
—Commissioned by Chamber Music America for the Network for New Music, Philadelphia
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Audio Recording: http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY838
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Orchestra
Suono Oscuro (1968) *
for large orchestra
4-3-4-3, 4-4-3-1, 5 perc, pf, str • 6′
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Two Poems (1976, revised 1977)
for large orchestra
3-3-4-3, 4-3-3-1, hp, pf, 4 perc, str • 17′
—For the Paris Conservatory Orchestra
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From Erebus and Black Night (1979, revised 1986)
for solo English horn and orchestra
2-2-2-2, 2-2-2-0, hp, 2 perc, str • 20′
—Commissioned by James Freeman and Swarthmore College.
—Revised version • Premiere by Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Dorothy Freeman, soloist, James Freeman, conductor
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Anāhata: Symphony No. 1 (1984–86)
(one movement)
for large orchestra
4-4-4-3, 4-4-3-1, 2 hp, pf, cel, 5 perc, str • 32′
—Commissioned by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Hugh Wolff, conductor
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Sea Changes (1991)
for orchestra
3-3-4-3, 4-3-3-1, 4 perc, hp, pf, str • 24′
—Co-Commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphony
—Co-Commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic
—Co-Commissioned by the Aspen Festival, through the Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program
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Symphony No. 2 (1992–94)
(three linked movements)
for large orchestra
5-4-5-4, 4-4-4-1; timp, 4 perc, hp, pf, cel, str • 40′
—Co-Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation
—Co-Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
—In honor of the orchestra on its 75th anniversary, Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
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Five Fires (1995)
for orchestra
3-3-4-3, 4-3-3-1, timp, 3 perc, hp, pf/cel, str • 10′
—Semifinalist, Masterprize Competition, London
—Broadcast premiere by BBC Scottish Symphony, Alexander Titov, conductor
—Prix International Arthur Honegger de Composition Musicale, 1998
—Concert premiere by the Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Fusion Festival, 2002
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Avatar (2003)
for large orchestra
4-4-4-4, 4-3-3-1, timp, 4 perc, cel, pf, hp, str • 12′ 30″
—Commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra
—For the inaugural concert of Christoph Eschenbach as music director
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Toward Light (2006)
for organ and orchestra
3-3-4-3, 4-3-3-1, timp, 3 perc, cel/pf, hp, str • 10’
—Co-Commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kimmel Center
—For the inauguration of the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ in Verizon Hall, Olivier Latry, organ
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Now Your Colors Sing (2011)
for double string orchestra • 14’
—Co-Commssioned by the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts
—Co-Commissioned by Orchestra 2001, James Freeman, director
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Audio Recording: https://www.innova.mu/albums/gerald-levinson/now-your-colors-sing
Program Notes: https://www.innova.mu/sites/default/files/album/files/726708694821-itunes-booklet.pdf
Wind Ensemble
Bronze Music (1980) *
for symphonic band
—Published by Margun Music / G Schirmer • 6′
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Mountain Light (2000)
for symphonic band • 8′
—Commissioned by the Westport, CT, Millennium Committee
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Jazz Band
Bird Rock (2014)
for jazz big band
5 sax, 5 tpt, 4 trb, pf, elect. bass, drums • 6’
—For the Swarthmore College Jazz Ensemble
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