ensemble three sopranos
alternate version soprano solo with electronic track
text Anne Sexton (from All My Pretty Ones)
duration 8 minutes
premiere October 2007, Elizabeth Baber, Ruth Cunningham, Mellissa Hughes, sopranos; Brooklyn Lyceum
publisher Unsettlement Music
I REMEMBER
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I REMEMBER
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ensemble voice and piano
duration 5 minutes
text "Intimacy these days" by Allison Carter (2010)
written for Gabriel Kahane
commission Music at the Anthology (MATA), Linda and Stuart Nelson
premiere November 2010, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
publisher Unsettlement Music
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INTIMACY AND RESISTANCE
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INTIMACY AND RESISTANCE
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Civil Rights Era song by Len H. Chandler (arr. Ted Hearne)
ensemble SATB choir with soloists, piano
duration 6 minutes
premiere Yes is a World; Ted Hearne, conductor; Chicago, August 2003
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording Chicago Children's Choir: Songs on the Road to Freedom (2007)
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ensemble SATB choir with piano
duration 6 minutes
text Ted Hearne
written fall 2006
commissioned by Chicago Children's Choir
premiere July 2007; New Orleans, LA
publisher Unsettlement Music
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ensemble SATB choir, with 3 soprano solos, piano
duration 6 minutes
text after Barry Commoner's Four Laws of Ecology
commissioned by Head Royce School; Oakland, CA
Robert Wells, conductor
premiere April 2011, Oakland
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording available on request
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AWAY
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ensemble SATB choir with alto solo and piano
duration 8 minutes
text from an interview with Jonathan Kozol
commissioned by Chicago Children's Choir
premiere June 2011, Harris Theater, Chicago
Josephine Lee, conductor
publisher Unsettlement Music
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ROOM FOR SOMETHING
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ensemble unaccompanied choir (SSATB)
duration 10 minutes, in three movements
commissioned by Choir of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City
premiere February 2008, Robert McCormick, director
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording live recording below
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MASS FOR ST. MARY'S
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MASS FOR ST. MARY'S
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ensemble choir (SSATB)
duration 14 minutes, in five movements
text David Simon, from an interview by Bill Moyers; Ted Hearne; traditional Xhosa translated by Mollie Stone and Patiswa Nombona
commissioned by Volti
written fall 2009-winter 2010
premiere May 2010, San Francisco
publisher Unsettlement Music
recordings Volti, House of Voices (Innova Records, 2012)
The Esoterics, Sirene (Esoteric Records, 2013)
PRIVILEGE
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WE CANNOT LEAVE (from Privilege)
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ensemble mixed choir (SATB)
alternate version women's/treble choir (SSAA)
commissioned by Peninsula Women's Chorus
premiere May 2012, Palo Alto, CA
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording live performance below,
upcoming release on Cantaloupe Music, 2017
RIPPLE (SATB)
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RIPPLE (SSAA)
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ensemble solo violin
duration 4 minutes
written summer 2009
commissioned by Nicholas DiEugenio
premiere August 2010, Brooke Army Medical Center
San Antonio, Texas
publisher Unsettlement Music
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NOBODY'S
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NOBODY’S (viola version)
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ensemble solo piano
duration 20 minutes (five movements)
written spring 2011
commissioned by Timo Andres
premiere June 2011; Bargemusic, Brooklyn
publisher Unsettlement Music
PARLOR DIPLOMACY
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ensemble solo cello, with electronics
duration 7 minutes
written for Ashley Bathgate
commissioned by Ashley Bathgate with the Metropolis Ensemble
premiere January 12, 2016, le Poisson Rouge
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording coming soon
Ashley Bathgate
DAVZ23BZMH0
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DAVZ23BZMH0
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ensemble full orchestra (3.3.3.3, 3.4.3.1, timp, 3 perc, 8.6.6.5.3)
duration 9 minutes
written summer 2007
premiere Yale Philharmonia
Julian Pellicano, conductor
publisher Unsettlement Music
additional performance
Minnesota Symphony Orchestra
Minneapolis, November 2008
Osmo Vänska, conductor
selected for inclusion in 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute
PATRIOT
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ensemble 2 singers with 16 instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, alto sax, bari sax, horn, trumpet, trombone, keyboard, elec bass guitar, drums, 2 violins, viola, cello)
alt version 2 singers + 10 instruments (flute, clarinet, elec. guitar, elec bass guitar, keyboard, drums, string quartet)
band version 2 singers + 6 instruments (cello, two keyboards, elec guitar, elec bass guitar, drums)
commission Albany Symphony Orchestra
premiere May 2010; EMPAC, Troy, NY
David Alan Miller, conductor
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording Outlanders, New Amsterdam Records (2016)
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IS IT DIRTY
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ensemble for full orchestra
(3.3.3.3, 4.3.3.1, timp, 2 perc, 9.9.6.6.3)
duration 10 min
commission New York Youth Symphony
Ryan McAdams, artistic director
premiere Carnegie Hall, December 2011
awards commissioned as a result of the 28th First Music Prize from the New York Youth Symphony
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WORD FOR WORD
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ensemble orchestra (3.2.2.2, 4.2.3.1, timp, 2 perc, str)
duration 6 minutes
written December 2012
commissioned by Albany Symphony Orchestra
premiere September 2012, Palace Theatre, Albany NY
publisher Unsettlement Music
ERASURE SCHERZO
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ensemble large orchestra
(4.4.4.4, 4.3.3.1, 4 perc, timp, pno, hp, str)
duration 25 minutes
written winter 2013
commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic
premiere April 18-21, 2013, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA
Joshua Weilerstein, conductor
publisher Unsettlement Music
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STEM
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ensemble string orchestra (5.4.4.3.2 or greater)
duration 30 minutes
written fall 2012
written for A Far Cry
commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
premiere May 12, 2013, The Gardner Museum, Boston
publisher Unsettlement Music
recording The Law of Mosaics: Music of Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman, Crier Records (2014)
score design by Emily Weidenhof
LAW OF MOSAICS
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ensemble chamber orchestra
duration 13 minutes
written March 2015
commissioned by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
premiere May 16, 2015 at Alex Theater, Glendale CA; May 17, 2015 at Royce Hall, Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, Conductor
publisher Unsettlement Music
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RESPIRATOR
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ensemble full orchestra
duration 16 minutes
written fall 2014
commissioned by San Francisco Symphony and New World Symphony
premiere January 2015, Miami, FL, New World Center
September 2015, San Francisco, CA, Davies Hall
Christian Reif, conductor
publisher Unsettlement Music
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San Francisco Symphony rehearses Dispatches at Davies Hall.
DISPATCHES
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