Lawrence Kramer
lkramer@fordham.edu
The following is a complete works list; more detailed information will be added a bit at a time to the "Compositions" section of my page on the AMC website, but I am happy to respond to questions about any of these pieces at any time.
Scores and parts are available in PDF format; please contact me for copies.
Piano Music
Colors of Memory (14 minutes)
Ecstasis: Prelude and Variations (19 minutes)
Illuminations (18 minutes)
Now and Then (10 minutes)
The Wild Swans (11 minutes)
Rhapsody and Dithyramb (11 minutes)
Gandy Dancing (8.5 minutes, four hands)
String Quartets
No. 1: Larghetto (18 minutes)
No. 2: Whirligig and After (15 minutes)
No. 3: Constellations (30 minutes)
No. 4: The Night Sky (16 minutes)
No. 5: Whirligig II and Beyond (16.5 minutes)
No. 6: Dark Matter-Late Light (14 minutes)
Chamber Music
A Clear Midnight for String Sextet (15 minutes)
A Compass Rose (Pierrot ensemble [no voice] and vibraphone) (13 minutes)
A Short History (of the Twentieth Century) for High Voice and 1 or 2 Percussion (11.5 minutes)
A Transformation for Brass Quintet (11.5 minutes)
Apart (English horn and 2 percussion) (10 minutes)
Aubade for solo Harp (7 minutes)
Baker’s Dozen (flute, alto sax, cello, and piano) (multiples of 6 minutes)
Cloud Shadows (bassoon and piano) (8 minutes)
Elsewhere for Oboe and String Trio (10 minutes)
Elsewhere Clarinet and String Quartet) (10 minutes)
Flashes and Specks (flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, vibraphone, percussion, and piano) (10 minutes)
Gandy Dancing (piano four hands and 2 percussion) (10.5 minutes)
A Garden Maze for Wind Quintet (14 minutes)
Horizons for Bass Clarinet and Piano (7.5 minutes)
Horizons for Alto Flute and Piano) (7.5 minutes)
Midnight and Noon (Brass Quintet) (12 minutes)
Night Vision for Piano Trio (20 minutes)
Now and Then (piano and 1 percussion) (10 Minutes)
Prisms (violin, marimba, vibraphone) (14 minutes)
Pulsation for String Trio (17 minutes)
Questions of Travel for Cello and Piano (13 minutes)
Rhapsody for Solo Violin (10 minutes)
Septet ("L'histoire sans soldat) (9 minutes)
Sand Dunes for Solo Flute (11 minutes)
Spiral Stairs for Flute, Cello, and Piano (12 minutes)
Two Nocturnes for Viola and Piano (11 minutes)
Winds and Tides (saxophone quartet) (12 minutes)
Song Cycles
A Ring of Light for high voice and piano (5 songs, original texts) (18 minutes)
Break of Day for high voice and piano (5 songs, texts by Whitman, Dickinson, and Hart Crane) (20 minutes)
Six Songs and an Epilogue from The Wings of the Dove for baritone and piano (22 minutes)
Song Acts for soprano, baritone, and piano (9 songs, texts by Ezra Pound) (40 minutes) (Shorter version: Erat Hora, 4 songs, about 16 minutes).
That Lonesome Whistle for high voice and piano (3 songs, original texts) (11 minutes)
That Music Always Round Me: Three Poems of Walt Whitman for high voice and piano (16 minutes)
The Stillness in the Air: Five Poems of Emily Dickinson for woman's voice and piano (13 minutes)
The Wanderer and his Shadow for high voice and cello (21 songs, texts by Nietzsche) (50 minutes)
Choral
Four Choral Songs (SATB a capella; 11 minutes. Texts by William Carlos Williams)
Five Romantic Lyrics (SATB and oboe/English horn; 15 minutes. Texts by Byron, Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, George Meredith)
Suppose (SSSAA a capella, 7 minutes. Text by Gertrude Stein)
Tribute (TTBB and drums, 6 minutes. Text by Walt Whitman)
Walt Whitman's Broadway (SATB, 6 minutes)
Orchestral
A Clear Midnight for String Orchestra (15 minutes)
Antiphony for Brass and Strings (11 minutes)
Celebration for Orchestra (7 minutes)
Inscape for Orchestra (10 minutes)
Postcard from the Volcano for Orchestra (10 minutes)
What the Thunder Said for Two Trumpets, Timpani, and Strings (14 minutes)
Ursound for Orchestra (20 minutes)