DEAN DRUMMOND

dd@deandrummond.com
 
COMPOSITIONS AND SELECTED PERFORMANCES

Large works

 

The Golden Bird (2009) - for narrator, eight microtonal soloists and orchestra - text by Ruby Stardrum     

Premiere: Montclair State University Orchestra, Paul Hostetter – conductor, with soloists from Newband (Beth Griffith – narrator; Bill Ruyle – diamond marimba; Joe Bergen – bamboo marimba; David Broome – synthesizer; Koe Fee, Jared Soldiviero & Michael Lipseyzoomoozophone, Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 4-23-09. 

 

Café Buffé (2006) - chamber opera for five singers, dancers, eighteen instrumentalists: flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet,

trombone, violin, bass, microtonally programmed synthesizer, chromelodeon,4 harmonic canons (2 players),

diamond marimba/spoils of war/justrokerods/percussion, bamboo marimba/percussion,  zoomoozophone (4 players), drums – libretto by Charles Bernstein

Commissioned by Mary Flagler Cary Trust, New York State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts.  Publisher: Hypersound...46 minutes

 

Phil Harmonic (2002)—for orchestra: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, alto saxophone, 2 horns, 2 trumpets,

2 trombones, chromelodeon, zoomoozophone, timpani, percussion (1), strings. 
Premiere: Montclair State University Orchestra, Dean Drummond - conductor, Memorial Auditorium, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, 4-7-04.  

Commissioned by Montclair State University.  Publisher: Hypersound...7 minutes

 

For the Last Laugh (1998)---suite from the film score The Last Laugh---for ten players: flutes; cello; trumpet; chromelodeon,

microtonally programmed synthesizer; four harmonic canons (two players); four percussionists: (1) kithara, bass marimba,

Balinese angklungs, rhythm boat; (2) zoomoozophone, bongos; (3) zoomoozophone, spoils of war, Chinese cymbals and

tom tom, steel bowl, Peking opera gong, sleigh bells; (4) diamond marimba, boo, juststrokerods, hi-hat
Commissioned by the Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Fund and Bruce Ide;   Co-commissioned by Wexner Center for the Arts, Library of Congress

& American Museum of the Moving Image. Publisher: Hypersound...75 minutes

 

The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) (1996)---live film score for 1924 silent film of same name by F.W. Murnau---for ten players: flutes; cello; trumpet; chromelodeon, microtonally programmed synthesizer; four harmonic canons (two players);

four percussionists: (1) kithara, bass marimba, Balinese angklungs, rhythm boat; (2) zoomoozophone, bongos;

(3) zoomoozophone, spoils of war, Chinese cymbals and tom tom, steel bowl, Peking opera gong, sleigh bells;

(4) diamond marimba, boo, juststrokerods, hi-hat. 

Premiere: Newband, Dean Drummond - conductor, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 9-28-96; also performed at The Library of Congress and The Kitchen. 

Commissioned by the Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Fund and Bruce Ide; Co-commissioned by Wexner Center for the Arts, Library of Congress

& American Museum of the Moving Image.  Publisher: Hypersound...88 minutes.

reviews of The Last Laugh
 

Chamber works with special instrument requirements

 

M.S. Genitron (2001)---for ten players: juststrokerods, 2 chromelodeons, harmonic double canon, kithara, crychord,

zoomoozophone, diamond marimba, bamboo marimba, bass marimba, marimba eroica, cone gongs, spoils of war. 

Premiere: MSU Harry Partch Ensemble, Montclair State University, 4-6-03.  Commissioned by Montclair State University.   Publisher: Hypersound...8 minutes

 

 

Congressional Record (1999)---for baritone and eight players: wind controller MIDI'd to microtonal synthesizer,

chromelodeon, adapted guitar, harmonic canons, diamond marimba, boo, juststrokerods and zoomoozophone

texts by Dean Drummond from U.S. Congressional Record. 

Premiere: Newband, Peter Stewart - baritone, Washington Square Church,  New York, NY, 6-4-99.  Commissioned by Newband, as part of participation in

Chamber Music America's A Musical Celebration of the Millennium.  Support for concerts, residency work and commissions, that are part of this project

comes from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, Susan W. Rose Fund for Music,

The Helen F. Whitaker Fund and the CMA Endowment Fund.  Publisher: Hypersound...14 minutes

Recorded on Innova 561 - NEWBAND

 


Four Miniatures (1997): Syncopation in Glass and Talking Bowls for cloud chamber bowls (solo); Bow, Chords and

Zoom and Three Dream Fragments for zoomoozophone (duet).                 

Commissioned by MTV/Viacom, produced by Jaye Nydick, directed by Trish Govoni---Publisher: Hypersound...4 minutes.
 

 

Before the Last Laugh (1995) for seven players: flute; cello; microtonally programmed synthesizer; three harmonic

canons (two players); two percussionists: (1) zoomoozophone, bongos; (2) zoomoozophone, Chinese cymbals and

tom tom, steel bowl, Peking opera gong. 

Premiere: Newband, Dean Drummond - conductor, 10-14-95 at the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 10-14-95; also performed at

Festival of New American Music (Sacramento), The Barbican Centre (London, UK), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK)

& Miller Theatre at Columbia University (NYC) Publisher: Hypersound...13 minutes.

Recorded on Innova 561 - NEWBAND

 

 

The Day the Sun Stood Still (1994) for nine players: flute; trumpet; cello; microtonally programmed synthesizer;

harmonic canons; four percussionists: (1) kithara, bass marimba, rhythm boat, Balinese angklungs;

(2) diamond marimba, spoils, hi-hat, bongos; (3) boo, juststrokerods, zoomoozophone, Balinese angklungs;

(4) zoomoozophone, Balinese angklung             

Premiere: Newband, conducted by Dean Drummond, 11-8-94, Purchase College, State University of New York.  Also performed by Newband at Miller Theatre (NYC)

and Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), 2-2-95.  Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University...Publisher: Hypersound...15 minutes.
 

 

Dance of the Seven Veils (1992) for six players: flute; cello; chromelodeon, microtonally programmed synthesizer;

three percussionists: diamond marimba, digital drums, zoomoozophone, juststrokerods, sleigh bells, Chinese

cymbals and gongs, claves, bongos, steel bowl, small metal thunder sheet; (2) three harmonic canons,

zoomoozophone, juststrokerods, marimba eroica, Chinese cymbals and gongs, cone gongs; (3) zoomoozophone,

boo; spoils, cone gongs, marimba eroica, bloboy, hi-hat. 

Premier: Newband, conducted by Dean Drummond, 11-13-92 at Miller Theatre at Columbia University (NYC) - also performed by Newband: at the

Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre, (Wash,  DC), USArts Festival at Podewil (Berlin, Germany), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio),

Library of Congress (Wash., DC), The Barbican Centre (London, UK), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK),

Merkin Concert Hall (NYC); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis).  Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Library of Congress.

Publisher: Hypersound...19 minutes.

Recorded on Music and Arts CD 931

 

 

Different Drums for Different Strokes (1988) - percussion solo: digital drums, microtonally programmed synthesizer,

juststrokerods, triangles, steel bowl, Chinese gongs and cymbals, hi-hat, bongos, Chinese tom tom, large tambourine,

bass drum. 

Premiere: Dominic Donato, Symphony Space, New York, NY, 11-18-88 - also performed by: Dominic Donato at De IJsbreker (Amsterdam),

Bang on a Can Festival (NYC); Daniel Druckman at Miller Theatre at Columbia University; David Johnson at Lace (Los Angeles). Commissioned by Dominic Donato.  

Publisher: Hypersound...11 minutes.

Recorded on Mode #33
 

 

Incredible Time (to live and die) (1988) for five players: amplified flute, microtonally programmed synthesizer,

three percussionists: (1) zoomoozophone, Chinese cymbals; (2) zoomoozophone, Chinese gongs, steel bowl;

(3) zoomoozophone, Chinese cymbals, sleigh bells, large tambourine, wood block, digital drums. 

Premiere: Newband, Third Coast New Music Project, San Antonio, Texas, 6-10-88 - also performed by Newband at World Music Days (Oslo)

& De IJsbreker (Amsterdam), Symphony Space (NYC), Miller Theatre (NYC), Miller Theatre at Columbia University (NYC), Festival of New American Music (Sacramento).

Publisher: Hypersound...13 minutes.

Recorded on Mode #18
 

 

Ruby Half Moon (1987) for 2 trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, four percussionists:

(1) zoomoozophone, hi-hat, Chinese cymbalsand gong, Javanese temple blocks, bongos, steel bowls;

(2) zoomoozophone, Chinese cymbals, water gong; (3) zoomoozophone, Chinese cymbals, cowbell;

(4) zoomoozophone, Chinese cymbals, sleigh bells, cowbell, large tambourine, wood block. 

Premiere: Newband, cond. by Dean Drummond, SAGE, Croton Falls, NY, 6-14-87 - also performed by Newband at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (NYC)

& Symphony Space (NYC) and by the New Music Consort at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (NYC), Merkin Concert Hall (NYC).   Publisher: Hypersound...13 minutes.

 

 

Then or Never (1984) for flute, viola, double bass, 3 percussionists: zoomoozophone (three players). 

Premiere: Newband, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY, 3-3-85 - also performed by Newband at Symphony Space (NYC), Miller Theatre at Columbia University (NYC).  

Publisher: Hypersound...9 minutes.

Recorded on Mode #18

 

Mysteries - Septet Version (1983) - flute, bass trombone, five percussionists: (1-4) zoomoozophone (four players);

(5) Thai finger cymbals, whiskey bottle, cup gongs, Chinese cymbals and gongs, thunder sheets, large tambourine.

Premiere: Newband, Dean Drummond - conductor, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY, 4-5-84 - also performed by Newband on New York Philharmonic Horizons at

Avery Fisher Hall (NYC).   Publisher: Hypersound...9 minutes.
 

 

Mysteries - Quintet Version (1983) - five percussionists: (1-4) zoomoozophone (four players); (5) Thai finger cymbals,

whiskey bottle, cup gongs, Chinese cymbals and gongs, thunder sheets, large tambourine. 

Premiere: Newband, Gordon Gottlieb - conductor, Symphony Space, New York, NY, 5-15-83
 

 

Mysteries - Octet Version (1982/6) - flute, violin, cello, five percussionists: (1-4) zoomoozophone (four players);

(5) Thai finger cymbals, whiskey bottle, cup gongs, Chinese cymbals and gongs, thunder sheets, large tambourine.

Publisher: Hypersound...9 minutes.
 

 

Columbus(1980) - flute, three percussionists: zoomoozophone (three players). 

Premiere: Stefani Starin & Friends, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY, 2-22-81 - also performed by Newband on New York Philharmonic New Horizons at

Avery Fisher Hall, New York, NY; Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY; Symphony Space, New York, NY; New Music America, Houston, Texas);

The Third Coast New Music Project, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.  Publisher: Hypersound...10 minutes.

Recorded on Mode #18

 

 

Little Columbus (1979) - Part 1 of Columbus (1980) - two percussionists: zoomoozophone (two players). 

Premiere: Newband,  Theatre of the New City, New York, NY, 5-29-79 - also performed by Newband at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY;

Quebec '84, Quebec City, Canada; The International Convention of the Percussive Arts Society, New York, NY.   Publisher: Hypersound...4 minutes.
 

 

Columbus Fullmoon (1979/85)---percussion solo: zoomoozophone

Premiere: Tracie Howard, Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY, 1-20-87 - also performed by Dean Drummond at Manhattan School of Music (NYC).   Publisher: Hypersound...4 minutes.
 

 

Copégoro (1978) - percussion solo: zoomoozophone, wood block, Chinese cymbals, Chinese gongs, large tambourine,

8 almglocken. 

Premiere: Richard Sacks, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 3-12-79 - also performed by: Gary Schall at Symphony Space (NYC)

& the International Convention of the Percussive Arts Society (NYC) and Dominic Donato at Manhattan School of Music.  Publisher: Hypersound...8 minutes.
 


 

Chamber works with relatively normal instrument requirements:

 

My Data's Gone (1997)  for bass and microtonally programmed synthesizer; lyrics by Charles Bernstein. 

Premiere: Newband, Robert Osborne - bass-baritone, Washington Square Church, New York, NY, 6-4-99. Publisher: Hypersound...3 minutes.

 


It Must Be Time (1997) for soprano and microtonally programmed synthesizer; lyrics by Charles Bernstein.

Premiere: Newband, Dora Ohrenstein - soprano,Washington Square Church, New York, NY, 6-4-99---Publisher: Hypersound...4 minutes.

 

 

Precious Metals (1997) for solo flute. 

Multiple premieres at National Flute Association Convention, August 1998, Phoenix.  Commissioned by the National Flute Association.  Publisher: Hypersound...7 minutes.

 

Mars Face (1997) for violin and microtonally programmed synthesizer. 

Premiere:  Newband, Jacqui Carrasco - violin, Christopher Oldfather - synthesizer, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 3-11-98.  Commissioned by the McKim Fund,

Library of Congress.   Publisher: Hypersound...11 minutes. 

review

(NASA: The Face on Mars)    (Alternative view from the University of Arizona)

 

 

Dirty Ferdie - Octet Version (1981) - eight percussionists: (1) glockenspiel, piccolo wood block;

(2) vibraphone, wooden wind chimes, Chinese cymbals, sleigh bells; (3) 29 chromatic almglocken; 5 bongos;

(4) 18 chromatic almglocken, wood block, tom toms; (5) chimes, xylophone; (6) 5 triangles; marimba;

(7) Chinese gongs, crotales, 4 cup gongs; (8) stroke rods, 4 large gongs/tam tams, large thunder sheet; bass drum. 

Premiere: Peabody Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, Jonathon Haas - conductor, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland, 4-22-86 - also performed by the

Peabody Conservatory Percussion Ensemble at Symphony Space, New York, NY.   Publisher: Hypersound...9 minutes.

 

 

Post Rigabop Mix (1977) - flute solo 

Premiere: Stefani Starin, New York University, NYC, 11-3-77 - also performed by: Stefani Starin at Carnegie Hall & Merkin Concert Hall and by Wendy Rolfe at

Manhattan School of Music.   Publisher: Hypersound...5 minutes.
   

 

Dirty Ferdie - Quartet Version - (1976) - four percussionists:

(1) vibraphone, glockenspiel, piccolo wood block, wooden wind chimes, Chinese cymbals, sleigh bells;

(2) 47 chromatic almglocken; 5 bongos, wood block, tom toms; (3) chimes, 5 triangles, marimba;

(4) Chinese gongs, crotales, 4 cup gongs, stroke rods, 4 large gongs/tam tams, large thunder sheet; bass drum. 

Premiere: New Music Consort, Claire Heldrich- conductor, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, NY, 2-18-82 - also performed by Talujon at Washington Square Church, New York, New York;

Newband at SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY and The Kitchen, New York, NY; and by the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble, Daniel Druckman - conductor, Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY.  

Publisher: Hypersound...9 minutes.

Recorded on Talujon TCD001
 

 

Zurrjir (1976) - flute, clarinet, piano/celeste, three percussionists: (1) vibraphone, glockenspiel, xylophone;

(2) crotales, triangles, 5 bongos, tom tom, bass drum, large tambourine;

(3) Chinese cymbals and gongs, leaf springs (or chimes), piccolo wood block, Chinese temple blocks. 

Premiere: California New Music Ensemble, Dean Drummond - conductor, Ventura College, Ventura, California, 1-20-76…also performed by: Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood;

The Group for Contemporary Music, Charles Wuorinen - conductor at Manhattan School of Music; Newband at the Museum of Modern Art;

& Cal Arts New Century Players, David Rosenboom - conductor at the Japan America Theatre, Los Angeles.   Publisher: Hypersound...7 minutes.
 


Cloud Garden II (1974) - piano/celeste/almglocken (1 player)

Premiere: Louis Goldstein, KPFK, Los Angeles, 10-12-74 - also performed by Louis Goldstein on Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles, CA; at the Los Angeles County Art Museum

& at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY; and by Vicki Ray at Pianospheres, Los Angeles, CA.   Publisher: Hypersound...9 minutes.

 

 

Cloud Garden I (1974/9) - flute, piano, four percussionists: (1) glockenspiel, (2) vibraphone; (3) crotales, almglocken,

(4) vibraphone, marimba. 
 Premiere: California New Music Ensemble, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, 3-1-74, - also performed by Newband at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY. 

Publisher: Hypersound...6 minutes. 

 

 

Ghost Tangents (1973/5) - prepared piano, three percussionists:

(1) vibraphone, leaf springs (or brake drums), cymbals, hi-hat, miscellaneous metal;

(2) crotales, wood blocks, tambourine, bongos, tom toms, almglocken, miscellaneous metal;

(3) tam tams, almglocken, triangles, 2 bass drums, miscellaneous metal. 

Premiere: California New Music Ensemble, Reed College, Portland, OR, 3-11-73 - also performed by: the California New Music Ensemble on

Monday Evening Concerts at the Los Angeles County Art Museum; the Blackearth Percussion Group at Contemporary Art Museum (Paris), American Academy in Rome,

WDR Radio (Cologne) and Witten Festival (West Germany); and by Newband at New York University and the New York Open Center.  Publisher: Hypersound...8 minutes.

 

 

Fission (1972) - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, harp, vibraphone, violin, viola, cello

Publisher: Hypersound...6 minutes

 

 

Dedication (1972) - oboe, harp, string quartet, double bass, three percussionists:

(1)  glockenspiel, timpani, bongos, tom toms, tam tam; (2) vibraphone, temple blocks;

(3) tam tam, temple blocks, marimba, chimes. 

Premiere: Cal Arts Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, John Bergamo - conductor, 5-11-72, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.  Publisher: Hypersound...5 minutes.
 

 

Organ Toccata (1971) - pipe organ solo

Premiere: Kevin Bowyer - organ, Glasgow Unibversity Chapel, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 6--07-07.   Publisher: Hypersound...10 minutes.

 


Bertrans de Born (1971) - bass-baritone, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano/celeste, string quartet,

double bass.

Premiere: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 5-24-71.   Publisher: Hypersound...13 minutes.

 

Ni Kioku (1971) - flute, celeste, harp, violin, cello; two percussionists: (1) cymbals, tam tam, rattle, Chinese temple blocks;

(2) viraphone, marimba, Chinese temple blocks, cymbal.

Premiere: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 5-24-71 - also performed by Newband at the New York Open Center.   Publisher: Hypersound...8 minutes.
 

 

Suite for Clarinet (1970) - clarinet solo. 

Premiere: David Peck, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 5-24-71 - also performed by Richard Stolzman at Yale University and California Institute of the Arts

& Allen Blustine at the New York Open Center Publisher: Western International Music...12 minutes. 
 
 

Arrangements

 

Naima (1994) - composed by John Coltrane - arranged for alto flute, chromelodeon, harmonic canon, kithara,

zoomoozophone (two players)

Publisher: Hypersound.

 

 

'Round Midnight (1990/93) - composed by Thelonius Monk - arranged for cello and zoomoozophone (three players)

Publisher: Hypersound

Recorded on Mode #33.

 

Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (1978) - composed by Harry Partch - arranged for flute and

zoomoozophone (two players)

Publisher: Hypersound

Recorded on Mode #18

 

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