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 Lipsey – zoomoozophone, 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.
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.
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.
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.
(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)
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