SKU: BR.EB-9205

World premiere: Donaueschingen, April 25, 2010

ISBN 9790004183632. 11 x 14 inches.

On the broadcast of the film From Dusk Till Dawn, the following note could be read in Gong (German radio and television programme guide) on 21 May: The gangsters Seth (George Clooney) and Richard Gecko (Quentin Tarantino) are on the run. On their way to Mexico, they take the apostate preacher Fuller and his children hostage. On their journey, they end up in Titty Twister Bar, not suspecting that it is peopled by vampires. Well, after deducting some film junk, some typical elements remain: what is past and over, constant new dramatic pair constellations, what is dead and constantly reawakening, the transformations, the troubles and destructions, the final annihilation teeming with destruction etc. Basically, it is a myth of ruin, in whose structure the elements are interchangeable. It could also be told with a coherent material concept, in a historically obsolete manner, in an old-fashioned way, with non-compensation, with flaring abolition yes, does everything always work??? It is good that it only takes place in a bar and that the bar invites us into Titty Twister in attractive neon writing. Restless nature and beauty are at home in the bar today. That facilitates for us the effortlessness of having fun in life. And today there is a special programme my piece Titty Twister for Accordion, Viola, Nepalese Singing Bowl, Pinballs and Mini Dramolettes. Its all expression, isnt it??? Nicolaus A. Huber (2009) CD: Anton Hubert (viola), Wolfgang Dimetrik (accordeon) CD Gramola 98922 Bibliography : Kampe , Gordon: Erinnern und Vergessen. Wechselwirkungen in der Kammermusik Nicolaus A. Hubers, in: Programmbuch ,,Wittener Tage fur neue Kammermusik 2017, S. 42-47, auch abgedruckt in: MusikTexte, Heft 154 (August 2017), pp. 37-39.

World premiere: Donaueschingen, April 25, 2010.

SKU: ST.C493

ISBN 9790570814930.

A short humerous entertainment for a solo singer, accompanied by a bassoon (or two).

Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP288

This song is about a frog,
Sitting (of course) on a log.
She/He is a solitary frog,
looking for a boy/girl frog.

She’s/He’s waiting for a date,
Chances aren’t great,
You hope they don’t get legless
and arrive on a plate,

So to while away the wait,
in a voice that croaks her/his fate
She/He sings of her/his dream tête à tête:

I’m hoping for a ...
Please let him/her come soon.
We would have a ...
Underneath the moon.

Just a little ...
lasting from dusk till dawn,
and then wha’d ya know?
Hey presto: frog-spawn!

SKU: HL.49046935

ISBN 9781705169353. UPC: 842819116837. 9.25x12.0x0.5 inches.

SEVEN DAYS is a cycle for solo piano in 21 movements, most lasting between three and seven minutes, distributed in the form of a custom app produced by the 92Y and released during their Fall 2021 season. Using the app on their phones, listeners are asked to listen to three movements a day according to an approximate schedule - one movement in the morning, one in the afternoon, and another sometime in the evening - for seven days. The music is performed by Pedja Muzijevic and presented alongside paintings by Gloria Maximo. (Please visit 92Y.org for information on how to download the Seven Days app.) The work is designed as a listening experience that tunes us into the passing of time, connecting us both to the present moment as well as the cycle of the week. The experience invites music to inhabit and structure our everyday - to find us where we are in the world. The morning-afternoonevening schedule is meant to focus participants on the dawn-to-dusk cycle as well as to create a communal listening ritual. It is also an experiment in large-scale form, designed to draw attention to musical material developing across a week-long expanse, interspersed with vast silences. SEVEN DAYS was shaped by a year spent in relative isolation due to the pandemic. While it is a work composed during a time of quarantine, it will be experienced first by an audience in the process of returning to a more normal world. In that sense, it is an artwork born out of a year of relatively cloistered existence that seeks to preserve aspects of that experience as we move forward. The piece was also inspired by the work of Morton Feldman and Chantal Akerman, whose large-scale works consider time, process, and stillness. Their art struck me with a fresh relevance during the silent stretches of the pandemic year 2020. It was also a year in which writings about time, penned by contemplatives like Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton, held new weight. All of this in turnresonated with Gloria Maximo's profound paintings, which I've long admired. SEVEN DAYS is an artwork we are invited to do - using music to point our attention to the present moment, the everyday, and the seemingly mundane. It is a piece listeners are also asked to live within as it unfolds over a week rather than to witness it live. The key players here are time and the listener's own surroundings, starring together alongside music and art in a wordless drama. -Gregory Spears.