
History
Film Scores
- 2008 Noise by Henry
Bean.
- 2007 Stolen Life by
Peter Rasmussen & Jackie Turnure.
- 2004 Frames by Henry
Corra and Charlene
Rhule. (conductor/supervisor)
- 2001 Mackenheim by
Adam Barr.
- 2000 Sana Que Sana
by Ron Daniels.
- 1995 Faithful by
Paul Mazursky.
- 1994 Umbrellas by
Henry Corra, Grahame Weinbren,
& Albert Maysles.
- 1993 The Music of Chance
by Philip Haas.
- 1992 The Clean Up by
Jane Weinstock.
- 1992 Money Man by
Philip Haas.
- 1989 Money by Doris
Dorrie.
- 1988 What Then by
John Inwood.
- 1988 How To Be Louise
by Ann Flournoy.
- 1987 When, If Not Now
by Michael
Juncker.(songs only)
- 1986 Paradise by
Doris Dorrie.(songs
only)
- 1984 Committed by
Lynne Tillman and Sheila
McLaughlin.
Silent Film Scores
- 2002 Faust (1926) by
F.W. Murnau, commissioned by Film Society of Lincoln Center, premiered
at Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center for the 2002 New York Film
Festival.
- 1998 Page of Madness(1926)
by Teinosuke Kinugasa, commissioned by Film Society of Lincoln Center,
premiered at Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center.
- 1997 The Georges Melies Project
(1907-1912) commissioned by the American Museum of the Moving Image,
premiered at Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center.
- 1993 The Unknown
(1927) by Tod Browning, commissioned by and premiered at the American
Museum of the Moving Image.
Radio
- 1980-98 regular live performances on
WNYC-FM, WKCR-FM, WFMU-FM, KCRW-FM, and others.
- 1991 incidental music for NPR's Fresh
Air (note: that the main title theme music for Fresh
Air was composed by Joel Forrester, and performed by The
Microscopic Septet.)
- 1985 theme music for NPR's Poetry
International & WBAI's Readings From The
St. Marks Poetry Project
Dance
- 2002 Good Girl Daddy
by Keely Garfield, Duke Theater on 42nd St., NYC
- 2001 A Fishy Tale by
Keely Garfield, Dance Theater Workshop/World Trade Center
- 2000 Rub Me The Wrong Way
by Keely Garfield, 92nd Street Y
- 1999 Minor Repairs Necessary
by Keely Garfield, Dance Theater Workshop
- 1999 Past Caring
(with Bob Montalto) by Keely Garfield, Dance Theater Workshop
- 1998 The Further Adventures of
Slap and Tickle by Keely Garfield, Dance Theater Workshop
- 1998 Thirty by Guta
Hedewig, Danspace
- 1997 The Adventures of Slap
& Tickle by Keely Garfield, Sinister Slapstick,
Lincoln Center.
- 1996 The Predators' Ball
by Karole Armitage, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- 1986 Persons With Slumber
by Emily Schottland, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC
- 1985 Falling Girl by
Emily Schottland, DTW
- 1980-90 Original commissioned works for
Arnette DeMille, Geri Atwood (Dance Elements), Daniel Peters, Emily
Schottland, Della Davidson. (DTW, Merce Cunninham Studio, PS 122)
Theater
- 2007 Not Like Beckett,
by Michael Watts, NORPA, Lismore.
- 2007 Macbeth, by
William Shakespeare, Bell Shakespeare Company. Sydney, AU
- 2006 Merchant of Venice,
by William Shakespeare, Bell Shakespeare Company. Sydney, AU
- 2005 Measure For Measure,
by William Shakespeare, Bell Shakespeare Company. Sydney, AU
- 2005 Twelfth Night,
by
William Shakespeare, QUT, Brisbane, AU
- 2005 The War of the Roses,
by William Shakespeare, Bell Shakespeare Company, Sydney
- 2002 Comedy of Errors
by W. Shakespeare. Bell Shakespeare Co., Sydney, AU
- 2002 The Anatomy Lesson of
Doctor Ruysch by Hilary Bell. Vitalstatistix, Adelaide, AU
- 2000 Drawn To Death: A Three
Panel Opera with Art Spiegelman. Art at St. Ann's
- 2000 The Falls by
Hilary Bell. The Griffin Theatre, Sydney, AU
- 1997 Stepping Out With Mr.
Markham by Jeanne Dorsey. Soho Rep, NYC
- 1996 Venus by
Suzan-Lori Parks. Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven. Public Theatre,
NYC.
- 1995 Young Goodman Brown
by R. Foreman. LaMaMa Theatre, NYC.
- 1990 Rain, Some Fish, No
Elephants by Y York. New Theatre, Brooklyn.
Television/
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Broward Hospitals |
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Performance
Richard Foreman,
Eugene Chadbourne,
John Zorn,
Peter Stampfel & the Bottlecaps,
Julius Eastman,
Bobby Previte,
Charles K. Noyes,
Elliott Sharp,
the dBs,
Mikel Rouse/Broken Consort,
ROVA Saxophone Quartet,
Lenny Pickett's Borneo Horns,
Butch Morris,
Tom Cora
Wayne Horvitz,
Robin Holcomb
J.A. Deane,
Shelley Hirsch,
The Raybeats,
Mofungo,
Tirez Tirez,
Bobby Radcliff,
Kitty Brazelton's DaDaDa
Bob Holman,
Pat Irwin,
Guy Klucevsek,
The Walter Thompson Orchestra,
Nora York,
Earl King,
Edgar Grana,
Yael Strom,
the Metropolitan Klezmer Orchestra,
The Kustard Kings,
Bands I have led or co-led:
Phillip Johnston & the Coolerators
SNAP
Fast 'N' Bulbous
The Transparent Quartet
Big Trouble
The Microscopic Septet
Twilight Time
The Public Servants
The Greasy Chicken Orchestra
The Blue Lounge
Joy Ridin'
The Swinging Phoenicians
The Casual Geniuses
Tours of Europe, Canada and the U.S. with the
Microscopic Septet,
Big Trouble, and The Transparent Quartet.
Perfomances include: JVC Jazz Festival (3x), Town
Hall (NYC),
Lincoln Center, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Sun Valley Jazz Festival,
Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Roulette, Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall, Montreal Jazz Festival, Tampere Jazz Festival,
Berlin Jazz Festival, Musica delle Ombre Festival (Rome), Vancouver
Jazz
Festival, Groningen Jazz Festival.
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