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Demo
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Piece
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Premiere |
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You're Still In Love
Musical Theater - Piano and Vocal Duet
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2005 |
October 16, 2005
A Beat Ahead - NYC |
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One Of Thousands
Musical Theater - Piano and Vocals
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2005 |
October 16, 2005
A Beat Ahead - NYC |
MIDI
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The
Last Communication of Samuel F.B. Morse
Piano
I wrote this piece with Matt Walton using an
experimental compositional technique. Though not necissarily
ground breaking, writing the piece one measure at a time, (alternating
measures, he wrote the first, third fifth etc., I wrote the second,
fourth sixth etc.), it was none the less and interesting way to compose
a piece of music. In the end the piece is unique in it's
compositional fingerprint and also has a surprising continuity to it.
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2004 |
This piece has yet to be
premiered.
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Live/
Studio
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Jack
and Jill The Musical
Musical - 4 Singers and
Jazz Trio
See the website for
detailed information.
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2001-2004
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February 28th , 2007
Staged Reading - York Theater
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Studio
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Two
Cabaret Songs
- In My Dreams
- I Need The Man
Musical Theater
In My
Dreams is for tenor and I Need the Man is for Soprano Belter and
Baritone. I produced a recording of these songs in my home
studio. I wrote the music and the lyrics, though I admittedly had
a little more success with the former. The demo is of In My
Dreams.
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2001 |
This
project was intended as a recording project. It was recorded in
early 2001 |
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Lifeskills
of an Eagle
Band, CD and Chorus
This is a piece commissioned by
the Society for New Music for a program called Composers In The
Schools. This was an interesting collaboration between myself and
the students at Elmwood Elementary School in Syracuse, NY. The
kids wrote the lyrics and I guided them through the process of writing
a melody to their lyrics. I finished off the arrangements, added
a prologue and postlude for the band and a dance number for the dance
group and the kids rehearsed and performed it for their school
community.
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2000-2001
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April 6, 2001
Elmwood Elementary School
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The
Hoard
Soprano, Piano, Horn, Clarinet
The
lyrics for this piece is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien. This
is a five movement chamber piece written specifically for Brenda
McDonald to be performed at her senior voice recital.
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2000 |
April 7, 2001
Brenda McDonald
Syracuse University
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Bassooner
or Later
Fugue
for Woodwind Quintet
Woodwind Quintet
These are two educational pieces
commissioned by David Ross, Bassoonist of the Syracuse Symphony.
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2000 |
???
(I know it's been
performed, I suppose I should find out when it was premiered)
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Departure
Soprano and Piano
Originally intended to be the
first movement in a suite, this piece with lyrics by my sister, Lori
Loffredo, ended up just being a singleton.
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2000 |
April, 1, 2000
Shaina Murphy and Jason
Loffredo
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Live
(2nd
Mvt.)
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Downside
Up and Outside In
Narrator, Flute, Clarinet, Marimba/Vibes, Cello
This is a four movement chamber
piece set to 11 poems by Shel Silverstein which are narrated throughout
the piece. This is a piece where every combination of
instrumentation is taken advantage of to match with the diversity of
moods in all of the poems.
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1999 |
February 24, 2000
Syracuse University
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Live
(2nd
Mvt.)
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Broken
Glass - A Movement in Three
Pieces
Alto Saxophone and Piano
This is a
piece that I wrote for a really good saxophone player I knew in
college. This piece uses a handful of advanced compositional and
performance techniques including 12 tone rows, minimalism, quarter
tones and circular breathing (for the saxophone player of
course). Surprisingly, all of these techniques blend into a
pretty picture on a whole, sort of like a pile of broken stained glass.
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1999 |
October, 1999
Steve Defren and Jason
Loffredo
Syracuse University
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Alleluia,
Praise The Lord
Voice and Piano
This song just about
completes my repertoire of Contemporary Christian Pop music.
Actually, it did end up being a Sunday Morning Live favorite.
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1999 |
April, 1999
Lutheran Church of
Atonement
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A
Dream of Retarded Children
Soprano w/live voice processor and Synthesizer
This piece is set to text by
Robert Bly, whom actually wrote back in response to a request for
permission to record the piece and told me he thought the music "sounds
like a bunch of Stalinists in 1942 trying to be capitalists." (I
can't win 'em all). The Synthesizer uses a lot of sound effects
and is presented in quadraphonic sound.
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1998 |
March, 1999
Shaina Murphy and Jason
Loffredo
Syracuse University
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Live
(5th
Mvt.)
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War
Suite
Soprano and Piano
This piece is a five movement
suite which draws texts from such varying sources as the Bible to
Wilfred Owen to myself. With theater at the heart of this piece,
War Suite takes a journey through the mind of a warrior before, during
and after a battle. It explores the massive mood swings
associated with war from prayer to anger to solace. There is a
little bit of inside-the-piano playing in this piece, but no "prepared
piano". Eventually, I would like to expand this piece for
orchestra and possibly chorus.
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1998 |
December, 1998
Kathryn Tremper
and Jason Loffredo
Syracuse University
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Three
Short Moods
Alto Saxophone and Piano
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1998 |
October, 1998
Syracuse University
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The
Fugal Gourmet
Two performers with tables of food
Yes, that's right, this piece
actually uses food as instruments. On our first collaboration
together, Matt Walton and I decided to go the experimental route.
This piece is actually a transcription of a Bach Two-Part
Invention. All of the pitches in the piece were first transfered
to about 12 notes minus accidentals and with an absence of octave
differential. Then each "pitch" was replaced by the sound of a
specific food either being eaten, chopped, rustled, opened,
etc... For example, the sound of a carrot being bitten, or the
sound of ice falling in a glass, or a cucumber being chopped.
Each performer had the same set up, and so you could listen and watch
the fugue unfold as the performers move from side to side on their
tables. I'm proud to claim that this is perhaps, the messiest
piece of music ever written.
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1998 |
March, 1998
Matt Walton and Jason
Loffredo
Syracuse University
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Psalm
86
Psalm
116
SATB Chorus and Piano
Two Psalm
settings that I never had the chance to get performed. Psalm 86
is admittedly a lot better than Psalm 116.
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1997 |
These
pieces have yet to be premiered. |
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Design
- Soprano
On
A Bird Singing In Its Sleep - Mezzo
Revelation
- Tenor
Fire
And Ice - Bass
Nothing
Gold Can Stay - SATB
Four Singers and Piano
These pieces are all set to poems
by Robert Frost. They were intended to be performed together with
all four singers, but only Design and Fire and Ice got performed, and
as separate pieces.
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1997 |
Design - December, 1998
Fire and Ice - October,
1999
Syracuse University
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