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Ezra Sims

Midorigaoka

1978

Scoring

2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello

Duration

15 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Kijima Masataka

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, Japan Composers Assoc., Tokyo, Japan. Conductor: Noda Teruyuki

Solo After Sextet

1981

Scoring

alto saxophone

Duration

15 min

Genre

Music for solo instruments

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

String quartet No. 4

1984

Scoring

string quartet

Duration

15 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Koussevitsky Foundation

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, Muziekcentrum ‘De IJsbreker’, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Huyghens Quartet

Quintet

1987

I. Headlong

II. Placid & Meditative

III. Hell for leather

IV. Solid - sustained and floating

Scoring

clarinet, 2 violins, viola, violoncello

Duration

16:40

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Ian Greitzer

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, First and Second Church, Boston, Mass., USA, USA. Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: Ian Greitzer (clarinet), Cynthia Stutt, Julie Leven (violin), Anne Black (viola), Arnold Friedman (violoncello)

Production

CD: , Ezra Sims: The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims, CRI CR643

Octet for Strings

1964

Scoring

2 string quartets

Duration

17 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Night Piece

In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni

1989

Scoring

flute, clarinet (B flat), viola, violoncello, computer-generated sound

Duration

17 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, First and Second Church, Boston, Mass., USA, USA. Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: Suellen Hershman (flute), Ian Greitzer (clarinet), Anne Black (viola), Michael Curry (violoncello), Don Berman (electronics, Conductor)

Production

CD: , Ezra Sims: The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims, CRI CR643

Concert Piece

1990

Buoyant and insouciant

Still and timeless (nocturnal)

Intensely inward

Excited

Scoring

viola solo, flute, clarinet, violoncello, small orchestra

Duration

17:10

Genre

Orchestral music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Anne Black, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Anne Black (viola), Suellen Hershman (flute), Ian Greitzer (clarinet), Beth Pearson (violoncello), Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Conductor: Gisele Ben-Dor

Production

CD: , Ezra Sims: The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims, CRI CR643

Phenomena

1981

Scoring

clarinet, flute, violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

18 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Boston Musica Viva

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Boston Musica Viva, Conductor: Richard Pittman

Night Unto Night

1984

Scoring

3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trombones

Duration

20 min

Genre

Orchestral music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Come Away

5 songs

1978

Scoring

mezzo-soprano, clarinet (B flat), viola
flute (alto flute) (G), French horn, trombone, double-bass

Duration

20:40

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Text / Libretto

Campion, Fletcher, Hardy, Whitman

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

, First and Second Church, Boston, Mass., USA, USA. Laurel Stavis (mezzo-soprano), Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Conductor: Scott Wheeler

Production

CD: , James Dashow / Bruce Saylor / Ezra Sims: Vocal Works, CRI CR578