Ezra Sims

Flourish

1975

Scoring

oboe, violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

1:30

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

03/1976, Old South Meeting House, Boston, Mass., USA. Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: Peggy Pearson (oboe), Janet Packer (violin), Linda Kirkwood (viola), Deborah Thompson (violoncello)

From an Oboe Quartet

1971

Scoring

computer-generated sound

Duration

7 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Premiere

1971, AI Lab, MIT, Boston, Mass., USA

II Variations

1973

Scoring

oboe, violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

5 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

05/1974, MUSIC HERE AND NOW, MFA, Boston, Mass., USA. Ken Roth (oboe), Janet Packer (violin), David Schreiber (viola), Deborah Thompson (violoncello)

If I Told Him

1996

Scoring

alto, violoncello

Duration

13 min

Genre

Solo vocal music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Commission

Christina Ascher and Christoph von Erffa

Text / Libretto

Gertrude Stein

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

02/1997, Akademie für Musik, Darmstadt, Germany. Christina Ascher (alto), Christoph von Erffa (violoncello)

Production

CD: 2010, Ezra Sims: Musing and Reminiscence, New World Records 80709

Im Mirabell

2006

Scoring

baritone, flute, clarinet (B flat), violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

3 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Language

German

Text / Libretto

Georg Trakl

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

2006, Killian Hall, MIT, Boston, Mass., USA. Avery Griffin (baritone), NotaRiotous, Conductor: James Bergin

Im Mirabell

2008

Scoring

baritone, flute, clarinet (B flat), violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

12 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Language

German

Text / Libretto

Georg Trakl

—

Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

04/20/2008, St. Pauls Cathedral, Boston, Mass., USA. Avery Griffin (baritone), NotaRiotous, Conductor: James Bergin

Description

Erweiterte Version

Im roten Laubwerk

2006

Scoring

baritone, flute, clarinet (B flat), violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

1:10

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Language

German

Text / Libretto

Georg Trakl

In Memoriam Alice Hawthorne

1967

Scoring

narrator, tenor, baritone, 3 clarinets (B flat), bass clarinet (B flat), French horn, marimbaphone (2 marimbaphones)

Duration

9 min

Genre

Vocal music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Language

English

Text / Libretto

Edward Gorey

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

01/1977, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass., USA. Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Raymond Hardin (tenor), Gilbert High (baritone), Ezra Sims (narrator), Conductor: Eric Culver

Invocation

1992

Scoring

singing voice, 3 flutes, viola, double-bass, quarter-tone guitar

—

singing voice, 3 flutes, viola, double-bass, keyboard

Duration

6 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Quarter tone system

Commission

IMS – International Microtone Society, Bern

Premiere

02/12/1993, Französische Kirche, Bern, Switzerland. IMS – International Microtone Society, Conductor: Bernhard Grossenbacher

Landscape

2008

Scoring

flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello

Duration

12 min

Genre

Chamber music

Tone system

Twelfth tone system

Publisher

Frog Peak Music

Premiere

11/14/2008, Boston, Mass., USA. Boston Musica Viva, Conductor: Richard Pittman