Lawrence Kramer
lkramer@fordham.edu
Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and at Yale, I am self-taught as a composer, although I studied with composer-advisors during three years as a producer of classical music programming on public radio stations while still an undergraduate. I did some composing during the decade of the 1980s, but I am a classic late bloomer: most of the work in my catalogue has been composed since 2006. My music has won competitions held by Composers Concordance, Hartford Opera Theater, Ensemble for These Times, and the Arc Project. My compositions have performed throughout the United States and Europe, from New York to Santa Fe to San Francisco, from London to Vienna to Stockholm.
The following is an extended works list. All scores and parts are available in PDF format; please contact me for copies of works or parts not included in the online library.
My website is http://lkmusic.org.
Piano Music
Colors of Memory: Five Lyric Pieces (19 minutes)
Ecstasis: Prelude and Variations (19 minutes)
Evocations for Piano and Vocalist (22 minutes)
Illuminations: Three Lyric Pieces (18 minutes)
Gandy Dancing (four hands, with optional 2 percussion) (9 minutes)
Now and Then (with optional 1 or 2 percussion, 10 minutes)
One by One: Ten Concert Etudes (27 minutes)
Revenants: 32 Variations (15 minutes)
No Other End of the World (11 minutes)
Sonata from Crossing the Water (16 minutes)
The Glittering Scales (9.5 minutes)
The Wild Swans (11.5 minutes)
Three Lyric Pieces (12 minutes)
Three Soundscapes (14 minutes)
Twelve Concert Etudes (30 minutes)
String Quartets
No. 1: Lighted Windows (17 minutes)
No. 2: Whirligig and After (16 minutes)
No. 3: Beginning with Time (19 minutes)
No. 4: The Night Sky (17 minutes)
No. 5: The Far Field (20 minutes)
No. 6: Dark Matter—Late Light (15 minutes)
No. 7: Mosaics (21 minutes)
No. 8: Reflections and Memories (20 minutes)
Chamber Music
A Compass Rose (flute, clarinet, violin, and cello) (14 minutes)
Almost a Shadow for Violin, Horn, and Piano (6.5 minutes)
Apparitions (Phantom, Ghost Lights, Saint) for soprano, clarinet, violin, and cello) (18 minutes)
A Transformation for Brass Quintet (11.5 minutes)
Cat’s Cradle for Clarinet, Viola, Cello, and Light Percussion (10 minutes)
Cloud Shadows for Violin and Piano (10 minutes)
Elsewhere for Clarinet and String Quartet (10 minutes)
Fantasy for Unaccompanied Violin (6.5 minutes)
Give and Take for Violin and Cello (12 minutes)
Horizons for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano (7.5 minutes)
Nightfall for Violin, Cello, and Piano (9 minutes)
Nightfall for Violin or Viola, Clarinet, and Piano (9 minutes)
Outcry and Elegy for Unaccompanied Violin (14 minutes)
Quintet for Winds (12.5 minutes)
Phantom for Flute and String Trio (8.5 minutes)
Pulsation for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano (16 minutes)
Questions of Travel for Cello and Piano (12.5 minutes)
Rhapsody for Solo Violin (14 minutes)
Ricercar for Unaccompanied Cello (11 minutes)
Septet: L'histoire sans soldat (L'histoire ensemble, 9 minutes)
Sand Dunes for Solo Flute (10.5 minutes)
Soliloqies and Interludes for Unaccompanied Cello (14 minutes)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (16 minutes)
The Ceaseless Rings for Pierrot Ensemble and Drum Set (12 minutes)
The Distances for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano (17.5 minutes)
The Hourglass for Harp and Cello (9 minutes)
The Light Fantastic for Clarinet and Piano (11.5) minutes
The Rings of Saturn for Brass Quintet (10.5 minutes)
The Still Point for Flute, Cello, Piano, and Percussion (11.5 minutes)
Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano (15 minutes)
Trefoil for String Trio (14 minutes)
Wingspan for String Sextet (20 minutes)
Chamber Music with Voice
A Short History (of the Twentieth Century)
(High Voice and 2 Percussion) (17.5 minutes)
Ecospheres
(Baritone and chamber ensemble: flute, clarinet, horn, and string trio) (18 minutes)
Words on the Wind
(High Voice and chamber sensmble: oboe/e.h., clarinet, horn, violin/viola, and cello) (16 minutes)
-- No. 1. The Wind in the Leaves (original text) (6 minutes)
-- No. 2, The Wind Shifts (texts by Wallace Stevens) (10 minutes)
--The Wind Shifts is also available independently for voice (all types) and piano
Song Cycles
Aftermath: Four Songs of the Civil War for high voice and piano
(texts by Daneen Wardrop) (16 minutes)
Another Time for high voice, violin, and cello.
(3 songs, original texts) (15 minutes)
A Ring of Light for high voice and piano
(5 songs, original texts) (18 minutes)
Bearing the Light for high voice and cello.
(10 songs, texts by Nietzsche) (21 minutes)
Break of Day for high voice and piano
(5 songs, texts by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Hart Crane) (20 minutes)
Crossing the Water for soprano, baritone, male speaker, and piano
(Cantata, text by William Carlos Williams) (30 minutes)
Letters from Venice for soprano or baritone and piano
(5 songs, varied texts) (13 minutes)
Nietzsche Fragments
(6 songs for mezzo and cello or baritone and violin, plus piano) (14 minutes)
Nimbus: Two Songs from Drum-Taps for tenor and piano
(texts by Walt Whitman) (9 minutes)
Not-to-Call Night for high voice and piano
(5 songs, texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins) (16 minutes)
Six Songs and an Epilogue from The Wings of the Dove for baritone and piano
(text by Henry James) (20 minutes)
Song Acts, Book I: Angels of Wind and Fire for soprano, baritone, and piano
(6 songs, texts by Ezra Pound) (18 minutes)
Song Acts, Book II: Erat Hora [An Hour There Was] for soprano, baritone, and piano
(6 songs, texts by Ezra Pound) (23 minutes)
--Books I and II may be performed independently or combined in sequence
Songs and Silences for baritone and piano
(8 songs, texts by Wallace Stevens) (18 minutes)
-- Also available for mezzo soprano
That Lonesome Whistle for high voice and piano
(3 songs, original texts) (12 minutes)
"That Music Always Round Me": Three Poems of Walt Whitman
for high voice and piano (18 minutes)
“The Stillness in the Air”: Six Poems of Emily Dickinson
for mezzo soprano and piano (16 minutes)
Stand-Alone Songs
Available in a two books, each containing twenty-one songs for various voice types.
Choral
Chant (SAATBB, wordless) (10 minutes)
Four Medieval Lyrics
(SATB, anonymous texts) (10 minutes)
Five Romantic Lyrics
(SATB and optional oboe/English horn,
texts by Byron, Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Meredith) (15 minutes)
Fragment(s) (SATB, text a single phrase from Keats) (7 minutes)
Part Songs (SATB, quartet or chorus, fragmentary texts) (13 minutes)
Incantation (SATB, textles)(10 minutes)
Premonition (SATB, text by Rainer Maria Rilke) (6 minutes)
The Sea Mew (SATB, text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (5 minutes)
Another Winter's Journey (SATB, text by Edward Thomas) (10 minutes)
Orchestral
Chorale for Strings (7 minutes)
Crossing Paths for String Orchestra (10 minutes)
Fanfares for Orchestra (7 minutes)
The Skaters for Orchestra (10 minutes)
Postcard from the Volcano for Orchestra (10 minutes)
Echolocation for Small Orchestra (10 minutes)
What the Thunder Said for Two Trumpets, Timpani, and Strings
(10 minutes)