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Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
The Convergence: Notes on the Plague Year 2020	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble		10:00:00	The Convergence: Notes on the Plague Year 2020
Twelve Concert Etudes	Keyboard		35:00:00	Twelve Concert Etudes
Reflections and Memories: String Quartet no. 8	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice		21:00:00	Reflections and Memories: String Quartet no. 8   Reflections and Memories: String Quartet no. 8   Reflections and Memories: String Quartet no. 8   Reflections and Memories: String Quartet no. 8   Reflections and Memories: String Quartet no. 8
Beginning with Time: String Quartet no. 3	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice		00:20:00	Beginning with Time: String Quartet no. 3
A Modern Songbook, Volume 1	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble		00:00:00	A Modern Songbook, Volume 1
A Modern Songbook, Volume 2	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble		00:00:00	A Modern Songbook, Volume 2
The Acrobats - Five Songs for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, and Piano	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2018	18:00:00	The Acrobats - Five Songs for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, and Piano
Wingspan for String Sextet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2017	20:50:00	Wingspan for String Sextet   Wingspan for String Sextet   Wingspan for String Sextet   Wingspan for String Sextet   Wingspan for String Sextet   Wingspan for String Sextet   Wingspan for String Sextet
Three Lyric Pieces	Keyboard	2016	12:00:00	Three Lyric Pieces
The Distances: Piano Quartet no. 2	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2016	17:30:00	The Distances: Piano Quartet no. 2   The Distances: Piano Quartet no. 2   The Distances: Piano Quartet no. 2   The Distances: Piano Quartet no. 2
Mosaics: String Quartet no. 7	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2015	19:00:00	Mosaics: String Quartet no. 7   Mosaics: String Quartet no. 7   Mosaics: String Quartet no. 7   Mosaics: String Quartet no. 7   Mosaics: String Quartet no. 7
Part Songs	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2015	13:00:00	Part Songs
Cloud Shadows for Violin and Piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2014	10:00:00	Cloud Shadows for Violin and Piano   Cloud Shadows for Violin and Piano
Evocations for Piano	Keyboard	2013	25:00:00	Evocations for Piano   Evocations for Piano
Songs and Silences to Poems by Wallace Stevens	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2012	18:00:00	Songs and Silences to Poems by Wallace Stevens   Songs and Silences to Poems by Wallace Stevens
A Short History (of the 20th Century)	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2011	17:30:00	A Short History (of the 20th Century)   A Short History (of the 20th Century)
Pulsation: Piano Quartet no. 1	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2011	16:00:00	Pulsation: Piano Quartet no. 1   Pulsation: Piano Quartet no. 1   Pulsation: Piano Quartet no. 1   Pulsation: Piano Quartet no. 1
Dark Matter, Late Light: String Quartet no. 6	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2011	15:00:00	Dark Matter, Late Light: String Quartet no. 6   Dark Matter, Late Light: String Quartet no. 6   Dark Matter, Late Light: String Quartet no. 6   Dark Matter, Late Light: String Quartet no. 6   Dark Matter, Late Light: String Quartet no. 6
Trefoil for String Trio	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2011	14:00:00	Trefoil for String Trio   Trefoil for String Trio   Trefoil for String Trio   Trefoil for String Trio
Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2010	16:00:00	Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano   Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano   Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano   Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano
The Wild Swans for Piano	Keyboard	2009	11:00:00	The Wild Swans for Piano
That Lonesome Whistle for High Voice and Piano	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2009	11:00:00	That Lonesome Whistle for High Voice and Piano
Questions of Travel for Cello and Piano	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2009	12:00:00	Questions of Travel for Cello and Piano   Questions of Travel for Cello and Piano
The Night Sky: String Quartet no. 4	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2009	17:00:00	The Night Sky: String Quartet no. 4   The Night Sky: String Quartet no. 4   The Night Sky: String Quartet no. 4   The Night Sky: String Quartet no. 4   The Night Sky: String Quartet no. 4
Song Acts, Book One: Angels of Wind and Fire for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, and Piano	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2008	18:00:00	Song Acts, Book One: Angels of Wind and Fire for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, and Piano
Song Acts, Book Two: Erat Hora, for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, and Piano	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2008	21:00:00	Song Acts, Book Two: Erat Hora, for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone, and Piano
Whirligig and After: String Quartet no. 2	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	16:30:00	Whirligig and After: String Quartet no. 2   Whirligig and After: String Quartet no. 2   Whirligig and After: String Quartet no. 2   Whirligig and After: String Quartet no. 2   Whirligig and After: String Quartet no. 2
Colors of Memory for Piano	Keyboard	2008	19:00:00	Colors of Memory for Piano
Six Songs and an Epilogue to The Wings of the Dove	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2007	00:00:00	Six Songs and an Epilogue to The Wings of the Dove
Ecstasis: Prelude and Variations for Piano	Keyboard	2007	19:00:00	Ecstasis: Prelude and Variations for Piano
Bearing the Light for Voice and Cello	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2007	21:00:00	Bearing the Light for Voice and Cello
Revenants: 32 Variations for Piano in or around C Minor	Keyboard	1992	15:00:00	Revenants: 32 Variations for Piano in or around C Minor
A Ring of Light for High Voice and Piano	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1986	00:00:00	A Ring of Light for High Voice and Piano
'The Stillness in the Air': Six Poems of Emily Dickinson	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1985	17:00:00	'The Stillness in the Air': Six Poems of Emily Dickinson
That music always round me: Three poems by Walt Whitman	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1984	00:17:00	That music always round me: Three poems by Walt Whitman

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 programs 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, The Arc Project, The Composer's Voice, and The New York Contemporary Music Symposium.  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 (with optional vocalist, 22 minutes)

Gandy Dancing (with optional 2 percussion) (9 minutes)

Illuminations: Three Lyric Pieces (18 minutes)

No Other End of the World (11 minutes)

Now and Then (with optional 1 or 2 percussion, 10 minutes)

One by One: Ten Concert Etudes (26 minutes)

Revenants: 32 Variations in or around C Minor (15 minutes)

Sonata from Crossing the Water (16 minutes)

The Glittering Scales (9.5 minutes)

The Wild Swans (11.5 minutes)

Three Impromptus (12 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 (21 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)

No. 9: Refrains (19 minutes)

No. 10: The Same River (16 minutes)

No. 11: Murmuration (23 minutes)

No. 12: Arrivals (16 minutes)

 

Solos and Duos--Strings

Arabesque for Violin and Piano (5 minutes)

Cloud Shadows for Violin and Piano (10 minutes)

Fantasy for Unaccompanied Violin (6.75 minutes)

Give and Take for Violin and Cello (12 minutes)

Night Thoughts for Violin and Piano (6.5 minutes)

Outcry and Elegy for Unaccompanied Violin (15 minutes)

Questions of Travel for Cello and Piano (12.5 minutes)

Rhapsody for Solo Violin (14 minutes)

Ricercar for Unaccompanied Cello (10.5 minutes)

Ripple and Gleam for Violin and Piano (6 minutes)

Shadow Child Fantasy for Two Violins (5 minutes)

Shadow Child for Unaccompanied Cello (8.5 minutes)

Shadow Child for Violin and Cello (11 minutes)

Soliloquies and Interludes for Unaccompanied Cello (18 minutes)

Sonata for Violin and Piano (15 minutes)

Sound in Space for Violin and Piano (9.25 minutes)

The Hourglass for Violin or Cello and Harp (9 minutes)

The Onset for Violin and Cello (9.75 minutes)

Three Nocturnes for Viola and Piano (15 minutes)

Three Pieces for Unaccompanied Cello (17 minutes)

 

Solos and Duos--Winds

A Rising Arc for Piccolo, Flute, and Alto Flute (10 minutes)

Impressions for Flute and Piano

            Aquatint (4 minutes)

            Arabesque (5 minutes)

            Vignette (4.5 minutes)

Little Fantasy for Unaccompanied Flute (6 minutes)

Ripple and Gleam for Flute and Piano (6 minutes)

Sand Dunes for Solo Flute (10.5 minutes)

Sound in Space for Oboe and Piano (9.25 minutes)

Sound in Space for Trumpet and Piano (9.25 minutes)

Star and Shadow for Trumpet and Piano (6 minutes)

The Light Fantastic for Clarinet and Piano (14) minutes

The Source for Unaccompanied Flute (4 minutes)

 

Piano Trios

No. 1: A Spiral Stair (14 minutes)

No. 2: Nightfall (20 minutes)

No. 3: In the Balance (18 minutes)

 

Piano Quartets

Pulsation (16 minutes)

The Distances (17.5 minutes)

 

Chamber Music

Concordances for Brass Quintet (12 minutes)

A Compass Rose for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (14 minutes)

A Transformation for Brass Quintet (11.5 minutes)

Almost a Shadow for Violin, Horn, and Piano (6.5 minutes)

Cat’s Cradle for Clarinet, Marimba, Viola, and Cello (10 minutes)

Exit Music for Soloist and Piano (16 minutes)

Fullness of Time: String Trio no. 2 (18 minutes)

Horizons for Clarinet, Horn or Cello, and Piano (7.5 minutes)

Living On: Soundscapes of Ecology for Flute, Clarinet, and Cello (13 minutes)

Nightfall for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (9 minutes)

Pulsation for Piano and String Quartet (16 minutes)

Octet for Strings (15 minutes)

Orbits for Pierrot Ensemble and Percussion (12 mnutes)

Quartet-Fantasy for Flute, Cello, Piano, and Percussion (10.5 minutes)

Quartet for Flute and String Trio (12 minutes)

Quintet for Winds (12.5 minutes)

Septet: L'histoire sans soldat (L'histoire ensemble, 9 minutes)

The Rings of Saturn for Brass Quintet (10.5 minutes)

The Still Point for Flute, Cello, Piano, and Optional Bells (11.5 minutes)

The Still Point for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (11.5 minutes)

The Sunflower for Clarinet and String Quartet (10 minutes)

The Sunflower for Flute, Oboe, and String Trio (10.5 minutes)

Trefoil: String Trio no. 1 (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)

Apparitions (texts by Guillaume Apollinaire and Stephane Mallarme)

            Soprano, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (18 minutes)

Easter, 1916: Prelude to The Dreaming of the Bones (text by W. B. Yeats)

            Mezzo Soprano or Baritone, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (11.25 minutes)

Ecospheres (text by Elisabeth Frost)

            Baritone, Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, and Cello (20 minutes)

Words on the Wind

            High Voice, 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 medium voice 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: Three Songs from Drum-Taps for tenor and piano

            (Texts by Walt Whitman) (13 minutes)

Petal and Flame for mezzo soprano, clarinet, and piano

            (6 songs, texts by Ezra Pound) (17 minutes)

Scenes from The Ghetto

            (3 songs, texts by Lola Ridge) (14 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 mezzo soprano, baritone, and piano

            (6 songs, texts by Ezra Pound) (18 minutes)

Song Acts, Book II: Erat Hora [There Was An Hour] for mezzo 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 or mezzo soprano and piano

            (8 songs, texts by Wallace Stevens) (18 minutes)

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 Acrobats for mezzo soprano, baritone, and piano

(5 songs, various texts) (18 minutes)

“The Black Riders” for Baritone and Fixed Media

(9 songs, texts by Stephen Crane) (12 minutes)

“The Stillness in the Air”: Six Poems of Emily Dickinson for mezzo soprano and piano

            (16 minutes)

“The Windswept” for high voice and piano

            (6 songs, various texts) (20 minutes)

“Wildness and Wet” for high voice and piano

(4 songs, texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins) (19 minutes)

 

Stand Alone Songs

A Modern Songbook, Volumes I - VI:

Songs for baritone (16), medium voice (24), and high voice (20).

Convergence for Voice and Piano (text by Thomas Hardy) (11 minutes)

 

Choral

Another Winter's Journey (SATB, text by Edward Thomas) (10 minutes)

Emblems of Conduct (SATB, composite text by Hart Crane and Charles Baudelaire) (5 minutes)

Four Late Lyrics (SATB, texts by Walt Whitman) (15 minutes)

Five Romantic Lyrics (SATB and optional oboe/English horn, texts by Byron et al) (15 minutes)

Five Poems of William Carlos Williams (SATB) (17 minutes)

Four Medieval Lyrics (SATB, anonymous texts) (10 minutes)

Fragment(s) (SATB, text by John Keats) (8.5 minutes)

Incantation (SSAATTBB, textless) (15 minutes)

October-November (SATB, composite text by Hart Crane and Emily Dickinson) (5.5 minutes)

On the Beach at Night Alone (SSAATTBB, text by Walt Whitman) (7 minutes)

Part Songs (SATB, quartet or chorus, fragmentary texts) (13 minutes)

Premonition (SATB, text by Rainer Maria Rilke) (6 minutes)

Sea Drift (SATB, texts by Walt Whitman) (17 minutes)

Valley (SSAATTBB, original text) (7.5 minutes)

 

Orchestral

Chorale for Strings (7 minutes)

Concordances for String Orchestra (12 minutes)

Echolocation for Small Orchestra (10 minutes)

Hullaballoo for Orchestra (7 minutes)

Postcard from the Volcano for Orchestra (10 minutes)

The Skaters for Orchestra (10 minutes)

Turning for String Orchestra (Intermediate) (8.5 minutes)

Turning for String Orchestra (Professional) (8.5 minutes)

Wind and Wave for Orchestra (8.5 minutes)

What the Thunder Said for Two Trumpets, Timpani, and Strings (10 minutes)

 

Chamber Opera

The Outside (10 instrumental parts, 4 voices, 45 minutes)

The Outside (4 instrumental parts, 4 voices, 45 minutes)

The Dreaming of the Bones (4 instrumental parts, 5 voices, 76 minutes)