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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
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
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	Keyboard	2013	25:00:00	Evocations   Evocations
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
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 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)