The free-flowing melodic lines of the first movement are built around the notes of the Lydian mode. The meditative middle movement quotes from the Medieval Chant for the Dead, Dies Irae. The work closes with a mysterious Toccata movement that summarizes mystical tone and chiaroscuro textures that permeate the work.

Redemption Triptych Excerpt, Mvmt I

I. Myster Davydson’s Conceit
II. Busoni’s Black Bottom
III. Lied Ohne Worte (oder musik)
IV. La Valse Étirée
V. Freu’dich sehr, o meine Seele
VI. La Bourrée Dégoûtante
VII. Berceuse (Bulun Bat Eta Bulun Bi)
VIII. Las, Las, Las par Grand Délit
IX. Funeral Day in Olafsvík
X. Canons (Hore Černy)
XI. Monastery in the Sinai (Sicut Cervus)
XII. Mélodie (pour la main gauche)
XIII. Gavotte (long-winded, boring old tales of the young grandfather)
XIV. Paresseux -pédie No. 4
XV. Out of Thin Air  

These fifteen short parodies are inspired by everything from Giles Farnabie to Grieg to Mendelssohn to Busoni to Satie to Prokofiev to Ligeti, and are meant as pleasant diversions.

Papillons no. 2: BUSONI'S BLACK BOTTOM

Papillons no. 14: GAVOTTE

Of Heloise is a setting of poetry from Judith Infante's Love: A Suspect Form, Heloise and Abelard.

Of Heloise - by Jan Gilbert, excerpt

Openings is written for winds and percussion. There are four movements: mouth, mind, eye and ear. The piece began in 2004 as I walked up the Spruce Spring Trail near Red Canyon campground in the Manzano Wilderness for the first time. Openings is physically connected to the density of the trail as one climbs up a ridge of the mountain. When you've reached a certain height there are openings out into the mesa where you can see for miles and miles. Openings is artistically connected to Encounter, the installation piece I made in collaboration with visual artist Hee Sook Kim.

Excerpt - II. Mind U of New Mexico Wind Symphony

portrait of Isadora Duncan;

Art & Isadora excerpt (Composer: Michael Delliara) Cantori New York

work for trumpet and percussion

excerpt_by_edward_sandor.mp3

1. St. Charles in the Rain; 2. As October Leaves fall on Huntington and State; 3. Sugar's Nightmare (A Good and Evil Rag in Dead-Time); 4. Esperando en la Esquina de Chapala y de la Guerra; 5. Foggy Bottom

A suite of five piano pieces inspired by places I have visited in the United States, and the title is taken from the cartoons by Winsor McCay.

As October Leaves Fall on Huntington & State

Foggy Bottom

Etudes can be requested for purchase separately.

Etude in B minor, excerpt, performed by Maria Corley

Etude in G minor, excerpt, performed by Maria Corley