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Organum
Works for solo organ performed by
Walter Hilse
The Crayfish Olivia
Porphyria (fractal on the name of Haydn)A
Year for a Pomegranate (after Ramon Montoya)Hocket
II
Thai Elephant Orchestra
Invocation Gentle
Monsoon Monsoon
Tempest
The
Complete Victrola Sessions
featuring violinist Rebecca Cherry
and "The Violinist", a DVD film by Winsome Brown
Alegria en la cueva vieja Belvedere Brian's
Lament (aka Surf's Up)A Boy Has
Never Wept Nor Dashed A Thousand Kim The
Unfolding Opium Poppy Li Yuen Togetherness
Blues Mata Hari,
Balerina de Java Duo
for Violin & Meade Lux Lewis
The Kropotkins Paradise Square
Biloxi My
Body Lies on the Mountain Beulah
Land (Charlie Burnham)They
Are There (Charles Ives)
Lorette Velvette, Charlie Burnham,
Dog, Jonathan Kane, Samm Bennett, Al X. Greene, Doug Easley, BJ Cole
Yol K'u (Inside the Sun) Dave Soldier & Alan Kushan coaching
compositions by Mayan schoolchildren in San Mateo Ixtatan, Guatemala Oracion
de la Cruz El Bello
Quetzal Casamiento
de los Apaches Xan
Matin Mix Noble
Cazador Fiesta
de los Mayas
watch a
video of the kids performing
Da Hiphop Raskalz Music composed by 5-10 year old children in East Harlem
or Watertown Massacusetts, coached by Dave Soldier T
Rex Chelea & The Mighty Lions I
Want Candy Muffletoes Ghosty
Isabella (my niece!) Do
the Lollipop Sweetness 1,2,3,Go
911 Rock N Roll Coyotes What's My
Name? Boys & Girls Club Of The Night Chickenwing
Looneytunes I
Don't Want You No More Tuff Kids Feel
Tha Beat The School Rock Band Schooldogs
Rule The Halls Muffletoes Xtreme
Team Funkydelic Mix Woke Up Los
Nonameos Jumpin'
Abc Group Happy Go
Lucky Day Michelle (another niece!) Barney
Mac Hiphop Skyhigh Listen
to the Children on the Radio Franchize Children
Chamber Music (2 CD set) 2007East
St. Louis 1968 fpr viola Duo
Sonata for violin & cello Little
Andre for bass flute To
Spike Jones in Heaven for accordion Utah
Dances for saxophone 1.
Fluor, Phosphor, Lumen & Candle 2.
Dance for the Tetragrammaton Clever
Hans ballet for violin, cello, harpsichord Hockets
& Inventions for organ The
Unfolding Opium Poppy for
violin & piano
Richard Auldon Clark, viola Laura Seaton, violin William Schimmel, accordion Robert Dick, bass flute
Regina Carter, violin Michael
Swartz, alto saxophone Walter Hilse, organ
Thai Elephant Orchestra Elephonic Rhapsodies A
Child's Guide to the Elephant Orchestra Phong's
Solo improvisation by a 5 year-old elephant The Ganesha Symphony Symphony #1 in four
movements1
The Birth of Ganesha 2
Shiva Beheads Ganesha 3
A Head is Found 4
Ganesha Trimuphant Rhapsody
in Grey An
Elephant's Swan Song Three
Baht Opera Little
Elephant Saddle (Trad.) Elephants with Dave on violin Floating
Down the Pin River (Trad.) Elephants with a local mahout
hillbilly band Pin
Pia (Smithitham) Elephants with a traditional Thai instrument Bamboolin
(Muangling) Elephants with a bamboo violin An
Adult's Guide to the Elephant Orchestra Kaw-Liga
(Williams/Rose) Yes, they play Hank Williams with Thai hillbilly
players Pastorale
Lite (Beethoven, Arr. Soldier) Elephant orchestra with
marching band Homage
to Harry Partch Mr.
Elephant (Trad., Arr. Soldier) with Japanese saxophonist Chang!
Chang! Chang! (Trad., Arr. Soldier) Thai nursery rhyme, kids
and elephants Beethoven’sPastorale
Symphony, First movement (Beethoven, Arr. Soldier) Marching
band and elephant orchestra
Thai Elephant Orchestra Thung Kwian
Sunrise Temple
Music Rainforest Jojo Duo
for Renats Big Band Swing
Swing Swing Percussion
Trio Luuk
Kob's Diddley Bow Feature Harmonica
Music Heavy Logs Now
We're off to Paint Elephant
Field Recordings Somneuk
& Four Elephants Trio
for Theremin & Electric Keyboard Ken's Wind
Instrument
Ice-9 Ballads Kurt Vonnegut Annihilation
Life Dyot
Meet Mat Nice
Very Nice 119th
Calypso Duo
For Clarinet and Meade Lux Lewis 14th
Calypso Mona's
Funeral Music Big Tyrant Folly lyrics and narration by Kurt Vonnegut
the Kropotkins Five Points Crawl 2000
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Girls Seconds
Past Midnight (with Lorette)Sissy
Wa Wa (with Lorette) Crazy
Hannah (Mo Tucker) Junior's
Groove (Lorette Velvette)I Gotta
Man (Charlie Burnham)Starkweather (lyrics
Jim Tucker) Forever
Motel (lyrics Jim Tucker) Drivin'
To Spring Justice
Down South
Lorette Velvette, Charlie Burnham, Dave
Soldier, Dog, Jonathan Kane, Mo Tucker
Tangerine Awkestra Aliens Took My Mom 2000
Music composed by 2-9 year old
children in Fort Greene Brooklyn, coached by Dave Soldier
& Katie Down Aliens
invade from Jupiter Spaceships
on the Empire State Building Volcanoes
explode at the center of the earth The
aliens blow up Antartica Minuet
for recorder & violin Aliens
took my Mom The
navy bombs them Twelve
bar blues All
of the humans blow up The
aliens get nuclear bugs in them and pop The
aliens blow up Part II Everything
is soft
with Komar and Melamid The People's Choice Music 1997 The most wanted song The most
unwanted song composed according to poll results
Robert Dick & Soldier String
Quartet Jazz Standards on Mars 1997 arrangements by Soldier India (J
Coltrane) Gazzeloni (E
Dolphy) Water
Babies (W Shorter) Machine
Gun (J Hendrix)Something
sweet, something tender (E Dolphy)Sometimes,
perpetually (R Dick)Three
wishes (O Coleman)
Robert Dick, flute
The
Kropotkins Cold Wet Steel
(Soldier)Shake
'Em on Down Fred (McDowell)Everdream
(Soldier/Rory Young)On
This Earth (Soldier)Parchman
Farm (Bukka White)Something
Crawling Round My Bed (Velevette)Good
Cheap Transportation (Bennett)Coal
Black Wind (Soldier)Some
of the Dust (Bennett)The
Nasadiya (Soldier)Crow Jane
(Soldier, based on anonymous song)
Lorette
Velvette, Mark Feldman, Dave Soldier, Dog, Jonathan Kane, Samm Bennett
Soldier String Quartet She's Lightning When She Smiles 1994Another
Man Done Gone (Vera Hall)Future
Blues (Willie Brown)Clouds
in My Heart (Muddy Waters)Black
Snake Moan (Blind Lemon Jefferson)Prelude
(George Gershwin)Moanin'
at Midnight (Howlin' Wolf)Uncloudy
Day (Staples Singers)Moon and
Stars (Louise Johnson)Sugar
Momma (John Lee Hooker)Somebody
Help Poor Me (Robert Pete Williams)Cypress
Grove (Skip James)
vocals: Tiye' Giraud, Jason White, Bobby
Radcliffe, Napua Davoy
War Prayer
Ultraviolet Railroad1.
Betonia where I fell into a trance 2. Rapture 3.
I'm going upstairs, I'm going to take off all my clothes
Smut Dum Caupona Verterem Ad Puerum
Anglicum Odalisque
in the Seraglio Miser, Miser Graffiti
from a 9th century manuscript Quod libet Parisius Paridi Letter to Ausonius
Matarile with 30 school children from
Washinton Heights, New York City
Sojourner Truth Paris 1919
(John Cale, arr. Soldier)Lonesome
Train Sojourner
Truth Ezekiel
Saw the Wheel
1. Open Hydrant 2.
Walking on the 3rd Rail 3.
Ron Visits the Polymer Lounge 4.
For His Bad Self 5.
She Put My Head Under the Water
Laura Seaton, Dave Soldier,
Ron Lawrence, Michael Suchorsky (drums), Amina Claudine Myers and
Shelley Hirsch, vocals
Sequence Girls Five
Little Monsters Rondo
Amos Tutuola If I
had it to give (I'd give it to him) Prelude 20-20
Blues (Skip James)Moon
Goin' Down (Charlie Patton)Country
Blues #2 (Muddy Waters)
Laura Seaton, Dave Soldier,
violins; Ron Lawrence, viola; Mary Wooten, cello; Ratso Harris, bass;
Michael Suchorsky, drums
Kurt Vonnegut The Soldier's Story 30 min radio opera Phil Schaap as the radio MC lyrics and narration by Kurt Vonnegut
The
Apotheosis of John Brown a 30 min oratorio with text adapted from Frederick
Douglass
Romances From the
Second Line
Easy
Street Letter
to Skip James Die
Heiterkeiten Le
Belvedere Tillie's
Punctured Romance Christopher O'Riley, piano
Hockets &
Inventions Walter Hilse, organ
Inspect for Damaged Gods
Soldier String Quartet Bo
Diddley Bo Diddley, arranged Soldier, Preachin'
Blues Robert Johnson, arranged Soldier Ugly Robert Pete Williams, arranged Dave Soldier In Time Sly Stone, arranged Dave Soldier Michael
Callen Here Comes
the King Raymond Scott, arranged Soldier Boogie on
party people N'Orleans Marsh
Fugue unlisted outdoors cut on the CD
Regina
Carter, Dave Soldier, violins, Judith Insell viola, Dawn Avery, cello,
Tiye' Giraud & Jimmy Justice, vocals, Tiye, small percussion,
Jonathan Kane & Richard Bona, drums & bass
Miscellany or
not on CDs
Matarile
Marsh Fugue
songs perfromed by zebra finches
on tiny synthesizers Ciribini Brass Gamelan
song written by Da Hiphop Raksalz for
their concert at Great Performers at Lincoln CenterWe're
famous (just like Mary J Blige) Trio for
Brainwaves and Percussion Alpha
Wave Mix Reading
Stephen Colbert
TV
show (hour
long) from WHYY in Philly (March 2009) featuring a version of Trio for
Brainwaves and Percussion, a solo by Dave, and discussion
Humans play elephant music! The
Composer's Concordance Orchestra plays Thung Kwian Sunrise, improvised
by the Thai Elephant Orchestra. Wade Ripka transcribed, and I
orchestrated.
Thung Kwian
Sunrise (for human orchestra)
Variations on
a Waltz by Chopin from the Minute Waltz (Op 64, number 1,
1847/revised 2010)
Variation 1. All scale pitches are
played except those that Chopin wrote
or listen in the background here
Letter
to Ausonius performed by Sequitur
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Girls
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