Joel Philip Friedman--composer/currator/colaborator

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Fallings (work-in-progress)
ca. 30 minutes
A chamber music theater work for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and pre-recorded sound
See Stage Works

Sweet Stillness
(work-in-progress) ca. 13 minutes
Setting of selected texts for 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), and string quintet (2vln, va, vc, cb) (or string orchestra).

Texts (compiled by the composer): Sweet Stillness (Barthold Heinrich Brockes, trans. Dr. K.M. Knittel, UT Austin); Sim Shalom (trans, Rabbi Rachael Gartner); Requiem Aeternum; Requiem Mass; Richard II (Excerpts, William Shakespeare).

Lullaby
(2001) 3 minutes
For voice and piano (co-composed with Jennifer Bilfield)

Text: Joel Phillip Friedman and Jennifer Bilfield

First Performance: April 7, 2001, Kozlowski Hall, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (Joel Phillip Friedman, voice and piano).

One into One
(1995) Complete Song Cycle 20 minutes
A Song Cycle for soprano and piano

1. In the Solitude of Sounds 2. What the Living Do 3. One into One Texts: Bela-Lisa Friedman, Marie Howe, Seth Friedman.

First Performance: April 9, 1995, Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre, New York City (Susan Narucki, soprano; Allison Voth, piano). NB: May be performed as a complete cycle or as individual songs

In the Solitude of Sounds
(1995) 8:30 minutes
Song for soprano and piano (from One into One)

Text: Bela-Lisa Friedman

What the Living Do
(1995, revised 1999) 6:40 minutes
Song for soprano and piano (from One into One)

Text: Marie Howe

First Performance (revised version): March 26, 2000, Tisch Center for the Arts, 92nd St. Y, NYC, Susan Narucki, soprano; Alan Feinberg, piano. Recording: Extraordinary Vistas: The MacDowell Colony Project (Americus, AMR20011020)

One into One
(1995) 5 minutes
Song for soprano and piano (from One into One)
Text: Seth Friedman

Five Songs of Edward Macdowell
(1988-89) 12 minutes
A set of MacDowell songs arranged for mixed chorus (some a capella, some with piano accompaniment)
See Music for Young Performers/Young Audiences
NB: May be performed as a complete cycle or as individual songs

RECORDINGS

Americus

Crystal Records

Jay/Ter