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1 stanley grill Transormations or viola da gamba Coyright 2011 Stanley Grill All rights reserved

2 MUSIC BY STAN GRILL VOCAL MUSIC The Snow Begins (WC Williams) 1975 sorano, iano min Earth and Sea (Eskimo texts) 1975 sorano, iano min reludes (TS Eliot) 1978 sorano, violin, cello 10 min 6 Songs (WB Yeats) 198 sorano, iano 15 min To a Child (WB Yeats) 1987 sorano, string quartet 20 min Crazy ane Sings (WB Yeats) 1999 sorano, l, vn, va, vc, n 25 min Vignettes/lowers (WC Williams) 2002 SATB, cello 18 min Love oems (WC Williams) 200 SSAA 10 min Vignettes/Trees (WC Williams) voices, 2 cellos 15 min Thinking o You (ohn MacKenzie) 2005 sorano, vc, har 7 min Ariettas without words 2005 sorano, vc, har 9 min Scetate (erdinando Russo) 2005 SSATTBB 6 min In Their light (Mark Doty) 2006 sorano, mezzo sorano, vn, vc 6 min Rilke Songs 2009 sorano, va d'amore, vc 15 min 4 Songs to oems by Hart Crane 2010 tenor, iano 12 min Sonnets to Orheus (Rilke) 2012 tenor, iano 5 min MUSIC OR STRINGS ALONE 6 Contrauntal ieces 1986 string quartet 20 min or Laura 1987 string quartet 25 min As Easy as 1,2, 1987 string trio 10 min The Beckoning Stars 2001 string quartet 1 min Imaginary Dances 2001 violin solo 18 min Short Stories 200 vn, va, vc, db 18 min assion (a love duet) 200 va, vc 9 min avanne (or a world without war) 2005 string orchestra 8 min Meditations or String Orchestra 2006 string orchestra 8 min American Landscaes 2007 string quartet 24 min Motet or String Orchestra 2008 string orchestra 7 min Ecstasy 2009 viola solo 9 min Transormations 2009 viola da gamba solo 12 min Sonatine 2010 violins 9 min CHAMBER MUSIC Three or Three 1992 vn, vc, n 16 min Civil War Songs 1992 va, n 18 min Take ive vns, va, vc, n 25 min Serenade 1999 l, vn, va, vc 11 min Distant Music 2000 cl, vn/va, vc, n 20 min Driven by the Wind 2001 l, vc, n 25 min Nonet (or New York) 2002 l, ob, cl, hn, bn, 2vns, va, vc 5 min A Little Sweet 200 l, vc 10 min On the edge o slee & dreaming 200 hn, vc, har 1 min 5 astoral Scenes 2004 ob, bn, vn, va, vc 0 min I was dreaming o the sea 2004 vn (or l), vc, n 7 min Little Tales o Mirth & Woe 2004 vn (or l), vc, n 6 min An Ode to the ossibility o eace 2005 cl, vn, vc 15 min Elements 2006 l, ob, cl, hn, bn 11 min Motet or Brass Instruments tr, hn, trb, tu 7 min ORCHESTRAL MUSIC Aalachian Songs 1988 chamber orchestra 25 min Morning Music 2001 cl, string orchestra 22 min Two Sad Songs (WB Yeats) 2002 sorano, string orchestra 15 min Invisible Ballet 200 strings & diverse instruments min luto 2005 orchestra 15 min Ohelia Songs (Shakeseare) 2005 sorano, har, string orchestra 12 min Love's Little leasures 2008 sorano, string orchestra 15 min The our Elements 2009 va, string orchestra 22 min Mystical Songs 2009 sorano, va, string orchestra 18 min

3 Transormations Early music has always held a secial aeal or me, and at one oint, I decided to write new music or early instruments The viola da gamba is certainly one instrument that should never have allen rom general use it has a unique and wonderul sound Transormations was comosed with the transormation woodcuts o MC Escher in mind In this case the music transorms gradually rom one thing into another Stan Grill

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19 A ew words about (and by) the comoser Stan Grill was raised in the Bronx, studied at the Bronx House School o Music, and later graduated rom the Manhattan School o Music with undergrad and graduate degrees in music theory He studied iano with Robert Hels and Leon Kushner and comosition with Ursula Mamlok and oseh rostako Maor works include music or string orchestra and voice, string orchestra and clarinet, a nonet or winds and strings, and several song cycles or mixed voices and chamber ensemble erormances have been roduced by the comoser, as well as resented by the Comosers Guild o New ersey, the St aul s Church estival o the Arts, the Leonia Chamber layers, the New York Comosers Circle, the Northern New ersey Camerata, the Bronx Arts Ensemble and the Duo + Ensemble During the seasons, he was comoser in residence o One World Symhony, a New York City based orchestra One World Symhony has remiered several maor works, including Invisible Ballet or orchestra, Two Sad Songs setting oems by WB Yeats or sorano & string orchestra, and a cycle o songs or two cellos and two mezzo soranos setting oems by the New ersey oet William Carlos Williams In 2006, One World commissioned three works a setting o the Ohelia songs rom Shakeseare s Hamlet or sorano, har and string orchestra, an orchestral work, "luto," or a rogram eaturing Holst s The lanets, and a setting o oetry or a concert honoring those who lost their lives on 9/11 Recent works include "The our Elements" or viola and string orchestra commissioned by violist Brett Deubner and "Mystical Songs" or sorano, viola and string orchestra commissioned by the Universidad Tecnica articular de Loa In 2009, an entire rogram o music by Stan Grill was erormed in Tokyo by the Duo + Ensemble He currently works in hiladelia, and lives haily in New ersey with his wie, cats and iano As I see it, as much as we strive to ind reason and urose in our having been born into this amazing, mysterious and awe-insiring universe, that attemt is largely utile It is however, the best art o our nature that obliges us to make the attemt, though the most we can hoe or is to gain some small degree o understanding o the world around us, and, more imortantly, o ourselves To achieve this, we each aroach the roblem in our own way, uniquely shaed by our cultural background, innate talents and abilities, education and so on or some, science may be the window through which they best erceive and interret the world, or others, religion or those to whom the world seems to exress itsel most clearly and beautiully through sound, music is the voice that seaks to us and through which we, in turn, best exress ourselves Now, I can write notes that will make retty music because I ve been trained to do so but the best o my music has arrived, rather inexlicably, as art o a ersonal eort to understand the world and mysel It is, in a way, an act o translation The world says something, I try to understand it, and then translate it into musical language The articular musical language which I seak, is, o course, a roduct o my conservatory training and ersonal musical tastes, but hoeully, the outcome, imerect a translation as it may be, will convey to others something o its original intent Stan's music is melodic, modal, contrauntal, characterized by extended, interweaving lines His musical inluences san the centuries, and include Machaut, osquin, alestrina, Monteverdi, Lassus, Britten, Ives, Vaughn Williams and Shostakovich Two main themes ermeate many o the ieces - music intended to inluence the minds and hearts o those who hear it in such a way as to encourage thoughts about the ossibility o world eace - and music comosed in an attemt to translate something about the nature o the hysical world Comlete scores are available in the American Music Center's on-line library lease go to Stan's web age at American Music Center

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