NEED NEVER BE FILLED
Jingya Liu Chinese Ensemble
I was commisioned to write this piece for a May 17th concert for the Howard County Chinese Cultural Center at Smith Auditorium. I also was hire to arrange multiple other pieces and to perform as a drummer and percussionist. I hopefully will be adding a video of this and other pieces from the concert.
Ensemble
Elegy For All Who Have Been Persecuted
Rome Chamber Ensemble
I wrote this allegorical Elegy as a mournful piece, a serious reflection to honor all populations who have been persecuted and to lament their deaths and loss in our futures. Since the premiere of this piece in Rome on Read more
I wrote this allegorical Elegy as a mournful piece, a serious reflection to honor all populations who have been persecuted and to lament their deaths and loss in our futures. Since the premiere of this piece in Rome on June 28th 2019, the Russo-Ukrainian War and the Hamas attack on Israel followed by the Israeli attacks and the occupation of Palestine have revealed numerous others to be lamented.
462*5=231*xy(2) First Movement
Marilyn Nonken & Kathy Supové - Composer Thomas L Beyer
4625 = 231xy(2) 462 Strings, 5 Movments, 231 strings, xy(2 Hands) Two Disklavier pianos 2 players 5 movements 65 keys with 3 strings per note 13 keys with 2 strings per note 10 keys with 1 string per note I desired to Read more
4625 = 231xy(2)
462 Strings, 5 Movments, 231 strings, xy(2 Hands) Two Disklavier pianos 2 players 5 movements
65 keys with 3 strings per note 13 keys with 2 strings per note 10 keys with 1 string per note I desired to write a piece to be performed by Marilyn Nonken ( the head of our Piano Studies and Kathy Supové another well known modern pianist/ friend. The piece is started by Marilyn and then Kathy joins as a sort of echo. Then the two Disklaviers join as the piece speeds up eventually to the point that the players cannot keep up so the Disklaviers finish the movement.
Way Of Wei
Pipa: Chen Cantata Fan / Composed by Thomas L Beyer
Morning Blossom
Guido Arboneli Bs. Clar. Composed by Thomas L Beyer
Not A Newer NB -- Vindauga #1-6
Anton Webern Ensemble
I was commissioned to write this piece for a world Premiere in Berlin for the Anton Webern Ensemble. The name Not A Newer NB is an anagram of Anton Webern. I used many ideas which I had about Webern to compose the pieces Read more
I was commissioned to write this piece for a world Premiere in Berlin for the Anton Webern Ensemble. The name Not A Newer NB is an anagram of Anton Webern. I used many ideas which I had about Webern to compose the pieces including short durations, simultaneous multiple time signatures, etc. The name Vindauga, recommended by a friend, comes from an old Norse word meaning 'window' literally 'Wind eye'
"Not a newer NB - 7 vindauga" by Thomas L. Beyer
Player 1 Violin, Viola Player 2 Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Player 3 Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bari saxes Player 4 Piano Player 5 Percussion
Marimba (4 mallet technique) 2 Crotales, 2 triangles, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone,, Suspended Cymbals, 2 Jawa Gongs, 2 China Gongs, 2 Tamtams, (all bowed with "Bass Bow") 3Wood Blocks, 5 Temple Blocks, 1 Bamboo tubes 1 Bass Drum, 3 tom-toms,
Vindauga 1 2 3 4 5 6 7(not done)
1'13" 1'11" 43" 52" 1'20" 1'27" 1'37" Length 23 59 13 9 20 75 85 200 115 40 75 160 105 BPM Per Quarter note med Fast Med Slow Med fast Med>Slow Speed 9/8 4/4 7/4 4/4 5/4 3/4
Vln Vla Vla Vla Vln Vln BsCl BsCl BsCl Cl Cl BsCl Sop Ten Bari Alto Sop Ten Pn Pn Pn inside Inside Pn Pn Perc Perc Perc Perc Bow Perc Perc Vibes InPn BsDr Mar Cym SnDr Perc OrBel Gong
Sop BsCl Vla Pn Cym SnDr All Improvises
Soft Loud Med Soft Med Med Loud>Soft Volume
6/4 4/4 7/4 4/4 5/4 3/4 mixed Time Signature
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0:00/1:13
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0:00/1:12
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0:00/0:48
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0:00/0:51
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0:00/1:21
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0:00/1:27
The Square Root of 0
NYU Composer Ensemble Composed by Thomas L Beyer
Electronics
Where Would I Be If I Weren't Someplace Else?
Composed & Performed by Thomas L Beyer
Premiere Santa Cecilia Rome Italy May 12, 2011
Sad But True
Thomas L Beyer
Created on my birthday Feb 10, 2003 in response to many sadnesses.
Out of Nowhere
Thomas L Beyer
Incheon Korea 2011 I decided to create my piece for the performance after I arrived in Incheon so that it would have some connection to the environment. After a 14 hour flight and 3 hours of checking out the performance Read more
Incheon Korea 2011 I decided to create my piece for the performance after I arrived in Incheon so that it would have some connection to the environment. After a 14 hour flight and 3 hours of checking out the performance and teaching spaces the team told me it was Joellen's birthday and we needed to go and celebrate. So after about 23 hours of being awake this was all done on Garage Band with Bass and Drums and multiple voice recordings.
Rheobatrachus Silus
Beate-G Schmitt-van Schaik. Composed by Thomas L Beyer
Premiere in Berlin Nov 10 2007 4 Flutes including a Sub Contra Bass Flute
Orchestral
Lettere D'Amore per Te
Constata Chamber Symphony Orchestra and Opera Choir/Olleg Danovski Dance Company
This is a Midi track just prior to the "The Constanta International Music Days in Constanta" at Cassa De Cultura Constanta Romania. The evening was given the title of "Aeneas – Thracian Stories". I will up date the video and post when I finish.
Dear John
Christine Ghezzo, Thomas L Beyer, Concerto Orchestra of Bucharest Composed by Thomas L Beyer
Dear John is dedicated to John Gilbert and John Cage who was a major personal influence not only in my writing and performing but in the way I listen to and observe sound in the world and how it is organized either by Read more
Dear John is dedicated to John Gilbert and John Cage who was a major personal influence not only in my writing and performing but in the way I listen to and observe sound in the world and how it is organized either by composers or more commonly simply by nature. The juxtapositions created in nature open our ears up to the possibilities of composing.
"Because Cage invariably took the intellectual leaps his radical ideas implied, he subsequently concluded that not only were any and all sounds music, but that the time-space frame of four minutes and thirty-three seconds was needlessly arbitrary, for unintentional music is indeed with us - available to ears that wish to perceive it - in all spaces and at all times." {Richard Kostelanetz - John Cage (ex)plain(ed)}
The Tempest
Bari Ensemble Composed by Thomas L Beyer
Premiere in Bari Italy June 14, 2016