Selected Audio/Video Samples
This excerpt of Coda for World Peace is taken from a recording session for McAllister/Ames Duo’s upcoming release “Encores 2 Project.”
Timothy McAllister, soprano saxophone
Liz Ames, piano
Meditation and Dance (2024)
World Premiere performance of Meditation and Dance at Space Do, Tokyo on January 13, 2025.
Marie Kikuchi, sopranino saxophone
Michiyo Haneishi, piano
January 24, 2023 (2023)
Lament for the Victims of the 39 Mass Shootings in the United States of America So Far This Year for Violin and Electric Guitar.
I do not know (2021)
I do not know for tenor voice and fixed media was completed on 24 January 2021 in Potsdam, NY.
- Donald George, Tenor
- Words by Garth Bardsley
- Music by Gregory Wanamaker
- Video by Meggie George
Taking Turns (2017)
Taking Turns performed by Jacob Swanson, soprano saxophone, and Kenneth Meyer, guitar, at the Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
Elegy (2002/2015)
Akropolis Reed Quintet’s beautifully moving Web Premiere of Elegy, scored for reed quintet.
of Light and Shadows: I. Luminant Shadows (2015)
of Light and Shadows is my second sonata for alto saxophone and piano. This recording of the first movement, Luminant Shadows, is from Stephen Page’s and Liz Ames’ beautiful session at Bates Recital Hall, Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.
…unsettled, unphased… (2014)
Composed for saxophonist Robert Young, this recording of …unsettled, unphased… also features pianist M. Maxwell Howard, bassist John Geggie, and and percussionist Tim Sullivan.
Still Life: Loïe Dances (2018)
This performance is the U.S. Premiere of Still Life: Loïe Dances by the University of Michigan Saxophone Ensemble in Stamps Auditorium on November 14, 2018 at The University of Michigan.
Laude! (2016)
Laude! was premiered by The Crane Chorus and Orchestra, Jeffrey Francom, conductor and Shannon Stoddard, soprano, on December 4, 2016 at Helen M. Hosmer Hall, The Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY.
- Gloria’n cielo (0:00)
- Sovrana sì ne sembianti (9:05)
- Stella Nuova (18:00)
speed metal organum blues (2004)
Commissioned by PRISM Quartet in 2004, this is Sinta Quartet’s performance of speed metal organum blues from the Concert Artists’ Guild 2013 Winner’s Recital.
The Tragedy of Silence (2024)
Thompson – Kasler Duo performs The Tragedy of Silence at First Presbyterian Maumee, Maumee, Ohio on April 18, 2024.
Bobbi Thompson, alto saxophone and pedals
Ariel Kasler, electric guitar and pedals
Elegy (for the Forgotten) (2022)
April 2020: Drone footage surfaced showing bodies being buried on Hart Island in a mass grave – part of a potter’s field for the poor and unclaimed to be used for victims of the Covid-19 virus. Hart Island has served New York City through several epidemics when the scale of death is unprecedented to its current generation.
We often forget about those who are alone.
"Mosh" from Delusional Dances (2019)
Mosh, the third movement of Delusional Dances. From the world premiere performance by The Crane Wind Ensemble, Brian Doyle, conductor, on 21 November, 2022.
A Village Funeral in the time of COVID-19 (2020)
The digital premiere of A Village Funeral in the time of COVID-19 on September 20, 2020.
- Donald George, Tenor
- Words by Garth Bardsley
- Music by Gregory Wanamaker
- Video by Meggie George
Turning Tides (2019)
Turning Tides was commissioned by The RoseWind Duo . This performance took place on March 7, 2021 at The University of South Carolina.
- Clifford Leaman, saxophone
- Scott Herring, marimba
Night Set (2017)
Matthew Younglove’s and Liz Ames’ brilliant and beautiful recording of Night Set released on AMP Recordings on November 11, 2022.
Night Set
2:28
5:00
3:55
The Madding Crowd (2013)
(from A Story Within A Story)
- Video by Carrie Mae Weems
- Music and Sound Design by Gregory Wanamaker
The Madding Crowd superimposes spoken quotations and dialogue about civil rights from civil rights figures from (mostly) the early to mid 1960s over Carrie’s powerful montage of video images from the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s and 70s as a gentle ostinato and slowly developing contrapuntal lines gradually crescendo. Voices include James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisolm, William F. Buckley, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Fannie Lou Hamer, Marlon Brando, Harry Belefonte, and many others.
Dreamscape (2010)
Dreamscape reflects the illogical sequence of dreams – at least as we may remember them – after a sleep rich with a variety of imagery and emotion. This recording is of the premiere performance on February 23, 2011 in Helen Hosmer Hall, The Crane School of Music, Potsdam, NY by The Crane Wind Ensemble, Brian Doyle, conductor.
Three Episodes (2008)
Three Episodes was commissioned by the Creviston-Fader Duo. It was premiered on March 31, 2008 in the Renee Weiler Recital Hall, New York City.
