James Robert Brašić

April 9, 2003

Baltimore Composers Forum

 

Works

 

           

A klezmer love song (a ballet) for clarinet in A and Bb and three percussionists 2002

 

Four Songs for soprano, Bb clarinet, and piano 1980, a thesis presented to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts

 

Cadmus (James Robert Brašić)

A white blossom (D. H. Lawrence Love poems and others 1913)

Chansons innocentes: I (E. E. Cummings Tulips and chimneys 1923)

Pied beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems 1918)

 

Performed May 3, 1977, at the Forum for Composers at the Saint Louis Community College at Forest Park, Saint Louis, Missouri, by Carolyn Gaspar, soprano, Robert Coleman, clarinet, and Mary Mottl, piano, Partially funded by the Missouri State Council of the Arts and the Music Perfomance Trust Fund.

 

Performed April 24, 1980, in a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Master of Arts in Composition, by Jan Parker, soprano; Gary Scott, clarinet; and Margaret Peterson, piano; in Graham Chapel, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri

 

 

Termination for flute and drums 1976

 

Performed April 24, 1980, in a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Master of Arts in Composition, by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, in Graham Chapel, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri

 

Performed with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Flute and Drum choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, and danced by Catherine MacNeil and Geoff Nimmer, on April 7 and 8, 1984, in an Evening of Dances, a Choreographic Showcase of Danceworks, at the David Howard School of Ballet, Third Floor, 36 West 62nd Street, New York, New York 10023

 

Performed on videotape with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Flute and Drum choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, and danced by Catherine MacNeil and Geoff Nimmer, in 1984, in a studio in New York, New York

 

Performed with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Eastern Images “Flute and Drum” choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, with costumes by Erich Hochman and Frank C. Martin, II, and danced by Melinda Jackson and Frank C. Martin, II, on May 28, and May 29, 1986, at an open rehearsal of the American Contemporary Dance Company/Company of American Dance, at the Harkness Ballet Foundation, 4 East 75th Street, New York, New York, supported by a grant from the Harkness Ballet Foundation

 

Performed with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Eastern Images “Flute and Drum” choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, with costumes by Erich Hochman and Frank C. Martin, II, and danced by Melinda Jackson and Frank C. Martin, II, on June 4, and June 5, 1986, in an Evening of Dances in the Spring Season 1986 of the American Contemporary Dance Company/Company of American Dance, at the Harkness Ballet Foundation, 4 East 75th Street, New York, New York, supported by a grant from the Harkness Ballet Foundation

 

Performed and videotaped for Opus 17 (“Composition for Flute and Drum”) choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, with dance costumes by Shirley Fields, performed by Lisa Arkis, flute, Michael Osrowitz, percussion, and danced by Kimberliegh Jordan and Al Itoka, at the Movement – Music – Voice Program of the American Contemporary Dance Company, Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, New York, New York, on November 15, 1988

 

Performed for Opus 17 (“Composition for Flute and Drum”). Choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, with dance costumes by Shirley Fields, performed by Lisa Arkis, flute, Jim Baker, percussion, and danced by Kimberliegh Jordan and Frank Martin, at Dance Conversations, American Contemporary Dance Company, Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, New York, New York, October 24, 1989

 

Performed and videotaped with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Metamorphosis choreographed by Belinda Sue James, with costumes by Belinda James, assisted by Carol Etkin and Ed Sandford, and danced by James DeVille and Belinda James, at Raven Renault and Colleagues at the Mid Day Concert Series, Mark Goodson Theatre, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, New York, December 17, 1990.

 

Performed and videotaped with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Metamorphosis choreographed by Belinda Sue James, danced by Benjamin Bowman, Jonathan Phelps, and Gregory Wolverton, at A First Peoples Thanksgiving, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York, New York, November 18, 2000.

 

Performed with an audiotape by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion, for Metamorphosis choreographed by Belinda Sue James, danced by Jonathan Phelps and Gregory Wolverton, Lighting by David Hein, at Color Pointes, The Souls of Our Feet: People of Color Dance Festival 2001, Triangle Theater, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, June 23 and 24, 2001. Recorded on June 24, 2001, on videotape with camera by Richard Michaels and editing by Neculai Burghelea

 

Presented on January 24, 2003, at Winter Words, a concert of music and the spoken word, by the Baltimore Composers Forum, at the Creative Alliance, 413 South Conkling Street, Baltimore, Maryland, on a videotape of Flute and Drum choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, danced by Catherine MacNeil and Geoff Nimmer, in a studio in New York, New York, in 1984, to an audiotape recorded in 1980, by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Mark Lewis Tate, percussion.

 

Presented on January 24, 2003, at Winter Words, a concert of music and the spoken word, by the Baltimore Composers Forum, at the Creative Alliance, 413 South Conkling Street, Baltimore, Maryland, on a videotape of Opus 17 (“Composition for Flute and Drum”) choreographed by Frank C. Martin, II, with dance costumes by Shirley Fields, performed by Lisa Arkis, flute, Michael Osrowitz, percussion, Kimberliegh Jordan, dancer, and Al Itoka, dancer, at the Movement – Music – Voice Program of the American Contemporary Dance Company, Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, New York, New York, on November 15, 1988.

 

 

Nocturne for flute and piano 1975

 

Performed April 24, 1980, in a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Master of Arts in Composition, by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Margaret Peterson, piano, in Graham Chapel, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri

 

Orientale I, II, III, and IV (E. E. Cummings Tulips and chimneys 1923) for mixed chorus (SATB) and percussion 1980

           

String quartet 1980

 

th for flute and piano 1980

 

Performed April 24, 1980, in a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Master of Arts in Composition, by Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Margaret Peterson, piano, in Graham Chapel, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri

 

Triad (Adelaide Crapsey) for bass voice, flute, and piano 1974

 

Performed April 24, 1980, in a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Master of Arts in Composition, by Nicholas Solomon, bass, Jennifer Jo Schroeder, flute, and Margaret Peterson, piano, in Graham Chapel, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri