PAUL PHILLIPS
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
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KEYBOARD & CHAMBER MUSIC
Sweet Thunder for 12 Pianos. Commissioned and premiered by Sunset Piano. Premiere conducted by composer, 02/09/2024.
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Invocation (soprano, flute, piano). Text by Rumi. Premiere: “Arts in the Village” Concert Series, 10/23/2004
Nantucket Rag (piano solo). Premiere: by composer, 10/29/1996
ORCHESTRA
Brass Knuckles: Pugilistic Prelude in Rondo Form for Large Orchestra. Commissioned by the Rhode Island College Symphony Orchestra.
Premiere: 10/18/2016
Wave (large orchestra). Commissioned and premiered by the Pioneer Valley Symphony, 5/17/2014
Battle-Pieces (song cycle for baritone and orchestra on six poems by Melville), 2011
Premiere: Andrew Garland, baritone, with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, 10/16/2011
War Music Suite (soprano, baritone, orchestra), 2009. Premiere: Indianapolis Chamber Orch, 01/31/2009
Go Perfect Into Peace (chamber orchestra). Premiere: Braga Chamber Orchestra (Portugal), 03/29/2007
Black Notes and White (brass, percussion, organ). Premiere: Pioneer Valley Symphony, 10/27/2001
Brownian Motion (large orchestra). Premiere: Brown University Orchestra, 5/5/1995
BALLET
Celestial Harmonies (ballet for string orchestra). Premieres: Ocean State Chamber Orchestra, Ann Danis, conductor, 4/19/1997
Brown Dance Ensemble with the Brown University Orchestra, 10/31/1997
CHORUS
Three Burgess Lyrics (chorus, vln, pf). Premiere: Marsh Chapel Choir, Julian Wachner, conductor. Boston University, 10/30/1999
VOCAL
Battle-Pieces (song cycle for baritone and piano on six poems by Melville). © 2011. Published 18 July 2014 by Classical Vocal Reprints.
Premiere: Jonathan Shine, baritone, with JJ Penna, pianist. Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, 04/18/2015
“Fifty-Five” (soprano, piano). Premiere: Kathryne Jennings, soprano, with Dennis Buck, pianist. Cranston, RI, 12/05/2009
Miracle Songs (song cycle for soprano and piano). Premiere: Kathryne Jennings, soprano, with Paul Phillips, pianist. 1987
THEATRE
A/B (actor, string quartet, harmonica, piano, percussion). Text by the composer based on writings by Anthony Burgess.
Premiere: Aurea, Providence, 10/13/2007
War Music (singers, actors, string trio, harmonica, percussion). Text by Christopher Logue, adapted by Elena Araoz and Paul Phillips
Premiere: Aurea, Providence, 09/30/2005
OPERA
Weedpatch (opera). Libretto by Bill Harley. Commissioned and premiered by North Cambridge Family Opera, 5/17/2018
FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
Jack and the Beanstalk (text adapted by Bill Harley; singer-narrator with orchestra)
Commissioned and premiered by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Diane Wittry, conductor, with Bill Harley, 04/29/2012
Come On Out and Play (text by Bill Harley; singer-narrator with orchestra)
Commissioned and premiered by the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Jesse Levine, conductor, with Bill Harley, 11/16/1996
All compositions published and distributed by Barnard Street Music unless otherwise indicated.
ARRANGEMENTS
OPERA
Mavra by Igor Stravinsky. Chamber ensemble (sextet). Boosey & Hawkes, published 2010
ORCHESTRA
The Harlem Rag by Tom Turpin. Chamber orchestra, 1989
The Sweetheart Tree by Johnny Mercer. String orchestra, 1989
Someone to Watch Over Me by George Gershwin. String orchestra, 1989
CHAMBER MUSIC
La fille aux cheveux de lin by Claude Debussy. 11 wind instruments, 2020
Prelude and Fugue in B flat major from The Bad‐Tempered Electronic Keyboard by Anthony Burgess. String quartet, 2007
FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
You’re in Trouble by Bill Harley. Orchestral arrangement (with vocalist)
There’s a Pea on my Plate by Bill Harley. Orchestral arrangement (with vocalist)
Both commissioned and premiered by the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Jesse Levine, conductor, with Bill Harley, 11/16/1996