OPERAS
Fox Fables (Libretto: Rhoda Levine and Peter Winkler)
The Fox and the Grapes (2009)(14 min.)
Premiere: John Duffy Composers Institute, Norfolk, Va. May 31 2009
The Fox and the Hen (2008)(9½ min)
Premiere: John Duffy Composers Institute, Norfolk, Va. May 31 2009
The Lion and the Fox (2010)
Premiere: John Duffy Composers Institute, Norfolk, Va. June 6 2010
PRINCIPAL MUSICAL THEATER WORKS
Out! (text: Winston Clark)
(Male Chorus, TTBB, including soloists; Piano, Percussion) (2 Acts, 23 numbers. 1 hour 30 min.) commissioned by the Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus.
Premiere: 1-Act version: Shubert Theater, New Haven, Conn., March 30, 1996. 2-Act version: Shubert Theater, New Haven, March 22, 1997. Numerous subsequent performances, including Tampa, Fla., Provincetown, Mass.; Stony Brook University, N.Y.
Original Cast recording on Nutmeg Records NRCD 2001 (1999)
Tingle-Tangle: A Wedekind Cabaret (Frank Wedekind, trans. Eric Bentley. Songs by William Bolcom, Arnold Black, and Peter Winkler.) 10 songs. Produced at The Ballroom, New York City, July 1994. Director: Isaiah Sheffer
Wonderland (book and lyrics by Ernst Muller, after Lewis Carroll)
An adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland”. 2 acts, 14 songs, incidental music.
Produced in Summer, 1987, by the Great Neck summer musical theater workshop. An earlier, one-act version, produced by Kids for Kids Productions, inc., toured Long Island area schools in 1986-87. Direcor: Francine Harmon.
Professionally Speaking (music co-written with Fred Block; lyrics by Ernst Muller and Fred Block) A satirical revue about doctors, lawyers, teachers, and their victims. 2 acts, 20 songs
New York Production (Equity Off-Broadway contract) St. Peter’s at Citicorp, May 22-June 8, 1986. Director: Tony Tanner
Regional productions:
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Off-Broadway Theater, Nov. 1988)
Portland, Ore. (Storefront Theater, Jan. 27 -Apr. 2, 1989)
Port Jefferson, N.Y. (Theater Three, Dec. 31, 1983-May 13, 1984 and 1989)
Redding, Conn. (Spinning Wheel Inn, 1985)
The song, “Tamara, Queen of the Nile” from this show has been recorded by Joan Morris and William Bolcom on Lime Jello: An American Cabaret (RCA AM4-5830), and by Jody Karin Applebaum and Marc-Andre Hamelin on Serious Fun! (Albany Records TROY 744, 2005)
Incidental music and songs for the following productions:
Figaro / Figaro (Eric Overmyer-Beaumarchais-Ödön von Horváth) Incidental music and one song. Stony Brook University Theater, April 8-18, 2010
Blood Wedding (Federico Garcia Lorca) 4 songs, incidental music (Realized at the Stony Brook Computer Music Studio) Stony Brook University Theater, November 1995.
The Tempest (William Shakespeare) 7 songs, incidental music. (Realized at the Stony Brook Computer Music Studio) Stony Brook University Theater, April, l992. Director: Tom Newmiller
The Good Woman of Szechuan (Berthold Brecht, trans. Eric Bentley) 8 songs. Hunter College Playhouse, October 30- November 7, 1991. Director: William Van Horn. Also produced by the Blackfriars Traveling Shakespeare Theater, Theatre Three, Port Jefferson, July 1992
Little Women (adapted from Louisa May Alcott). 3 acts; 2 original songs; incidental music and arrangements of 20 period songs for soloists, small chorus, and chamber ensemble. Stony Brook University Theater, December 1982
Agamemnon (Aeschylus): Electronic and musique concrete incidental music, realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Studios. Directed by Anthony Stimac, McCarter Theater, Princeton, N.J., Fall 1966