Dog
Complete Work Title:
Dog (after W.S. Merwin)
Performance Medium:
female voice, bassoon, and intermedia
Movements:
in six episodes
Duration:
c.10:30
Dedication:
for Heidi Dietrich Klein and Kristen Wolfe Jensen
Date Composed:
October 1996 - October 1997
Performance Information:
intermedia component includes 8-channel computer music, live FX processing, video projections, lighting, and staging.
Additional Information:
• Supported in part by a Faculty Research Grant from the University of North Texas.
• Recording available on CEMISonics: The Threshold of Sound (Centaur CRC-2407, released 1998).
Performance History:
Heidi Dietrich Klein, voice; Kathleen Reynolds, bassoon:
• 10 March 2000; University of North Texas (Denton, TX) — SEAMUS Y2K Conference
Deborah Norin-Kuehn, voice; Nancy Lutes, bassoon:
• 15 October 1999; Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH) — BGSU New Music and Art Festival
Heidi Dietrich Klein, voice; H. Gene Griswold, bassoon:
• 22 April 1999; Towson University (Towson, MD) — TU 20th Century Music Festival
Heidi Dietrich Klein, voice; Kristin Wolfe Jensen, bassoon:
• 3 June 1998; Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) — International Double Reed Society Conference
• 13 March 1998; Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA) — LSU New Music Festival
• 28 February 1998; University of Texas (San Antonio, TX) — UTSA New Music Festival
• 5 December 1997; University of Texas (Austin, TX)
• 1 October 1997; University of North Texas (Denton, TX) [premiere]
Downloads & Links:
audio excerpt (mp3)
Episodes 2-3 (score pp. 13-18); recorded October 1997 by Heidi Dietrich Klein (voice) and Kristin Wolfe Jensen (bassoon).
Complete recording available on CEMISonics: The Threshold of Sound (Centaur CRC-2407).
score (pdf)
"Music of the Metroplex" with host Kevin Sutton
Excerpts from a radio interview with composers Joseph Klein and Simon Sargon on WRR-FM (Dallas, TX), 14 December 2003; includes comments on Dog and Occam's Razor.
photograph
Joseph Klein with poet W.S. Merwin (April 1999).
