Below is a partial list of works performed
by Dinosaur Annex since 1987. Venues have included First
& Second Church in Boston (where the ensemble performs
its regular series), other locations in Boston and Cambridge
including Jordan Hall, Paine Hall, Tremont Temple, Berklee
College of Music, and the Holmes Elementary School; Goodman
and Weill Halls in New York; Amherst and Smith Colleges,
Clark University, and the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst; the University of New Hampshire at Durham; the
Provincetown Art Association, and on special tours to
the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and the Ijsbreker in
Amsterdam.
|

Composer
|

Work
|

Soloists, conductors, notes
|

Dates performed
|
| Theodore Antoniou |
Aphierosis |
|
11/8/87
12/31/87 |
|
Milton Babbitt |
Souper |
Karol Bennett, soprano, Stephen
Mosko, conductor; first Boston performance |
4/14/91 |
| Milton Babbitt |
Homily |
First Boston performance |
2/13/94 |
| Milton Babbitt |
Septet But Equal |
First performance, Koussevitzky
Foundation Commission |
2/13/94 |
| Milton Babbitt |
Septet But Equal |
Gunther Schuller, conductor |
11/14/96 |
| Bela Bartók |
Contrasts |
|
5/1/94 |
| Ross Bauer |
Aplomb |
|
5/11/97 |
| Eve Beglarian |
Making Sense of It All |
|
2/12/89
10/24/99 |
| Eve Beglarian |
Preciosilla |
First Boston performance |
10/14/90 |
| Eve Beglarian |
Machaut in the Machine Age |
First Boston performance |
10/24/93 |
| Arthur Berger |
Ode of Ronsard |
|
11/8/87 |
| Arthur Berger |
Dyptich: Collages 1 & 2 |
First performance |
2/2/92 |
| Arthur Berger |
Postcard |
First performance, written for
the 20th Anniversary of Dinosaur Annex |
2/12/95 |
| Arthur Berger |
Three One-Part Inventions |
|
4/14/96 |
| Ran Blake |
The Death of Billie Holiday |
Ran Blake, piano |
4/30/89
5/7/89 |
| Pierre Boulez |
Dérive |
|
2/7/93 |
| Martin Boykan |
Sonata for Violin and Piano |
|
2/4/96 |
| Martin Boykan |
Piano Trio #2 |
First performance; Dinosaur Annex
commission |
1/25/98 |
| Martin Boykan |
Usurpations |
|
5/6/01 |
| Henry Brant |
Music for an Imaginary Ballet |
|
12/31/87 |
| Henry Brant |
All Souls Carnival |
|
4/14/91 |
| Dana Brayton |
A Little Traveling Music |
first performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission |
4/14/96 |
| Dana Brayton |
Bell Birds |
first performance |
5/6/01 |
| Jeffrey Brooks |
Composition for Pipes and Winds
|
|
5/90 |
| Jeffrey Brooks |
Planting Tears |
First Boston performance, Dinosaur
Annex consortium commission |
2/4/96 |
| Gerard Brophy |
Seraphita |
First US performance |
11/15/92 |
| Margaret Brouwer |
Chamber Concerto |
Boston Premiere |
2/15/98
3/22/98 |
| Richard Busch |
Dunes |
|
8/30/89 |
| John Cage |
Sonatas for prepared piano (IV,
X, XI, XII) |
|
4/28/93 |
| Edmund Campion |
A Treasured Collection of Eddies
|
John Harbison, conductor; first
Boston performance |
5/7/95 |
| Edmund Campion |
Losing Touch |
James Russell Smith, vibes
first Boston performance |
2/2/97
2/9/97 |
| Elliott Carter |
Canon for Four |
|
11/15/92 |
| Elliott Carter |
Canonic Suite |
|
3/22/98 |
| Robert Ceely |
Metamir |
|
2/12/89 |
| Evan Chambers |
The Fire Hose Reel |
First Boston performance |
11/15/98 |
| Aaron Copland |
Two Threnodies |
|
10/23/88 |
| Henry Cowell |
Iridescent Rondo in Old Modes |
|
2/15/98 |
| Mario Davidovsky |
Chaconna |
|
10/30/94 |
| Mario Davidovsky |
Flashbacks |
|
11/15/98 |
| Lyle Davidson |
Centering |
|
3/20/87 |
| Lyle Davidson |
Furies of Complexity |
Marylène Altieri, mezzo-soprano |
2/7/93 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies |
Le Jongleur de Notre Dame |
Mass. Youth Wind Ensemble, Nat
Warren-White juggler |
10/23/88
12/31/88
3/89 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies |
Runes from a Holy Island |
Adam Grossman, conductor; first
US performance |
3/29/92 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies |
Solita |
|
2/7/93 |
| Tamar Diesendruck |
Being As How |
John Harbison, conductor; first
performance, Dinosaur Annex commission |
5/7/95 |
| Tamar Diesendruck |
On That Day |
First Boston performance |
10/20/91 |
| Tamar Diesendruck |
Sound Reasoning in the Tower of
Babel |
|
4/28/93
5/1/94 |
| Tamar Diesendruck |
Strange Lines and Distances |
First performance |
10/24/99 |
| Norman Dinerstein |
Zalmen |
First Boston performance |
5/11/97 |
| Franco Donatoni |
Lumen |
First Boston performance |
2/4/96 |
| Sara Doncaster |
Rhapsody |
First performance; Dinosaur Annex
commission |
3/22/98 |
| Jacob Druckman |
Come Round |
First Boston performance |
10/24/93 |
| Paul Elwood |
Altars Altered |
First US performance |
4/30/00 |
| Richard Felciano |
Shadows |
Adam Grossman, conductor; first
Boston performance |
3/29/92 |
| Thomas Flaherty |
Quartet for Viola, 'Cello and
Digital Processor |
First Boston performance |
5/1/94 |
| Lukas Foss |
Time Cycle |
Jayne West, soprano, Christopher
Kendall, conductor |
10/5/96
10/6/96 |
| Donal Fox |
Toccata |
First performance |
3/29/92 |
| Donal Fox |
improvisation |
the composer with members of Dinosaur
Annex |
3/29/92 |
| David Froom |
Chamber Concerto |
Christopher Kendall, conductor;
first Boston performance |
10/8/95 |
| Kyle Gann |
Chicago Spiral |
First performance |
2/2/92
2/12/95 |
| Michael Gordon |
The Low Quartet |
First Boston performance |
2/2/92 |
| Philip Grange |
Cimmerian Nocturne |
|
11/8/87
11/15/92 |
| Philip Grange |
Des Fins sont des Commencements |
First US performance |
2/2/97
2/9/97 |
| Tom Guralnick and the Mobile Saxophone
and Mute Unit |
selections |
Tom Guralnick, guest artist |
2/2/92 |
| Mark Gustavson |
Quintet |
First Boston performance |
2/4/01 |
| Henry Gwiazda |
themusicofthefutureisnotmusic
|
First Boston performance |
10/24/93 |
| John Harbison |
Between Two Worlds |
Kendra Colton, soprano; first Boston
performance |
3/7/99 |
| John Harbison |
Due Libri dei Mottetti
di Montale
|
Lorraine Hunt, soprano, John Harbison,
conductor; first Boston performance |
5/7/95 |
| John Harbison |
Piano Quintet |
|
10/20/91 |
| John Harbison |
Rot und Weiss Im Spiegel; |
Karol Bennett, soprano, Stephen
Mosko, conductor; first Boston performances |
4/14/91 |
| Stephen Hartke |
The King of the Sun |
First Boston performance |
10/14/90
11/15/91 |
| John Heiss |
Bagatelles |
|
2/90 |
| Paul Hindemith |
March |
Mass. Youth Wind Ensemble |
10/23/88 |
| Peter Homans |
Bridges |
US Premiere |
10/19/97 |
| Peter Homans |
Tavistock |
First Boston performance |
9/16/00 |
| Lee Hyla |
Pre-Pulse Suspended |
Gunther Schuller,guest conductor |
4/30/89
5/7/89 |
| Lee Hyla |
Ciao, Manhattan |
First performance, Meet the Composer
commission |
2/17/91 |
| Lee Hyla |
In Double Light |
|
11/15/92 |
| Kamran Ince |
Hammer Music |
Christopher Kendall, conductor |
10/8/95 |
| Charles Ives |
Five Takeoffs |
|
10/23/88 |
| Charles Ives |
Trio |
|
8/30/89
2/90 |
| Charles Ives |
Studies nos. 16,20,23 |
|
4/28/93 |
| Charles Ives |
Studies, Five Take-Offs |
|
4/14/96 |
| David Jaggard |
Quartet |
|
4/30/00 |
| Hunter Johnson |
Sonata for piano |
|
5/6/01 |
| Mauricio Kagel |
Phantasiestück |
First Boston performance |
2/2/97
2/9/97 |
| Oliver Knussen |
Trumpets |
Karol Bennett, soprano, Stephen
Mosko, conductor; first Boston performance |
4/14/91 |
| Vance Koven |
Collectibles |
DíAnna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano |
2/15/98 |
| Ernst Krenek |
String Trio |
|
3/20/87 |
| Ian Krouse |
Tientos |
First Boston performance |
10/8/95 |
| Maria Lambertini |
Misa de Pájaros |
|
2/90 |
| David Lang |
Burn Notice |
|
10/29/89 |
| David Lang |
Vent |
First Boston performance |
2/13/94 |
| Alcides Lanza |
Acufenos III |
First US performance |
10/14/90 |
| Libby Larsen |
Corker |
First Boston performance |
11/15/98 |
| Tania Léon |
Parajota de la te |
First Boston performance |
10/14/90 |
| Arthur Levering |
Catena |
First performance
Donald Berman, piano |
9/16/00 |
| Arthur Levering |
Clarion/Shadowing |
|
4/9/98 |
| Arthur Levering |
Cloches II |
First performance |
4/9/98 |
| Arthur Levering |
School of Velocity |
|
4/28/93
4/9/98 |
| Arthur Levering |
Twenty Ways Upon the Bells |
First performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission |
10/30/94
1/25/98
4/9/98 |
| Arthur Levering |
Uncle Inferno |
|
4/9/98 |
| György Ligeti |
Etudes |
First Boston performance |
2/17/91 |
| György Ligeti |
Poème Symphonique |
New England Metronome Ensemble |
11/8/87 |
| Györgi Ligeti |
Ramifications |
|
9/16/00 |
| Scott Lindroth |
Relations to Rigor |
|
2/90
2/7/93 |
| Scott Lindroth |
Light |
D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo soprano;
first Boston performance |
2/12/95
1/25/98 |
| Scott Lindroth |
Stomp |
First Boston performance |
9/16/00 |
| David Liptak |
Ancient Songs |
First Boston performance; William
Sharp, baritone |
11/15/98 |
| Rodney Lister |
The Ballad of the Children of
the Czar |
D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo soprano |
2/12/95 |
| Ruth Lomon |
The Talisman |
|
2/12/89 |
| Ruth Lomon |
Esquisses |
First Boston performance |
4/28/93 |
| Witold Lutoslawski |
Subito |
First Boston performance |
5/11/97 |
| Witold Lutoslawski |
Dance Preludes |
|
2/15/98
3/22/98 |
| David Macbride |
Shape Notes |
First Boston performance |
5/2/99 |
| Tod Machover |
Yoku Mireba |
First performance of revised version |
4/30/00 |
| Steven Mackey |
Indigenous Instruments |
Adam Grossman, conductor |
3/29/92 |
| Ursula Mamlok |
When Summer Sang |
|
8/30/89
10/29/89 |
| Ursula Mamlok |
Five Bagatelles |
First Boston performance |
5/1/94 |
| Salvatore Martirano |
Phleu |
Wendy Rolfe, flute |
11/15/91 |
| William Mayer |
Messages |
First Boston performance |
2/4/96 |
| John McDonald |
Aubade with Merengue |
first performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission |
4/14/96 |
| Harold Meltzer |
Exiles |
Paul Sperry, tenor; first Boston
performance |
2/4/01 |
| Darius Milhaud |
Suite Française |
Mass. Youth Wind Ensemble |
10/23/88 |
| James Mobberley |
In Bocca del Lupo |
Cyrus Stevens, violin; first Boston
performance |
2/13/94 |
| Eric Moe |
Riprap |
first Boston performance |
4/14/91 |
| Eric Moe |
On the Tip of my Tongue |
|
2/12/95 |
| Eric Moe |
Grande Etude Brilliante |
First Boston performance |
4/14/96 |
| Stephen Mosko |
Schweres Loos |
Karol Bennett, soprano, Stephen
Mosko, conductor; first Boston performance |
4/14/91 |
| Jeff Nichols |
The Light Fantastic |
First performance, Fromm Foundation
commission |
2/7/93
3/22/98 |
| Jeff Nichols |
Caracole |
First performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission |
4/14/96 |
| Juliet Palmer |
Skirt |
First Boston performance |
10/24/93 |
| Danilo Perez & Steve Turre |
improvisation |
|
10/14/90 |
| George Perle |
Sextet |
Christopher Kendall, conductor |
10/5/96
10/6/96 |
| Malcolm Peyton |
Four Songs from Shakespeare |
D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo soprano |
2/17/91 |
| Malcolm Peyton |
Sonnets from John Donne |
David Ripley, baritone, Malcolm
Peyton, conductor |
11/15/91 |
| Malcolm Peyton |
Suite for Seven Players |
First performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission |
2/2/97
2/4/97
2/9/97 |
| Geoffrey Poole |
Septembral |
First US performance |
10/24/99 |
| Mel Powell |
Die Violine |
Karol Bennett, soprano, Stephen
Mosko, conductor; first Boston performance |
4/14/91 |
| Anthony Powers |
Another Part of the Island |
|
5/90 |
| David Rakowski |
Imaginary Dances |
Donald Palma, conductor |
10/19/97 |
| Shulamit Ran |
Mirage |
|
10/5/96
10/6/96 |
| Ned Rorem |
Serenade on Five English Poems |
DíAnna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano;
First Boston performance |
1/25/98
2/15/98 |
| Mathew Rosenblum |
Circadian Rhythms |
First Boston performance |
10/20/91 |
| Robert Rowe |
Hall of Mirrors |
|
3/20/87 |
| Poul Ruders |
Corpus cum Figuris |
First Boston performance |
9/16/00 |
| Elena Ruehr |
Nightingale |
First performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission |
4/30/00 |
| Carl Ruggles |
Evocations |
|
4/28/93 |
| Laurie San Martin |
Bone Dance |
commissioned for Dinosaur Annex |
2/4/01 |
| Arnold Schoenberg |
Suite op. 29 |
|
3/20/87 |
| Gunther Schuller and Ran Blake |
The Trial |
Ran Blake, piano; Gunther Schuller,
conductor
First performance; Dinosaur Annex commission |
4/30/89
5/7/89 |
| Roger Sessions, arr. Richard Aldag |
scenes from Montezuma |
First Boston performance; John
Harbison, conductor, Kendra Colton, soprano |
3/7/99 |
| Harold Shapero |
String Trio |
|
8/30/89 |
| Ralph Shapey |
Three for Six |
|
10/29/89 |
| Ralph Shapey |
Variations for Viola and 10 instruments |
Walter Trampler, viola; first Boston
performance |
2/17/91 |
| Ralph Shapey |
Dinosaur Annex |
First performance, written for
the 20th Anniversary of Dinosaur Annex |
10/30/94
5/2/99 |
| Ralph Shapey |
Evocation #1 |
|
2/25/97
5/11/97 |
| Judith Shatin |
Fasting Heart |
|
2/12/89 |
| Allen Shearer |
We Three |
First Boston performance |
10/14/90 |
| Bright Sheng |
Four Movements for Piano Trio |
|
11/15/92 |
| Ezra Sims |
Quintet for clarinet and strings |
|
3/20/88 |
| Ezra Sims |
Night Piece |
|
10/29/89 |
| Ezra Sims |
Flight |
|
4/14/91 |
| Ezra Sims |
All Done From Memory |
|
5/1/94 |
| Ezra Sims |
Stanzas |
First performance, written for
the 20th Anniversary of Dinosaur Annex |
5/7/95 |
| Ezra Sims |
Twenty Years After |
|
2/15/98
3/22/98 |
| Robert Sirota |
Seven Picassos |
|
12/31/87 |
| James Russell Smith |
The Presence of Things |
First performance, Dinosaur Annex
commission; James Russell Smith, conductor |
5/2/99 |
| James Russell Smith |
Triple Helix |
|
10/30/94 |
| Lewis Spratlan |
Life is a Dream, Act II, concert
version |
J. David Jackson, conductor; Allan
Glassman, tenor; John Cheek, bass-baritone; Christina
Bouras, soprano; William Hite, tenor; David Ripley,
bass-baritone; first performance, winner of Pulitzer
Prize |
1/30/00 |
| Lewis Spratlan |
Penelope's Knees |
Gunther Schuller, conductor |
4/30/89
5/7/89 |
| Lewis Spratlan |
Sojourner |
First performance, commissioned
by Koussevitzky Foundation for Dinosaur Annex |
1/30/00 |
| Lewis Spratlan |
When Crows Gather |
|
2/13/94 |
| Manfred Stahnke |
Viola Sonata in Just Intonation |
First US performance |
10/20/91 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen |
Tierkreis |
First Boston performance |
5/7/95 |
| Gordon Stout |
Two Mexican Dances |
|
5/2/99 |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Élégie |
|
10/23/88 |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Duo Concertante |
|
5/11/97 |
| Donald Sur |
A Neo-Platonic Epistrophe: While
Crossing Times Square |
First Boston performance; John
Harbison, conductor |
3/7/99 |
| Su Lian Tan |
Invention and Sinfonia |
First Boston performance |
2/4/01 |
| Hilary Tann |
From the Song of Amergin |
First Boston performance |
4/30/00 |
| Hilary Tann |
Of Erthe and Air |
First Boston performance |
10/19/97 |
| Ivan Tcherepnin |
Cadenzas in Transition |
|
2/2/97
2/9/97 |
| Ivan Tcherepnin |
Pensiamento |
|
2/2/97
2/9/97 |
| Ivan Tcherepnin |
Prelude and March |
|
4/30/00 |
| Virgil Thomson |
Mostly About Love |
|
8/30/89 |
| Virgil Thomson (arr. Wheeler) |
Northeastern Suite |
|
10/29/89 |
| Joan Tower |
Amazon |
|
10/8/95 |
| various very young composers (age
11-16) |
various works |
under the direction of Rodney Lister |
4/14/91 |
| Alejandro Viñao |
Triple Concerto |
|
11/8/87
10/30/94 |
| Ezequiel Viñao |
The Conference of the Birds |
First Boston performance |
4/14/96 |
| Judith Weir |
Several Concertos |
|
2/12/89
10/24/93 |
| Judith Weir |
Distance and Enchantment |
US Premiere |
2/17/91 |
| Judith Weir |
Serbian Cabaret |
US Premiere
First Boston performance |
10/5/96
10/6/96 |
| Judith Weir |
Trio |
First Boston performance |
5/6/01 |
| Scott Wheeler |
Shadow Bands |
First Boston performance |
2/2/92 |
| Scott Wheeler |
Flow Chart |
First performance |
4/28/93 |
| Scott Wheeler |
Winter Hills |
|
2/12/95 |
| Donald Wheelock |
Piano Quartet |
First performance, Dinosauar Annex
commission |
11/15/98 |
| Barbara White |
the mind's fear, the heart's delight |
First Boston performance |
2/4/01 |
| Mark Wingate |
Sombras |
First Boston performance |
5/6/01 |
| Christian Wolff |
Peace March (Stop Using Uranium) |
First Boston performance |
4/30/00 |
| Stefan Wolpe |
Piece for Two Instrumental Units |
First Boston performance
Donald Palma, conductor |
10/19/97 |
| Randall Woolf |
Modern Primitive |
First performance |
2/2/92
2/4/96 |
| Randall Woolf |
Quicksilver |
|
4/30/00 |
| Charles Wuorinen |
Bearbeitungen über das Glogauer
Liederbuch |
|
2/90 |
| Yehudi Wyner |
Tanz and Maissele |
First Boston performance |
10/24/99 |
| Chen Yi |
Qi |
First Boston performance |
10/24/99 |
| Ellen Taaffe Zwilich |
Passages |
Nancy Armstrong, soprano |
5/2/99 |