Early Pieces
Again; Against (for flute, clarinet, violin and cello) (1988)
Piano Sonata (1986)
Choreography for Orchestra (1987)
33 Codas
33 Codas for flute, piano and percussion. It was commissioned and performed by the Taneko Ensemble: Roger Nelson, piano; Paul Taub, flute; and Matthew Kocmieroski, percussion. The premiere of the piece was at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Among/of/green... is the shortened title of a composition for viola, (classical) guitar, and piano, commissioned and premiered by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. The full title is the entire thirteen word text of William Carlos Williams's poem "The Locust Tree in Flower":
Among
of
green
stiff
old
bright
broken
branch
come
white
sweet
May
again
A recording of the piece was included on the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble's 2005 CD "San Francisco Premieres".
Together At Last
A Bottle On The Waters is an eight and a half minute electro-acoustic composition by John Schott and John Hanes. It was commissioned by the Near Eastern Studies department of UC Berkeley for a program commemorating Israeli poet Dahlia Ravakovitch. Several layers of recordings of people reading the poem in English and Hebrew are mixed with recorded instruments and electronic processing.
Diglossia
In These Great Times
In These Great Times is the name of a song cycle by John Schott and also the title of his first record (Tzadik 7115, 1997). It is scored for electric guitar, acoustic bass, drum set, and tenor voice. It received its only performance to date at Merkin Hall, New York City, at a concert of "Radical Jewish Culture" curated by John Zorn. It was performed by Schott, Trevor Dunn, Kenny Wollesen, and John Horton Murray.
The texts in the piece are 1) excerpts from Karl Kraus's speech regarding World War One, In Dieser Grossen Zeit, sung in German; the short text Der kommen des Messias by Franz Kafka, sung in Hebrew (translated by Naomi Seidman); 3) the Yiddish poem 1919 by Jacob Glatshteyn.
The CD was recorded in the fall of 1996 at Systems Two in Brooklyn, New York.
Eons
Second Thoughts
Music for Mac Wellman’s “Girl Gone”