If you are interested in performing or presenting any of Phillip Bimstein’s works, please email phillip@bimstein.com

Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa

(8:20)

Originally composed for oboe, frogs, crickets and coyotes (synchronized soundtrack).

Subsequently arranged for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, tuba, violin, piano, plus a number of duet versions.

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Cats in the Kitchen

(13:00)

Originally scored for flute, oboe, meows, purrs, cracked eggs, sliced onions, buttered toast, sizzling skillets, spoons, knives, pepper grinder, toaster oven, pots, pans, draining dishwater, and pretty much everything else in the kitchen “sync.” The sound score also features feline duets and trios, cat food crunches and waterdrums.

Subsequently arranged for other wind, brass and string duos.

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Dark Winds Rising (wind quintet version)

(14:00)

String quartet and voices of the Kaibab Paiute tribe (synchronized soundtrack).

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Dark Winds Rising (string quartet version)

(14:00)

Wind Quintet and voices of the Kaibab Paiute tribe (synchronized soundtrack).

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Casino

(14:00)

String quartet and voices of the Kaibab Paiute tribe (synchronized soundtrack).

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Refuge

(19:00)

String quartet and the recorded voice of author Terry Tempest Williams (synchronized soundtrack).

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The Bushy Wushy Rag

(14:00)

Wind quintet and the recorded sounds of baseballs, baseball bats, catchers’ mitts, umpires –
and the voices of legendary St. Louis Cardinal announcer Jack Buck and Busch Stadium’s “Bushy Wushy the Beer Man” (synchronized soundtrack).

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The Louie Louie Variations

(10:00)

String quartet. A lively fantasy based on the archetypical I-IV-V chord progression of classic rock songs such as “Louie Louie.” It sends a small fragment on a deconstructive mission through a contemporary classical landscape.

Also available as a mandolin quartet, and in a mixed chamber ensemble.

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Garland Hirschi’s Cows

(13:00)

Orchestrated arrangement for live performance of the original recorded composition, a concerto in three “moo-vements,” for mixed chamber ensemble plus cows, cowbells, and the voice of rancher, Garland C. Hirschi (synchronized soundtrack).

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Lockdown!

(19:00)

Oboe, violin, guitar, bass plus handcuffs, metal detectors, slamming cell doors and the voices of a streetwise chorus of incarcerated teenagers (synchronized soundtrack).

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Rockville Utah 1926

(7:00)

String quartet based on thematic material from Phillip Bimstein’s Garland Hirschi’s Cows.

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The Brahma Viharas

(30:00)

A meditation for English horn and full orchestra, based on ancient Buddhist contemplative practices that cultivate the qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity in the human heart.

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A Secret Gift

(4:00 or 32:00)

Six orchestrated songs, based on poignant depression-era stories told in Ted Gup’s book.

The complete performance requires the participation of Red Rock Rondo, but the “Secret Prelude” (4:00) can be performed by the orchestra alone.

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The Door

(10:30)

Every sound in The Door is generated by Bimstein’s studio door, which creaks, and when opened and closed at different speeds and tensions, speaks eloquently and with incredible range. Available to be presented as a “tape” piece.

Vox=Dominum

(12:30)

Fragments of deconstructed Persian classical singing and words of the Sufi poet, Rumi, composed into a wholly new structure and style. Available to be presented as a “tape” piece.

Angels in the Cracks

(7:00)

Frying eggs, garden gates, dripping faucets, fingered a comb, seabirds, the London Tube and insolent floorboards, composed into a mysterious soundtrack. Available to be presented as a “tape” piece.

Garland Hirschi’s Cows

(13:00)

The original recorded composition, a concerto in three “moo-vements,” for cows, cowbells, and the voice of rancher, Garland C. Hirschi. Available to be presented as a “tape” piece.

Larkin Gifford’s Harmonica

(15:00)

Recorded oral history and harmonica composed into a portrait of early 1900s rural southern Utah life. Available to be presented as a “tape” piece.

Zion Canyon Song Cycle

(70:00)

17 chamber folk songs celebrating the history and contemporary life of the people who live in and around Zion National Park. Recorded and performed by the Emmy Award-winning ensemble, Red Rock Rondo.