Brian Kehlenbach
 
Composer/Pianist
 
Surprised by Evening (poetry by Robert Bly) (mp3)
Melody Versoza - soprano,  Brian Kehlenbach - piano
 
Two Songs on poems by  Rainer Maria Rilke  
     Plumb Apple  (mp3)
     Dance the Orange  (mp3)
Melody Versoza - soprano,  Brian Kehlenbach - piano
 
Three Songs on poems by  Emily Dickinson
     Could I but Ride Indefinite  (mp3)
     I Taste a Liquor  (mp3)
     Will There Really be a Morining  (mp3)
Melody Versoza - soprano,  Brian Kehlenbach - piano, David Lopez - clarinet
 
Four Songs for Advent (poetry by Paul Buchanan)
    The Shepherd's Candle (mp3)
    The Prophet's candle (mp3)
    The Wise men's candle (mp3)
    The Christ Candle (mp3)
Melody Versoza - soprano,  Brian Kehlenbach - piano

Two Choral Arrangements on Poetry of Paul Buchanan
    A Western Star (mp3)
Eileen O’Hern - soprano
    Bless Each Syllable (mp3)
The Biola University Youth Theatre directed by Eileen O’Hern
 
Chant (mp3  - 8 minutes) for piano and tuba
David Holben - tuba, Brian Kehlenbach - piano

Elegy on the Death of Pluto (mp3 - 8 minutes) for wind ensemble or concert band
Performed by the Irvine Valley Wind Symphony under the direction of Stephen Rochford.
 
Popped Music (WAV - 30 sec. excerpt)
Instrumentation: Live Synthesizer and tape
Duration: about 9:00
 
Circumdare (WAV - 30 sec. excerpt)
Instrumentation: Orchestra 2222 4331, 2 perc., strings
Duration: about 10:00
Circumdare is a one-movement orchestral piece which presents carefully controlled motivic material in various melodic, harmonic and textural contexts. The motives are gestures which are based upon shapes of the circle, arch, and spiral. Circumdare has been performed at USC and by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra during the Spoleto festival of 1996.

Entropic Rondo (WAV - 30 sec. excerpt)
Instrumentation: Solo Piano
Duration: about 10:00
Entropic Rondo is a one-movement piece for piano which attempts to develop along traditional means (in rondo form) but flirts with formal breakdown as the materials sometimes "dissolve" into basic and uniform componants. The piece has been played at Rancho Santiago College and also during the Los Angeles John Cage Festival of 1995.

The Twenty-Fifth Hour (WAV - 30 sec. excerpt)
Instrumentation: flute (picc.), oboe, clarinet, bassoon, F horn, percussion, violin I, violin II, viola, cello, bass
Duration: about 20:00
The Twenty-Fifth Hour is a four-movement piece for chamber ensemble. The movements are labeled alla marcia, insistently, prelude, and dance. Much of the melodic and harmonic material of each movement is derived from a pentatonic (five-tone) scale. The title refers to the hour of reckoning and the attitude of man in the face of his impending fate.

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