Donald Harris’s
Compositions
List of Principal
works & Recordings
This is a selection of the more important
works presented in chronological order.
The date of publication and recording
details has been given where appropriate.
PIANO SONATA, 1957
Publication: Société
des Editions Jobert, Paris, 1965
Recording: Veronica Jochum, pianist,
Golden Crest NEC-107, 1974
FANTASY FOR VIOLIN & PIANO,
1957
Publication: Jobert,
Paris, 1965
Recordings: Paul Zukovsky, violinist,
Gilbert Kalish, pianist, CRI S-307,
1973 reissued as CRI CD-666, 1994
Hasse Borup, violinist, Mary Kathleen
Ernst, pianist, Centaur 2918, 2008
SYMPHONY IN TWO MOVEMENTS,
1958-61
Publication: Jobert,
Paris, 1965
Publication: Jobert,
Paris, 1965
Recording: Composers String Quartet,
CRI-274, 1972 reissued as CRI CD-666,
1994
LUDUS for Ten Instruments,
1966
Publication: Jobert,
Paris, 1968
Recording: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,
Sydney Hodkinson, conductor. CRI S-274,
1972 reissued as CRI-CD 666, 1994
LUDUS II for Five Instruments,
1973
Publication: Jobert,
Paris, 1974
Recording: Boston Musica Viva, Richard
Pittman, conductor, DELOS 25406, 1975
reissued as CD 1011, 1987
ON VARIATIONS for Chamber
Orchestra, 1976
Publication: Jobert,
Paris, 1979
CHARMES (Paul Valéry)
for Soprano and Orchestra, 1971-80
FOR THE NIGHT TO WEAR (Hortense
Flexner), Mezzo-Soprano & Chamber
Ensemble, 1978
Publication:
Theodore Presser, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1983
Recording: Janice Meyerson, Boston
Musica Viva, Richard, Pittman, cond.,
CRI CD-666, 1994
BALLADEN, Solo Piano, 1979
Publication: Theodore
Presser, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1983
Recording: Veronica Jochum, CRI CD-666,
1994
OF HARTFORD IN A PURPLE LIGHT
(Wallace Stevens), Soprano with Piano
Acc., 1979
Publication: Theodore
Presser, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1979
Recording: Susan Davenny Wyner, soprano,
Yehudi Wyner, piano, CRI CD-666, 1994
PRELUDE TO A CONCERT IN CONNECTICUT,
for Orchestra, 1981
LES MAINS (Marguerite Yourcenar),
Mezzo-Soprano with Piano Acc., 1983
Publication: Theodore Presser,
Bryn Mawr, PA, 1986
Recording: Janice Meyerson, mezzo-soprano,
Hugh Hinton, piano, CRI CD-666,
1994
MEDITATIONS, Organ Solo, 1984
Publication: Gunmar Music Inc, 1990
THREE FANFARES FOR FOUR HORNS,
1984
Publication: Gunmar Music Inc.1990
CANZONA & CAROL, for Double
Brass Quintet and Timpani, 1986
Publication: Gunmar Music, Inc.1990
PIERROT LIEDER (Albert Giraud
German translation, Otto Erich Hartleben),
soprano & chamber ensemble, 1988
Publication: Gunmar Music Inc.1990
Recording: Lucy Shelton, OSU Faculty
Ensemble, Craig Kirchhoff, cond.,
CRI CD-666, 1994
MERMAID VARIATIONS, for Chamber
Orchestra, 1992
Publication: Theodore Presser, Bryn
Mawr, PA, 1996
Recording: Cleveland Chamber Symphony,
Edwin London, cond., CRI CD-666, 1994
STRING QUARTET #2, 2002
A LYRIC FANFARE (for orchestra),
2003
FIVE TEMPI (LUDUS III), 2004
KALEIDOSCOPE (for orchestra),
2007
In progress: THE LITTLE MERMAID
(Marguerite Yourcenar, English translation,
Dori Katz), opera in three acts, 1985-
Stage Works, Incidental Music
THE LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY, Ballet
for Orchestra 1954, revised orchestration,
1979
THE GOLDEN DEER, Ballet for
Orchestra, 1955
INTERVALS, Dance Work for Chamber
Ensemble, 1959
A FANFARE FOR THE SEVENTIES,
March for Band, 1978
THE POET WITH THE BLUE GUITAR,
Documentary for radio on the life and
works of poet, Wallace Stevens (Connecticut
Public Radio), written and directed
by Jordan Pecile, produced by D. Bradford
Spear, featuring Estelle Parsons, Alexander
Scourby, and the participation of Holly
Stevens, Richard Eberhart, John Hollander,
Brendan Gill and Helen Vendler Incidental
Music for Flute and Guitar, 1979 recipient
of a 1981 Ohio State Broadcasting Award.
FIRES, Radio Dramatization of
the prose poem by Marguerite Yourcenar
(Connecticut Public Radio), translated
by Dori Katz, adapted by Jordan Pecile,
directed by Ellen Kraft, featuring Anne
Baxter, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock,
Linda McGuire, and Lisa Banes Incidental
Music for Orchestra,1983
A BIRTHDAY CARD FOR GUNTHER,
in honor of the 60th Birthday of Gunther
Schuller, solo violin, 1985 Publication:
Perspectives of New Music, Spring-Summer,
1986, Vol. 24, No. 2
Donald Harris 2008 Ó
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