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Weave for Two Voices, Chamber Orchestra and Chorus; Commissioned by Grand Center Inc and the Los Angeles Master Chorale
Education of the Girlchild Revisited; 4 performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC, performances Atelier de Paris, La Cartoucherie, Paris, France; Marseille Objectif Danse, Marseille, France
Ascension Variations; 130 Performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC, performances Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, rotunda
Songs of Ascension; 8 Voices, String Quartet, Woodwinds, Percussion, Shrutis, Chorus
Songs of Ascension; 12 Performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Stanford Lively Arts by Van and Eddie Van Auken (world premiere); Transatlantic Arts Consortium (a partnership between the California Institute of the Arts, Dartington Plus and Idyllwild Arts); the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Argosy Foundation Fund for Contemporary Music; the ASCAP Foundation and the Harness Foundation for Dance, performances Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University, CA; Ann Hamilton’s Tower, Geysersville, CA; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana-Champaign, IL; BAM Harvey Theater, Brooklyn, NY
Basket Rondo; Commissioned by the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, 6 voices Three Heavens and Hells; (Choral Version), Commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, 44 voices
impermanence (part 2); 8 Voices, Piano, Keyboard, Marimba, Vibraphone, Percussion, Violin, Winds, Bicycle Wheel impermanence; 8 performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts; Brooklyn Academy of Music; American Music Center’s Live Music for Dance Program; and Arts International’s Artist Exploration Fund, performances Galvin Playhouse, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; San Francisco Performances at The Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA; Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Burghof, Stimmen Festival, Lorrach, Germany; Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Belgrade, Serbia; Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Night; Chamber Orchestra, 8 Voices
Vocal Gestures; Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York. Stringsongs; commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, Cliff Light, Tendrils, Obsidian Chorale, Phantom Strings impermanence (part 1); 8 Voices, Piano, Keyboard, Marimba, Vibraphone, Percussion, Violin, Winds, Bicycle Wheel
The impermanence Project; 8 performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Rosetta Life, UK, performances Riverside Studios, London, UK
Archeology of an Artist 2; Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania
Possible Sky; first symphonic work commissioned by Michael Tilson Thomas for the New World Symphony Last Song; solo voice and piano; words by James Hillman
Show People: Downtown Directors and the Play of Time; Exit Art/The First World, New York.
mercy; 7 Voices, 2 Keyboards, Percussion, Violin, Winds Refractive Voices; Collaboration with David Behrman, Voice, Electronics, Viola Ancestor Shout; Collaboration with David Behrman, Piano – 4 hands, 2 Voices, Electronics, Tape Little Breath Motor; Collaboration with David Behrman, Voice, Electronics Boys 1; Boys 2; Boys 3; 4 Voices, Overdubbed Tape Piece composed for a reading of Rick Moody’s BOYS on WNYC mercy; 8 Performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; The American Dance Festival through the Doris Duke Awards for New Work; The Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, performances The American Dance Festival, Durham, NC; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut; Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Light Project, Miami, Florida; Performing Arts Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New York; Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Micki Suite; 4 voices Eclipse Variations; 4 Voices, Esraj, Sampler
Clarinet Study #1, solo clarinet Cello Study #1, solo cello and voice Trumpet Study #1, solo trumpet Art Performs Life: Merce Cunningham/ Meredith Monk/ Billt T. Jones; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Magic Frequencies, 6 Voices, Percussion, 2 Keyboards, Theremin, Violin Magic Frequencies; 8 Performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; DANCE 98/City of Munich, Cultural Department and Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel/Marstall, performances Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA; Dance 98, Muffathalle, Munich, Germany, The Joyce Theater, New York, NY; Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Krannert Center, Urbana, IL; Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI; Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI; Agnes Scott Theater, Decatur, GA; Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX; Chamizal Theater, El Paso, TX; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Alex Theater, Glendale, CA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Trafo, Budapest, Hungary; The Archa Theater, Prague, Czech Republic
Steppe Music; Solo Piano The Politics of Quiet; 10 Voices, 2 Keyboards, French Horn, Violin, Bowed Psaltry The Politics of Quiet: a music theater oratorio; 12 Performers, commissioned by The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; Lied Center for the Performing Arts. Lincoln, NE; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Pittsburgh Dance Council and Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA performances PS122, NYC; Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA; Musikteatret Albertslund, Copenhagen, Denmark; Festival D'Avignon, Avignon, France; Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE; The Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; Encontros Acarte Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN A Celebration Service; 13 Performers, performances American Guild of Organists/Union Theological Seminary/James Memorial Chapel, NYC; Spoleto Festival; Charleston, SC; Walker Art Center/First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, MN; Danspace Project, New York, NY Archeology of an Artist, Vincent Astor Gallery, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York.
Nightfall; 16 voices Denkai and Krikiki Chants; 4 voices
American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island; 9 Voices, Organ, Bass, Medieval Drum, Shawm Volcano Songs (Solo); Solo Voice, Voice with Taped Voices and Piano St. Petersburg Waltz; Solo Piano Version Volcano Songs; commissioned by The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The House Foundation for the Arts, NYC; PS 122, NYC; Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA performances The Walker Art Center; PS122; Hancher Auditorium; Portland Art Museum; Portland, OR; Theater Bernardines, Marseille, France; International Summer Theater Festival, Hamburg, Germany; Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA; Festival d’automne, Paris, France; Saitama Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan; American Archeology # 1; for seventy performers, performed at two sites in New York: Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park, and Renwick Ruin.
24 Hours of Faces (part 1 and 2); Color, Silent, 3/4” and 1/2” videotape. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by Nick Blair. Edited at Morty’s, New York City with Bruce Ashkinos. Part I was used in the Shrine Installation of VOLCANO SONGS and ran as a continuous loop. Part II was used in the live performance
Custom Made
Street Corner Pierrot; music by Donald Ashwander. West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York. Evanescence; in collaboration with Lanny Harrison. Music by Donald Ashwander. West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York.
Three Heavens and Hells; 4 voices Atlas: An Opera in Three Parts; released on ECM New Series, CD, 437 439-2.
ATLAS: An Opera in Three Parts; 18 Voices, 2 Keyboards, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Sheng, Bamboo Sax, 2 Violins, Viola, 2 Cellos, French Horn, Percussion, Shawm ATLAS: an opera in three parts; 29 Performers, commissioned by The Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Wexner Center for the Performing Arts, Columbus, OH; The American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, PA; Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, performances The Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX; The Wexner Center for the Performing Arts; American Music Theater Festival, Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany; Odeon Theater, Paris, France; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Book of Days (ECM Records); 12 Voices, Synthesizer, Cello, Bagpipe, Hurdy Gurdy, Piano, Hammered Dulcimer Phantom Waltz; 2 Pianos Facing North; 2 Voices, Tape Developed in collaboration with Robert Een Facing North; 2 Performers, performances The House Loft, NYC; West Kortright Centre, East Meredith, New York; The Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Laforet Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan; Black Box Theater, Oslo, Norway; Mythos Festival, Philadelphia, PA; Trinity College, Hartford, CT; Festival d'Automne, Paris, France; District Curators, Washington, DC; Carl Orff Saal, Munich, Germany; Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany; Kurhaus, Hall in Tirol, Austria; Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI; Kaufman Auditorium, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI; The Clark Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC; Théâtre de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland; Novell Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
Book of Days (film score); 10 Voices, Cello, Shawm, Synthesizer, Hammered Dulcimer, Bagpipe, Hurdy Gurdy Fayum Music; Voice, Hammered Dulcimer, Double Ocarina Light Songs; Solo Voice Raven; Solo Piano Book of Days; black-and-white and color, sound (stereo/Dolby), 35mm, 74 minutes. Director of photography: Jerry Pantzer. Costumes and art direction: Yoshio Yabara. First 35mm screening at New York Film Festival, New York. Reedited for television: video, 55 minutes: in association with Alive From Off Center, New York.
Cat Song; Solo Voice Parlour Games; 2 Pianos Processional; Solo Piano, Voice Book of Days; Black and White and Color, Sound (Stereo/Dolby), 74:21 Minutes (35mm-1:33/video), 1" 3/4" and 1/2"videotape. 55:36 minutes (Video/Television version), 1" 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Directed by Meredith Monk. Director of Photography Jerry Pantzer; Art Direction and Costume Design by Yoshio Yabara; Music by Meredith Monk; Edited by Girish Bhargava. BOOK OF DAYS is a production of Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc., La Sept, in Association with Alive From Off Center. BOOK OF DAYS is a film about time, drawing parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with our modern times of racial and religious conflict, AIDS, and the fear of nuclear annihilation
Duet Behavior; 2 voices The Ringing Place; 9 voices Do You Be (ECM Records); 10 Voices, 2 Pianos, Synthesizer, Violin, Bagpipes The Ringing Place; 12 Performers, performances Work-In-Progress presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Scared Song; Solo Voice, Synthesizer and Piano I Don't Know; Solo Voice and Piano Double Fiesta; Solo Voice, 2 Pianos String; Unaccompanied Solo Voice Window in 7's (for Nurit) ; Solo Piano Acts From Under and Above Ellis Island; 2 Pianos
Acts from Under and Above; in collaboration with Lanny Harrison; for three performers. La Mama Annex, New York.
Book of Days; 25 Voices, Synthesizer, Piano Book of Days; (Chamber Version), 7 Voices, Synthesizer Window Song; Composed for Ping Chong's Nosferatu Road Songs; Composed for David Byrne's True Stories
Panda Chant I; 4 voices Panda Chant II; 8 voices Graduation Song; 16 voices City Songs; 2 voices and 2 keyboards Turtle Dreams (Cabaret); for seven performers. Plexus, New York. The Games; in collaboration with Ping Chong; for sixteen performers. Commissioned by the Schaub¸hne am Lehnier Platz, West Berlin. Costumes and scenery by Yoshio Yabara. Schaub¸hne am Lehniner Platz, West Berlin. Mermaid Adventures; color, silent, 10 minutes, 16mm. Projected during Turtle Dreams (Cabaret). Turtle Dreams (Waltz); color, sound, 1 3/4 ñ and Ω in. video, 27 minutes. Directed by Ping Chong; performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble; coproduced by WGBH-Boston.
Tokyo Cha-Cha; 6 Voices, 2 Electric Organs Engine Steps; Tape Collage 2 Men Walking; 3 Voices, Electric Organs The Games; 16 Voices, Synthesizer, Keyboards Flemish Bagpipes, Bagpipes, Chinese Horn and Rauschpfeife
The Games; In collaboration with Ping Chong 16 Performers, commissioned by The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, West Berlin, Germany, performances The Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; University of California, Berkeley, CA; Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Turtle Dreams; 7 performers, Villager Award for Outstanding Composition 1983, performances Plexus, NYC; Dance Umbrella, London, England; Theater Festival of the Americas, Montreal, Canada; La Mama Annex, NYC
Turtle Dreams (Waltz) ;Color, Sound, 27 Minutes, 1", 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Conceived by Meredith Monk. Performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble. Directed by Ping Chong. Music by Meredith Monk. Co-Produced by WGBH-Boston. TURTLE DREAMS (WALTZ) is a music piece with movement for 4 voices and 2 organs. The piece was first performed in 1981, and received the Grand Prize - Performance Video at the first Festival of Video Culture/Canada in Toronto, 1983 Mermaid Adventures; Color, Silent, 10 Minutes, 16mm. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by David Gearey. This film was projected in the Pre-set section of the stage production TURTLE DREAMS (Cabaret).
View No.1; Piano, Synthesizer, Voice, Composed for Ping Chong's AM/PM View No.2; Solo Voice, Synthesizer Paris; Color, Sound, 26 Minutes, 1", 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Conceived and performed by Meredith Monk and Ping Chong. Produced and Directed by Mark Lowry and Kathryn Escher; made in cooperation with the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and KTCA-TV. Music by Meredith Monk. PARIS was first performed in 1972, the first part of THE TRAVELOGUE SERIES, a musical theater piece on journeys imaginary and real, to places with a unique and formative role in history and our consciousness. PARIS is an evocation of place; the ambiance, inhabitants, and mood of a location. KTCA-TV received the Corporation for Public Broadcasting First Place for Performance Programming for PARIS. The video received an Honorable Mention in the 26th Annual American Film Festival sponsored by the Educational Film Library Association, and was also selected for screening at the International Public Television conference in Belgium
Specimen Days; 14 Voices, Piano, 2 electric Organs Specimen Days: a civil war opera; 15 Performers, performances The Public Theater, NYC; Festival d'Automne, Paris, France; Theatre National, Strasbourg, France; Teatro Due, Parma, Italy Music Concert with Film; 8 Performers, performances The Space at City Center, NYC; Washington Hall Performance Gallery, Seattle, Washington; Western Washington University, Washington; Portland Center of the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon; San Francisco Symphony at the Galleria, San Francisco, CA; University of California, San Diego, CA; Musikhochschule, Cologne, Germany; Almeida Festival, Jerusalem, Israel; Duke University, Durham, NC; Northeastern University, Boston
Ellis Island; Black and White and Color, Sound, 28 Minutes, 35mm, 1", 3/4" and 1/2" videotape. Directed by Meredith Monk, Produced and Co-directed by Bob Rosen, Camera by Jerry Pantzer. Music by Meredith Monk. A film about the experience of immigrants entering America at the turn of the century, ELLIS ISLAND was awarded the CINE Golden Eagle, special Jury Prize from the Atlanta and San Francisco Film and Video Festivals Silver Lake with Dolmen Music, "Soundings" Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, Illinois; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Turtle Dream (Waltz): 4 Voices, 2 Electric Organs
Vessel:an opera epic (Berlin version, revival); for eighty performers. In West Berlin at three locations: S.O. 36, Schaub¸hne Hallesches Tor, and Anhalter Bahnhof. 16 Millimeter Earrings; Color, Sound, 25 Minutes, 16mm. Produced, directed and photographed by Robert Withers. Conceived and performed by Meredith Monk; originally performed in 1966. The film received a Merit Award at The Dance Film Festival in New York City, 1980
Songs from the Hill/Tablet (Wergo Records); 4 Voices, Piano Four hands, 2 soprano recorders Recent Ruins; 14 Voices, Tape, Cello.
Venice/Milan; 15 Voices, Piano Four-Hands Songs from the Hill; Unaccompanied Solo Voice Tablet; 4 Voices, Piano Four-Hands, 2 Soprano Recorders The Travelogue Series: Paris/Venice-Milan/Chacon; In collaboration with Ping Chong 30 Performers, performances The Roundabout Theater, NYC; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; The Sigma Festival, Bordeaux, France; Oberlin College, Ohio; Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; St. Peter's Church, NYC; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; Joyce Theater, NY
Anthology and Small Scroll; Solo Voice, Piano, Soprano Recorder
Chacon; 25 Voices, Piano, Percussion
Anthology and Small Scroll; 9 performers, performances The Mickery Theater, Amsterdam; Goddard College, Vermont; Center of Theater Research, Milan, Italy; Teatro Rondo di Bacco, Florence, Italy
Biography; solo voice, piano. Paris; solo piano Our Lady of Late; Solo Voice and Wine Glass
Plainsong for Billís Bojo; Electric Organ
Needle-Brain Lloyd and the Systems Kid: a live movie; 150 Voices, Electric Organ, Guitar, Flute Needle-Brain Lloyd and the Systems Kid: a live movie; for one hundred fifty performers. American Dance Festival, in four sites at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Tour 4: Organ; for sixty performers. Douglas College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Tour 5: Glass; for fifty performers. Nazareth College, Rochester, New York. Tour 6: Gym; for twelve performers. Auburn Community College, Auburn, New York, Buffalo. Tour 7: Factory; for fifteen performers. State University of New York, Buffalo.
Tour: Dedicated to Dinosaurs; for sixty-five performers. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Tour 2: Barbershop; for sixty-five performers. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Tour 3 Lounge; for fifty performers. Alfred University, Alfred, New York.
Blueprint (4); for two performers. The House Loft, New York Blueprint (5); for eight performers. The House Loft and Julius Tobias Studio, New York Co-op; for thirty performers. Loeb Student Center, New York
Blueprint: Overload/Blueprint (2); Solo Voice with Echoplex and Tape Dying Swan with Sunglasses; Solo Voice with Echoplex and Tape Overload; for five performers. Expo í67, Montreal Overload/Blueprint 2; for five performers. In two parts; Part I: installation Judson Gallery; Part II: performance Judson Memorial Church
Music: original tape collage; The Gate Theater, New York
16 Millimeter Earrings; Black and White and Color, Silent, 7 minutes, 16mm. Directed by Meredith Monk. Camera by Kenneth Van Sickle
Cartoon; for seven performers. Judson Memorial Church, New York. Rel‚che; in collaboration with Dick Higgins; for six performers. Music: Eric Satie. Judson Hall, New York. Blackboard; solo. Judson Hall, New York. Radar; for two performers. Judson Hall, New York.
Diploid; for two performers. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, New York. Armís Length; for six performers. Music: original sound collage. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. Cowell Suite; solo. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. Break; solo, original tape collage. Washington Square Galleries, New York.
Vibrato; for four performers. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. Resonance; solo. Music: Meredith Monk solo voice. Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.
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