Triptych

  • 8:30
  • 2025
  • Bassoon, Clarinet in Bb, Flute, Horn in F, Oboe
Published by Monica Houghton Music Company - Request performance materials.
This quintet is comprised of three movements, the first of which was published previously as “All the Fools in Town.” The second movement begins in full alarm mode — at a gallop — while the last movement is deeply reflective.

All the Fools in Town

  • 3:00
  • 2024
  • Bassoon, Clarinet in Bb, Flute, Horn in F, Oboe
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Program Note The title of this piece comes from Mark Twain’s book Huckleberry Finn— “Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side, and ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?”

So Alone

  • 3:00
  • 2022
  • Flute
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So Alone is spun off from my earlier work ‘Pentimento’ which was commissioned by the Cleveland Chamber Collective in 2012. While on a camping trip in the Australian outback, where at night I heard the songs of the dingos, the haunting beauty of those voices

Four Seasons Gentlemen

  • 8:00
  • 2008
  • Flute, Piano, String Quartet
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Performances World Premiere: Cleveland Chamber Collective, Rocky River Chamber Music Society, Rocky River, Ohio, March 16, 2009 Program Note In the autumn of 2006 I enrolled in Mitzi Lai’s Chinese brush painting class at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and for several hours each Tuesday

Three Songs Without Words

  • 6:00
  • 2010
  • Flute, Guitar
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Performances Premiere: Mary Kay Ferguson, flute, and Don Better, guitar, Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio, February 20, 2011. Martha Somach, flute, Don Better, guitar, for the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio, May 1, 2011. Mary Kay Robinson and Don