In Front of My Eyes: An Obama Celebration For Soprano, Flute (Piccolo and Alto Flute), B flat Clarinet (Base Clarinet), Horn in F, B flat Trumpet, Trombone, Violin, Cello, Piano (Keyboard Synthesizer) , and Jazz Drum set (Marimba).
Commission: University of North Carolina - Department of Music, Ackland Art Museum, and the N.C. Arts Council
1st performance: Louise Toppin, Soprano and Stefan Litwin, conducting the New Music
Ensemble, November 13, 2010. Presented by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Music Department and Music on the Hill, Memorial Hall, UNC
Duration: 25 min, approx.
Publisher: T.J. Anderson Music Publishing, 2010
Echoes For oboe and bassoon. Commission: Pennsylvania State New Music
Performance Project, for Barry Kroeker and Daryl Durran. 1st performance: University Park, PA. Pennsylvania State University. April 6, 1988.
Duration: 10 min.
Publisher: Germany, Bote and Bock. 1991.
Aurelia, In Memoriam for solo violin. 1999
Dedication: To the memory of Aurelia Whittington Franklin
1st performance: National Humanities Center. April 9, 1999.
Eric Pritchard, violin
Duration: 1:35 min.
Publisher: Mss
In Memoriam Malcolm X Voice and orchestra. 1974. Text: Robert Hayden. Commission: The Symphony of the New World (NY) for Betty Allen. 1st perfromance:
N.Y. City, Lincoln Center; Symphony of the New World; Leon Thompson, conductor, Betty Allen, Mezzo soprano
Duration: 10 min.
Publisher: N.Y: Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1974.
Chamber Concerto (Remembrances) Commission: Cleveland State University for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony; Edwin London, Music Director. 1st performance:
Cleveland, OH. Oct. 30, 1988.
Duration: 14 min.
Recording Albany (Troy 303). 1998
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Edwin London, Music Director and Conductor
Publisher: N.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc.
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A Musical Kaddish "In Sea" for John Zimarowski for soprano and piano.
1995. Text: Mark L. Belletini.
Dedication: Louise Toppin
Written for The Aids Quilt Songbook
1st performance: Durham, N.C., Duke University, November 12, 1995.
Louise Toppin, soprano; John O'Brien, pianist.
Duration: 8 min., 15 sec.
Publisher: N.Y. American Composers' Alliance.
Messages, A Creole Fantasy . Orchestra. 1979. Dedication: To the family of Ila Marshall and David De Witt Turpeau.
Duration: 14 min.
1st performance: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Robert Shaw, Conductor. 1980.
Published: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Passacaglia and Blues for piano Dedication: Robert and Joyce Corrigan. 1st performance: Winchester, MA, Aki Shimazu Gifford, piano. June 10, 1990.
Duration: 10 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc.
Re-Creation Three readers, dancer, violin, cello, trumpet, alto saxophone, piano, and drums. Sign language, with gestures reflected in dance. 1978. Text: Leon Forrest; Commission: Richard Hunt. 1st performance: Chicago, IL, T.J. Anderson, Conductor. 1978.
Duration: 30 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1978.
Shouts (forty improvisations for Eva-Maria) for oboe, violin, cello, and piano. 1997.
Commission: Eva-Maria Worthington
1st performance: Arts Club, Chicago, Nov.1, 1997. Robert Morgan, oboe; Elliott Golub, violin; Barbara Haffner, cello; Andrea Swan, piano
Duration: 14 min.
Publisher: T.J. Anderson Music Publishing (Subito Music Corp, Distributor)
Spirituals Orchestra, jazz quartet, chorus, children's choir, tenor, and narrator. 1979. Commission: Union United Methodist Church, Boston, MA Text: Robert Hayden;
Visuals: Stanley Madeja. 1st performance: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw,
Conductor; William Brown, Soloist. 1982. For dedication of the Martin Luther King , Jr.
Center for Social Change.
Duration: 35 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1979.
Sunstar for solo trumpet and cassette recorder.
Dedication: Dizzy Gillespie.
Duration: 10 min., 15 sec.
1st performance: May, 1994. Columbus, Ohio State
University; Richard Burkart, tpt; Peter Tender, electronics
Publisher: N.Y. Composers’ Facsimile Edition, 1984
This House. Male Glee Club, four chromatic pitch pipes. 1971. Dedication: Wendell Whalum and the Morehouse College Glee Club.
1st performance: Atlanta, GA Morehouse College Glee Club, Wendell Whalum, Conductor. 1972.
Duration: 5 min., 30 sec. Publisher: N.Y.: Composers' Facsimile Edition, 1978.
Thomas Jefferson's Orbiting Minstrels and Contraband. A 21st Century celebration of
19th Century form. String quartet, woodwind quintet, jazz sextet, dancer, soprano,
computer, visuals, and keyboard synthesizer.
Text: Stephen Soreff; Poem: T.J. Anderson III.; Spoken Text and Scientific Adviser:
Herbert Friedman; Visuals: Stanley Madeja; Sculptures: Richard Hunt; Electronic tape:
Erik Lindgren. 1st performance: Feb. 12, 1986. DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University.
Steven Squires, Conductor; Lee Cloud, Musical Coordinator; Diane Ragains, soprano;
Danielle Jay, dancer; Geoffrey Madeja, technical director; Herbert Nelson, media consultant;
Dennis De Lap, graphic desighn; Donna Flanagan, production assistant; the Shanghai
String Quartet; 12 musicians, 3 technicians.
Duration: 1 hr., 35 min.
Publisher: N.Y : Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1984.
Variations on a Theme by Alban Berg Viola and piano. 1977. 1st performance: Cambridge,MA, Longy School of Music; Marcus Thompson, viola; Seth Carlin, piano. 1978.
Duration: 12 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1977.
Concerto For Two Violins and Chamber Orchestra Commission: Richard Hunt for Elliott Golub, Nisanne Graff, and Music of the Baroque;
Thomas Wikman, conductor. 1st performance: Chicago, Studio of Richard Hunt.
May 29, 1988. Elliott Golub, Nisanne Graff, violins: Music of the Baroque, Thomas
Wikman , conductor.
Duration: 13 1/2 min.
Publisher: N.Y. : American Composers' Edition, Inc.
Five Bagatelles for Oboe, Violin , and Harpsichord Harpsichord, oboe, and violin. 1963.
Dedication: Louise Clarkson. 1st performance: Norman, Oklahoma: Catherine Paulu, Oboe; Norman Paulu, Violin.; Leonard Klein,Harpsichord. 1963. Duration: 8 1/2 min
Publisher: N.Y. Composers' Facsimile Edition, 1963.
Shouts (forty improvisations for Eva-Maria) for oboe, violin, cello, and piano. 1997.
Commission: Eva-Maria Worthington
1st performance: Arts Club, Chicago, Nov.1, 1997. Robert Morgan, oboe; Elliott Golub, violin; Barbara Haffner, cello; Andrea Swan, piano
Duration: 14 min.
Publisher: T.J. Anderson Music Publishing (Subito Music Corp, Distributor)
Broke Baroque for violin and piano. 1996
Commission: James Dargan
1st performance: Atlanta, GA, National Black Music Caucus. 25th Anniversary
Celebration. A Musical Tribute to T.J. Anderson, March 7, 1997
James Dargan, violin; Terrance McKnight, piano.
Duration: 10 min.
Publisher: N.Y. American Composers' Alliance
Bridging and Branching . Flute and double bass
Commission: Richard Hunt in celebration of his 50th birthday, for Joseph Guastafeste.
1st performance: Chicago, IL. Studio of Richard Hunt. May, 1986. Lynn Leifer, flute;
Joseph Guastafeste, double bass.
Duration: 8 1/2 min.
Publisher: Germany, Bote and Bock. 1987.
Boogie Woogie Fantasy (for solo piano). 1997
Dedication: Leon Forrest
1st performance: 70th Birthday concert, Duke University. Sept.11, 1998. Thomas Warburton, piano.
Duration: 14:00 min.
Publisher: N.Y., American Composers Edition.
Ancestral Voices for Bass Voice and Piano. Dedication: Nicholas Isherwood.
Text: Leon Forrest. 1st performance: Festival "Musica", Strasbourg, France; Nicholas
Isherwood, bass; Eric Watson, piano. September 21, 1990.
Duration: 8 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc.
Six Pieces for Clarinet and chamber Orchestra Clarinet and chamber orchestra. 1962.
Dedication: Earl Thomas and the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra. 1st performance: Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra: Guy Fraser Harrison,
Conductor; Earl Thomas, soloist. 1962.
Duration: 13 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1966.
Fragments for improvised piano and large orchestra (A J.S. Bach/T.S. Monk Fantasy. 2006
Commission: University of Iowa School of Music on its 100th Anniversary
1st performance: Iowa City, University of Iowa, October, 2006: William L. Jones, conductor; Donal Fox, piano
Duration: 20:00
Publisher: T.J. Anderson Music Publishing (Subito Music Corp., distributor)
Words My Mother Taught Me, A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano. 2000
Poems: Anita Turpeau Anderson
Dedication: Pamela L. Kelly
1st performance: San Diego. July 2, 2000
Pamela L. Kelly, soprano
Duration: 12:00 min.
Publisher: N.Y. , American Composers Edition
What Ever Happened to the Big Bands? Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, and Trombone.
1991. Dedication: Fletcher Henderson 1st performance: Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina. William Bish, alto saxophone; James E. Ketch, trumpet; Keith Jackson,
trombone. March 15, 1992.
Duration: 12 1/2 min.
Publisher: Germany, Bote and Bock.
What Time Is It? Boys' choir and jazz orchestra. Commission: ASCAP Foundation
and Meet the Composer, Inc. to honor a great American, Harold Arlen.
Text: T.J. Anderson. 1st performance: New York, NY, Cooper Union; Harlem Boys'
Choir and the American Jazz Orchestra; T.J. Anderson, conductor. Dec. 1, 1986.
Duration: 15 1/2 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: American Composers' Edition.
Watermelon Revisited for piano. 2001.
Commission: Guy Livingston
Performed by Guy Livingston, piano, and recorded Don’t Panic! 60 seconds for piano.
(Wergo-6649-2) 2001
Duration: 60 sec.
Rights with Guy Livingston.
Walker , a chamber opera ; commissioned by the Boston Athenaeum with a
libretto by Derek Walcott. For soprano, contralto, tenor, 2 baritone voices and
bass; Violin, viola, flute+ piccolo, clarinet + bass clarinet, alto saxophone,
trumpet, trombone, piano, and percussion station. 1992.
1st performance: Concert version with 2 pianos: Boston, MA., Boston Athenaeum
December, 9, 1993. Directed by Donna Roll. Featuring Robert Honeysucker, Andrea Bradford, Frank W. Ragsdale, Elisabeth F. Borg, Matthew Malloy, & Vincent
Stringer. Pianists: Thomas Enman, Lisa Harer de Calvo.
Duration: 1 hr., 15 min.
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum
Variations on a Theme by M.B. Tolson. . Cantata: soprano, violin, cello, alto sax
trumpet, trombone, piano. 1969. Dedication: Lois Anderson.
1st performance: Bernadine Oliphint, soprano; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Players; T.J. Anderson, conductor. 1970.
Duration: 15 min.
Publisher: N.Y.: Composers' Facsimile Edition. 1969. Recording: Nonesuch H 71303. The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Weisberg, Conductor.: Jan De Gaetani, mezzo soprano. 1974.
The Suit (for a cappella male choir). 1998
Words: Philip Levine
Commission: Chanticleer
1st performance: San Francisco, Calif. March 4 & 7, 1999. Craig Johnson, Artistic Director
Duration: 8:00 min.
Publisher: N.Y. American Composers Edition
Aurelia, In Memoriam for solo violin. 1999
Dedication: To the memory of Aurelia Whittington Franklin
1st performance: National Humanities Center. April 9, 1999.
Eric Pritchard, violin
Duration: 1:35 min.
Publisher: Mss
Spirit songs for cello and piano. 1993.
Commission: Yo Yo Ma
Duration: 19 min., 30 sec.
Publisher: N.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc.
1st performance: Durham, NC. Mallarme Chamber Players, January 18, 2004 Timothy Holley, cello; Thomas Warburton, piano.
