Composition Catalog
2000's

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DATE WRITTEN
COMPOSITION
FIRST PERFORMANCE
2000 Marionettes on a High Wire
(CD)
Omni Tone Records Sep. 14 & 15, 2000
  Baikida Carroll, trumpet & flugelhorn
    Erica Lindsay, tenor sax
    Steve Adegoke Colson, piano
    Michael Formanek, bass
    Pheeroan ak Laff, drums  
2000 Down Under same as above
2001 Pilgrimage

Written for 4 Barotone saxes and drums
Hamiet Bluiett
James Carter
Patience Higgens
Alex Harding

2001 The Oedipus Plays
by Sophocles

Incantations
Pageant
Apollo
The Hunt
Prayer
Dirge
The Depths
Groove of The Furies
Peaceful
War God
Victory Cry
Inevitable Rights
Wise In Time
Language of the Tongue
Teiresias' Trance
The Pain
Oedipus's Ascension
Torons
Queen of Death
God of Victory
Hands of God
Closure

The Washington D.C. Shakespeare Festival
Directed by Michael Kahn
Starring: Avery Brooks, Earle Hyman and
Cynthia Martells

2002

Music for
Act Without Words

A play by Samuel Beckett

Rabid Eye Movement
Deferred Dearth
Dearth Reprise
Harmonic Conversations

The New York State University, New Paltz
Parker Black Box Theater

Directed by Jade King Carroll
2002

Music for Dancers
Elipsing Moon

The Vision Festival, NYC
The K.J. Holmes Constellation Ensemble
Dancers: K.J. Holmes, Angie Hauser-Robinson
Trumpets: Roy Cambell, Baikida Carroll

April 29 -
May 18
2003

Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekov
Adapted and Directed by Emily Mann for the McCarter Theatre

A. Uncle Vanya
(all written during April 2003)
1. Tea? (Open Act One)
2. Speckled Chicks
3. Speck Bridge
4. What Might Have Been (End Act One, Open Act Two)
5. VanyaÍs Alone
6. Are You Alone?
7. Sonya Alone
8. He says no (End Act two)
9. Time and Tension (Open Act three)
10. Yelena Alone
11. Yelena Pensive
12. Stillness (End Act Three /Open Act Four)
13. The Watchman's Song
14. Faded Horizons
15. House of Tears
16. Samovar
17. Just Blue

Starring: Amanda Plumber and William Biff McGuire
Recorded April 7,8,9,10, 2003
Tree House Studio Woodstock, NY
Engineer: David Sancious
Composer/Producer: Baikida Carroll
Ensemble: David Sancious- Grand Piano, Classical guitar, Mandolin Susan Seligman- Cello
Baikida Carroll - violin and viola samples

 

July - August
2003

The Oedipus Plays Athens Production 2003

Additional songs written for this production

1. Opening the Gates
2. The King's Flourish
3. Teiresias Arrives
4. TeiresiasÍ Curse
5. TeiresiasÍ Entrance
6. Not What He Was
7. Oedipus' Fears
8. The Body Of Haimon
9. Antigone In Chains
10. Bless Me Too
11. Creon's Entrance
12. JocastaÍs Flourish
13. JocastaÍs Ritual
14. Messenger Entrance
15. OedipusÍ Curse
16. OedipusÍ Possession
17. Oedipus' Ascension
18. Oedipus' Prayer
19. Pageant of Lament
20. PolyneicesÍ Entrance
21. Shepherd Entrance
22. Sisters' Exit
23. Stay or Move
24. Teiresias' Prophesy
25. The Body Of Haimon
26. Theseus Entrance
27. This Rough Stone
28. What Prophesy?
29. Whose Eyes Terrify

 

April
2008
River of Life

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