Composition Catalog
1990-1999

1970- 1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000's



DATE WRITTEN
COMPOSITION
FIRST PERFORMANCE
1990

The Janice Project
Scored poetry reading
A Returning
17
Peace A
St.John
Phoenix
We Were
Karora
Talk Show
Speak

Unison Center, New Paltz, NY
   Janice King, poetry
   Baikida Carroll, trumpet
   Marilyn Crispell, piano
   Arto Tuncboyaci, percussion
   Ted Orr, programmer
1990 The Hill
Radio Commercial
  
1991 Pushing Up Sky concerto for 21 piece orchestra
1992 Tender Light on Weathered Wood
For the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
    Baikida Carroll, trumpet
    Rory Block, guitars
    Sredni Vollmer, harmonica
    Vinnie Martucci, piano & synthesizer
Cast: JoBeth Williams, Pat Hingle & James Morrison
1992 The Illusion
A conceptualized percussion score played by the actors;
For The Illusion,
a play by Pierre Corneille
River Arts Festival Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, NY
   
Michael Cristofer,director

1993

Music for Legacies
A play by Kermit Frasier
Legacies
I Thought You Knew
Mojo Man
I'm Going to Heaven
I Didn't Know
The Scarlet Curtain

Asolo Theatre Company, Sarasota, FL
   Baikida Carroll, trumpet, synthesizer, vocals
    Vinnie Martucci, piano & synthesizer

1993

Music for:
King Lear
A play by William Shakespeare
Procession
The Fool
Cordelia
Lear
A Distant Mountain
Druid
The First Tradition
Hovel
Gonerit's Camp
Albanie Gonerit's Entrance
Gloucester's Exit
Retreat
Cornwall's Entrance
Lear's Exit
From the Hunt
Lear's Court Entrance
Lear's Royalty
Herald Atrium
Edgar's Return

Asolo Theatre Company, Sarasota, FL
   Megs Booker, director
   Baikida Carroll, trumpet, drums, percussion & vocals
   Vinnie Martucci, synthesizer, piano & vocals
   Danielle Woerner, soprano vocals
   Steven Silverstein, kaval, cornets, flutes, shakuhachi & serpent
Cast: starring Jerome Kilty & Charles Weldon
   
1993 Music for
Miss Julie
A play by August Strindberg
Miss Julie
Coupling
(Suite in 4 Movements)
The Blue Barn
Soon
At the Break of day
Silent Pictures
Midsummernight
Imported News
Against Your Warmth
Tridy Bawdy
Epilogue
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   Elizabeth Jones, violin & viola
   Larry Packer, violin
   Kurt W. Coble, violin
   Erica Pickhardt, cello
   Vinnie Martucci, piano
   Baikida Carroll, synthesizer
Cast: including Donna Murphy, Kim Cattrall and Peter Francis James
   
1993 Blood Wolf  
1993 Sometimes Fallible  
1994 Score for
Jewels in the Test Tube
A television movie
Dr. Jordan
Labor
As a Child
Projects
Blue Hill Hang
L.B.J.
Upward Bound
Black College
M.I.T.
Corridor
McNair
Grad
Paris
Wedding
Empty
On the Move
Last Step
The Blue Gel
Alone in the Lab
Women in Science series, WGBH-TV, Boston
   Yvonne Smith, producer & director
   Baikida Carroll, synthesizer & percussion
    Vinnie Martucci, piano & synthesizer
Cast: starring Dr. Linda Jordan
   
1994 Dreaming  
1994 Coup  
1994 Buckdance  
1994 Goodbye to Much  
1994 Kiss Me Forever  
1994 Labyrinth  
1995 Music for
Having Our Say
A play by Emily Mann
CAB
Reflection
Jim Crow
Sunday Best
Lynched
Having Our Say Theme
The Bear
Our Say
We're Having Our Say
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   Baikida Carroll, flugelhorn & synthesizer
   Rene Bailey, vocals
   Eddie Xiques, woodwinds
   Steve Rust, bass
   Peter OÍBrien, drums
Cast: including Mary Alice & Gloria Foster
1995

Door of the Cage
(Cd)

 

Door of the Cage (CD), Soul Note Records
   Baikida Carroll, trumpet & flugelhorn
    Erica Lindsay, tenor sax
    Steve Adegoke Colson, piano
    Santi Debriano, bass
    Pheeroan ak Laff, drums
1995 Gazelles  
1995 Pepsi  
1995 Langour  
1995 Birded  
1995 Desolate  
1996 Music for
A Doll's House
A play by Henrik Ibsen
Open Doll House
Emily's Tarantella
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   Jay Ungar, violin
   Larry Packer, violin
   Warren Bernhardt, piano
   Baikida Carroll, synthesizer
1996 Music for
The Mai
A play by Marina Carr
Jouer
Robert's Piece
Screech
Rebach
Air Dance
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   Susan Seligman, cello
   Cast: including James Morrison & Myra Carter
1996 Music for
Greensboro: A Requiem
Requiem for the Dark Horse
(for Julius Hemphill and Arleen Cooper)
A play by Emily Mann
China Grove
Interrogation
5 Skulls
The Inner Circle
Hymn
Other People's Business
Mordechai
The Clansmen
Words
Not That I Recall
Bucket of
Graveside
The Clansmen
Elegy
Greensboro

McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   
Mark Wing-Davie, director
   
Vinnie Martucci, synthesizer
   Jeff Siegel, drums
   Sam Furnace, soprano saxophone
   Ron Finck, alto saxophone
   Ed Summerlin, tenor saxophone
   Ed Xiques, baritone saxophone
   Tomas Ulrich, cello
1996 Might....Might Not  
1996 Marionettes on a High Wire  
1996 GriotÍs Last Dance
(for Don Cherry)
 
1996 Ebullient Secrets  
1996 Thrill a Minute  
1996 Sport  
1996 Nock Down Under  
1997 Music for
Betrayal
A play by Harold Pinter
Betrayal Theme
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   Full orchestra
   Baikida Carroll, trumpet & keyboard
1997 Music for
The House of Bernarda Alba
A play by Federico Garcia Lorca
Fantastico
Twilight's Liquid Sorrow
Los Hijas
La Ligadura Song
The Reaper's Song
Little Lamb
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   David Sancious, classical guitar
   Gregory Dinger, classical guitar
   Richard Udell, flamenco guitar
   Marina Ahmad Alam, vocals
Cast: starring Helen Carey
1997 An Abstract language of Desire  
1997 Yet the Tears Flow  
1997 Velma  
1997 Glass  
1997 Drone  
1997 Flip  
1997 02B20  
1997 Pop  
1997 Somewhere Beyond Bone and Flesh  
1997 Xin Omi  
1998 Music for
Safe as Houses
A play by Richard Greenberg
Safe as Houses Theme
Soft Pressure
Dark and Safe
Waiting to Wait

McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
   Emily Mann, director
   Full orchestra
   Baikida Carroll, trumpet & keyboard
   Vinnie Martucci, piano
Cast: including Michael Learned, David Margulies, Frederick Weller &
1998 The Acrobatic Truth  
1998 Loud Apricots  
1998 To Balance Stone  
1998 Back Scratching Parlor  
1998 Buttah  
1998 Flamboye Vision Festival Orensanz Art Center, NYC
   The Baikida Carroll Quartet
    Baikida Carroll - trumpet, flugelhorn
    Erica Lindsay - tenor sax
    Reggie Workman - acoustic bass
   Pheeroan akLaff - drums
1998 Too Many Tears for Such a Sweetheart
(for Jade)
   same as above
1999 Chez Duke ASCAP / IAJE Convention Jan. 13, 2000
   The United States Air Force Big Band
   "Airmen of Note"
   Conducted by Baikida Carroll
   
1999 Haughty Tots  
1999 Untitled Ballad  
1999 Jungle Seeds  

 

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