Daniel Sonenberg – works list
Opera
The Summer King – An Opera on the life of Josh Gibson (2011)
Music by Daniel Sonenberg
Libretto by Daniel Sonenberg and Daniel Nester
Duration: 138 minutes
Instrumentation: piano-vocal, various orchestrations of scenes exist; full orchestration pending
The Summer King Suite (2003)
Music by Daniel Sonenberg
Libretto by Daniel Nester
Duration: 20 minutes
Note: With the exception of one aria, this is a wholly different work than The Summer King.
Instrumentation: piano-vocal
Orchestral and Large Ensemble
What Comes After K (2012)
For chamber orchestra
Duration: 5 minutes
Golden Smash Hits (2007)
For Wind Ensemble
Duration: 4 minutes
Seconds Count (1994)
For orchestra
Duration: 10 minutes
Somniloquy (1992)
For orchestra
Duration: 10 minutes
Chamber
Delve (2013)
For the Da Capo Chamber Players.
For flute, clarinet (doubling on bass clarinet), violin, cello and piano.
Grab That! (2012)
Based on the dance forms 70's funk and 90's trip-hop.
For oboe, violin, cello and piano.
Duration: 6 minutes
Takes One to Know One (2012)
For bass clarinet, cello, double bass, and floor tom and bass drum
Duration: 8 minutes
41 Fathead (2011)
For piano and percussion
Duration: 11 minutes
Seven Jarring Dances for Clarinet(s) and Steel-String Guitar (2011)
For clarinet in A, Bb, bass in Bb and piccolo in Eb (1 player), and Steel-string guitar
Duration: 15 minutes
Invocation (2010)
For solo trumpet
Duration: 5 minutes
Elegy for Alice (2009)
For woodwind quintet
Duration: 5 minutes
Eating Babies (2009)
For trumpet, piano, and recorded audio
Duration: 10 minutes
The Sirens of Sombor (2008)
For string quartet
Duration: 10 minutes
F Major Movement (2007)
For string quartet
Duration: 13 minutes
Whistlesparks (2007)
For flute and harp
Duration: 9 minutes
Mejdoub (1998, rev. 2005)
For clarinet, electric guitar, accordion, piano and drum set
Duration: 10 minutes
Maybe They’re a Mouse! (1998)
For flute and piano
Duration: 5 minutes
Six Small Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1997)
For Bb clarinet and piano
Duration: 12 minutes
Quintet for Bassoon and String Quartet (1996, first movement rev. 2007)
For bassoon and string quartet
Duration: 20 minutes (in three movements)
A Wedding March (1997)
For string quartet
Duration: 10 minutes
Vocal
Detuned Radio: Ecstatic Reminiscence and Arguments about Music (2010)
5-song cycle for soprano and piano
Duration: 15 minutes
Texts by Elliott Schwartz, Michael Kupietz, Andy Goldstein, Daron Hagen, and Lester Bangs
“Clear View” (2003)
song for soprano and piano
Duration: 3 minutes
Text by Katherine de Lorraine
“My Cat Major” (2003)
song for mezzo soprano and piano
Duration: 2 minutes
Text by Stevie Smith
“Not Waving but Drowning” (2003)
song for tenor and piano
Duration: 3 minutes
Text by Stevie Smith
“If I Should Learn” (2003)
song for soprano and piano
Duration: 4 minutes
Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Garum” (2003)
song for bass voice and piano
Duration: 2 minutes
Text by M.F.K. Fisher
The Art of Eating: 6 Songs by Women Writers about Food (2001)
6-song cycle for soprano and piano
Duration: 22 minutes
Texts by M.F.K. Fischer, Carla Drysdale, Alison Jarvis and Colette Inez
Baseball Songs (1999)
5 song cycle for high lyric baritone and piano
Duration: 14 minutes
Texts by Ed Lynch, Phil Rizzuto, Dan Quisenberry, and Gary Gildner
Theatre
Songs from Broken Morning (2003)
6 songs for male and female voices (all solo except for the final duet) and piano
Duration: 12 minutes
Texts by Mark Campbell
Originally composed for Chiori Miyagawa’s play, Broken Morning
Song and incidental music for Woman Killer (2001)
1 song “Some Years from Now” for guitar and voice and assorted electronic incidental music
Duration: 3 minutes
Text by Mark Campbell
Originally composed for Chiori Miyagawa’s play, Woman Killer
Songs from Awakening (2000)
3 songs for male and female voices (all solo) and piano
Duration: 6 minutes
Texts by Mark Campbell
Originally composed for Chiori Miyagawa’s play, Awakening