First Piano Piece
First performance Richard Trythall, American Academy, Rome
Alvin Curran
13.12.1938, Providence
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Information: www.alvincurran.com
source & date: oxfordmusiconline (nov 2016)
Piano solo
Tango No.1
Duration 4'. On the theme from Meme Perlini's theater work, Tarzan. First performance Berlin
Songs on One, Two, Three, Four or More Notes, solo performance on piano, voice and synthesizer
For Cornelius
[duration 14-18']; revised version 1993 [duration 20'; First performance Ursula Oppens.]
tango no.1
Electric Rags I, solo performance for midi grand piano
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Cologne
Last Acts of Julian Beck
Sections: Julian Steps Out for a Cappuccino, He Meets His Maker on Upper Broadway, Walks Into Paradise Now. Duration 21'. First performance Frederic Rzewski, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne
Hope Street Tunnel Blues I-III
1983-1986; duration of part II 16', part III 16'. UA: Yvar Mikhashoff
Little pearls
First performance Yvar Mikhashoff, Buffalo
Schtetl Variations
Duration 39'. First performance Yvar Mikhashoff.
Schtetl Settings a/k/a Eleven Schtetl Settings
First performance Yvar Mikhashoff
Bottled Aires (for keyboard or 2 Instruments)
Beatles Arrangements
7'; 1989-1990; First performance Aki Takahashi
Inner Cities 1
First performance Alvin Curran, Hessischer Rundfunk. Duration 29'
Inner Cities 2
First performance Alvin Curran, Hessischer Rundfunk. Duration 26'
Endangered Species (ex Inner Cities 5) for piano
1996
Jon's Nancy for any 4 instruments or solo piano
Inner Cities 3 (for piano or toy piano)
First performance Daan Vandewalle, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, April 2003. Duration 7'.
Inner Cities 5
First performance Daan Vandewalle, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, April 2003. Duration 3'
Inner Cities 6-7
First performance Jed Distler, Mills College, February 1999. Duration 36'
Inner Cities 8
First performance Eve Egoyan, Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, March 2001. Duration 43'
Inner Cities 9
First performance Reinier van Houdt, Rotterdam 11/2001. Duration 28'
Inner Cities 7.5
First performance Daan Vandewalle, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, April 2003. Duration 3'
Inner Cities 4
in memoriam Lou Harrison. First performance Daan Vandewalle, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, April 2003. Duration 20'
Inner Cities 11 (Aglio Oglio Peperoncini Blues)
2002-2003, for Frederic Rzewski. First performance Daan Vandewalle, April 5, 2003, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes. Duration 15'.
Inner Cities 10
First performance Daan Vandewalle, April 5, 2003, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes. Duration 51'
Arnold Meets Steve at the Five Spot
Inner Cities 13
adapted and expanded from Saltando in Padella, for piano. Duration 25'. First performance Daan Vandewalle, Rimini, July 2007
Inner Cities 12
in memory of Helen Carter. Duration 30'. First performance Daan Vandewalle, Flanders Festival, Brussels, September 2005.
E Poi...
Commissioned by the Network for New Music Ensemble on the occasion of Elliot Carter's 100th birthday. Duration 9'. First performance Marilyn Nonken, Philadelphia, January 2008.
Octogramms for any instruments
The Brooklyne bridge speaks Yiddish (keyboard and sampler)
Play as written
on the occasion of Walter Zimmermann's 60th birthday. Duration 3-5'. First performance Berlin
Inner Cities 14
45'; UA: Daan Vandewalle, Den Bosch, November 2010.
Toss and find for pf & Tape
The Glass Octave
UA: Nicolas Horvath, Carnegie Hall, New York, January 2015.
Octogram 17.1
UA: Kathleen Supové, Trisha Brown memorial, New York, July 2017
Dead Beats
UA: Reinier van Houdt - piano, Den Haag, December 2018
Piano Concertos
Music for Every Occasion pf and chbr orch
First performance the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra with Alvin Curran. Denis Russel Davies, conductor, Minneapolis, 1980.
Piano Duos / Several Pianos
Era ora (2pf)
Duration 29'. First performance Ursula Oppens and Anthony Davis, New York.
No Category
Pian de Pian Piano
permanent sound installation