BUN-CHING LAM

Four Beckett Songs

Limited edition, 45 rpm phono record, published by the Kaldewey Press as part of an Artist Book, with etchings by the composer. Performed by Thomasa Eckert, soprano, and musicians of the New Performance Group, Seattle.

Item number LB-R-1; 45rpm phono record $10.00

Klang on 22132434141

Outstanding compositions for drumset solo. Eleven composers have accepted the opportunity to write solo pieces for Fritz Hauser's clearly defined drumset. Each work was created within an intensive dialogue between creator and perfomer. Composers include Bun-Ching Lam, Joey Baron, Warren Smith, Rob Kloet, Pauline Oliveros, Franz Koglmann, Stephan Grieder, John Cage, Pierre Favre, Robert Suter and Mani Planzer. (European Import)

E.O. 9066 on Tellus #26, Jewel Box

The composition's title refers to the Executive Order given by President Franklin Roosevelt calling for the internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War. The piece was originally composed for a dance choreographed by June Watanabe, reflecting her childhood experience in such a camp. Compilation also includes works by Anne LeBaron, Laetitia Sonami, Sussan Deihim, Catherine Jauniaux and Ikue Mori, Sapphire, Mary Ellen Childs and Michelle Kinney.

Item number COMP-CD-21; Compact disc $16.00

Rome Concert

Live recording of a concert at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Included are five chamber works ranging from solo piccolo to piano quintet. Performed by the composer with musicians from Italy.

Four Beckett Songs

Text, in English, is Samuel Beckett's Four Poems. Scored for soprano, violin, clarinet (Bb., Eb. & bass) and percussion. (9 minutes)

Klang

Composition for drumset solo commissioned by Fritz Hauser and recorded.on the album 22132434141.

Lü

Solo percussion. For a full gamut of percussion instruments ranging from wood and skin to metal. Hailed by the reknowned percussionist/teacher Raymond Des Roches as "...a piece that should be part of the contemporary percussion repertoire." (15 minutes)

Item number LB-S-1; Score $21.00

Three Dada Songs

For soprano, flute (alto flute, piccolo), cello and piano. Setting of early Dadaist Hugo Balls' sound poems; can be staged as a theatre piece. (10 minutes)

Item number LB-S-2; Score $16.00

Another Spring

For alto flute, cello and piano. (12 minutes)

Item number LB-S-3; Score $16.00

Bittersweet Music I

Composed for solo piccolo. (5 minutes)

Bun-Ching Lam

Born in Macao, Lam received a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego in 1981. She has studied with Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros and Bernard Rands. Recently awarded a Rome Prize, Lam has also been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer. Among her commissioned works are Sudden Thunder for the American Composers Orchestra, Last Spring for Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet, Impetus for Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and Klang for Swiss Percussionist Fritz Hauser.

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