Evan's Music

Video Links

• PBS Video documentary about Does Your House Have Lions? from their Creative Campus series (10 minutes)

For more info, please go to http://video.whyy.org/video/1227602235/

• Philly Complaint Choir documentary (6 minutes):

Audio

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Excerpts from Does Your House Have Lions?, jazz/funk opera based on the Sonia Sanchez memoir in the form of 59 poems:

• Brother – Male R&B vocal, funk band and orchestra
• Sister – Female jazz ballad vocal, rhythm section and orchestra

Glacier Blue is a concerto for violin accompanied by a big jazz band.  It was a Continental Harmony commission for the Juneau (Alaska) Jazz & Classics Festival 2000 featuring violinist Linda Rosenthal.

• Woof (jazz)
• Chorale (Strings)
• Chorale (Horns)
• Dogness (jazz/funk)
• Glacier Blue – Glacier (Movement 1) [Violin Concerto with Big Band]
• Glacier Blue – Funk (Movement 2)
• Glacier Blue – Blue (Movement 3)
• Glacier Blue – Stomp (Movement 4)
• Diane Monroe performing "Funk" from Glacier Blue
• young violinist Sasha Bota performing "Stomp" in Romania with McNeese State U band

• Nepenthe – performed by the Del'Arte Woodwind Quintet

• Beat – for Bucket Drum Ensemble

• Wash Ur Hands demo R&B/Rap demo for educational campaign co-produced by Stevie Wonder

• Close Your Eyes (Bobby Rydell with Big Band)
• Here's That Rainy Day (Bobby Rydell with Orchestra)
• That's All (Bobby Rydell with Big Band)

• Small Circle Of Friends – TJM disco orchestra 1979
• Put Yourself In My Place – TJM disco orchestra 1979

Underground Movements is an 8 movement piece commissioned by River North Chicago dance Company and featuring members of the Chicago Childrens Choir.  Here are some excerpts:

• Awakening (1st Movement)
• Hope (6th Movement)
• Acceptance (7th Movement)
• Ascension (8th Movement)

The Hawk – choir and chamber orchestra piece based on a poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright.