Non Sequitur Music

Music of Lesley Sommer

Lesley Sommer


Biography

Composer Lesley Sommer was born in Eugene, OR, in 1967. She received her DM from Indiana University where her primary teachers were Frederick Fox and Eugene O'Brien. In 1997 she joined the faculty of Western Washington University, where she is now an associate professor and coordinator of music theory. Sommer's works have been performed at Midwest Composers Symposiums, Friends of Rain, the NOW Music Festival, the New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green, MusicLink, the SEAMUS National Conference, the KEAMS Festival of Elecrto-Acoustic Music, Composers, Inc., SCI, and at concerts and readings sponsored by the American Composers Forum. Sommer has received awards and commissions from ASCAP, the Margaret Blackburn Composition Prize, and the Whatcom Symphony, among others. An avid gardener, Sommer sometimes creates her music through the subtle interlocking of diverse organic processes.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Orchestral Music

The Garden of Earthly Delights
Rental: $100.00; Purchase: $200.00
2005, 9 minutes
Chamber Orchestra (1111 111 1perc, timp, piano, strings)

Overtures
Rental: $150.00; Purchase: $300.00
1998, 5 minutes (Part I of Imaginary Opera Music)
Orchestra: 3233 4331 pno, 2 perc, strings

Recitative and Arias
Rental: $250.00; Purchase: $500.00
1999, 8 minutes (Part II of Imaginary Opera Music)
Orchestra: 3233 4331 pno, 2 perc, strings

Imaginary Opera Music
Rental: $350.00; Purchase: $700.00
1998-1999, 13 minutes (2 movements)
Orchestra: 3233 4331 pno, 2 perc, strings

The Bawds of Euphony
Rental: $350.00; Purchase: $700.00
1992, 12 minutes
Orchestra: 3333 4331 pno, harp, 3 perc, strings
audio available

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Music for Mixed Chamber Ensembles

Scherzo and Trio
Rental: $50.00; Purchase: $75.00
2003, 7 minutes
violin, cello, Bb clarinet, piano

Transparent Landscapes
Rental: $85.00; Purchase: $100.00
1997, 17 minutes (4 movements)
clarinet, percussion, harp, piano, cello

Luna Silenti
Rental: $60.00; Purchase: $75.00
1993, 12 minutes
piano quintet

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Piano Music

Complete Music for Solo Piano: 2000-2008
(Includes: Five Pieces on Poems by Robert Frost, Just a Moment, Nocturne, and Five Reflections on a Nocturne)
Purchase: $25.00
2000-2008
piano

Five Reflections on a Nocturne
Purchase: $10.00
2008, 5 minutes
piano

Nocturne
Purchase: $5.00
2007, 4 minutes
piano

Just a Moment
Purchase: $5.00
2007, 3 minutes
piano

Five Pieces on Poems by Robert Frost
Purchase: $10.00
2000, 10 minutes (5 movements)
piano

Essay
Purchase: $5.00
2000, 1 minute, 30 seconds
piano and percussion

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String Music

String Quartet No. 2: "The Revenant"
Rental: $75.00; Purchase: $100.00
2000, 25 minutes (4 movements)
string quartet

Luna Silenti
Rental: $60.00; Purchase: $75.00
1993, 12 minutes
piano quintet

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Music for Winds

In The Elegy Season
Purchase: $45.00
1991, 6 minutes (2 movements)
flute trio

Inflections and Innuendoes
Rental: $95.00; Purchase: $125.00
1994, 9 minutes (4 movements)
9 flutes
audio available audio available

The Incubus
Purchase: $50.00
1991, 8 minutes
trombone quartet

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Percussion Music

Essay
Purchase: $5.00
2000, 1 minute, 30 seconds
piano and percussion


Vocal Music

Five Songs on Texts by William Shakespeare
Purchase: $35.00
2005, 19 minutes
baritone, piano

Song Cycle (in seven movements)
Purchase: $30.00
2002, 15 minutes
high soprano, Bb clarinet, percussion, piano

I Told You So
Purchase: $40.00
1987, 4 minutes, 30 seconds
alto voice, flute, double bass

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