Lance Hulme’s music is available through

Donemus Publishing BV

Catalogue

Opera

• “And the Sea Shall Give up its Dead” (45 min.)
  
  • (lib: after Thorton Wilder)
  • Solo: Sop (Mez)/T/B
  • Chor: SATB (solo)
  • Orch: Fl/Cl (Bs)/Tp/Tb/2 Perc/Pf/Va/Vc
  • Premiere: Aspen Music Festival Center for Opera Studies
• “December Night” (45 min.)
  • (lib: after Willa Cather)
  • Solo: S/Mez/T/B/
  • Chor: S/A

Orchestra

• Stealing Fire (8 min.)
  
  • Orch: 3/3(Eng Hn.)/3(Bs Cl)/3(Cbn)//4/3/3/1//3 Perc/Pf/Hp/8/8/6/4/3
  • Premiere: Pioneer Valley Symphony
  • Grand Prize, International Witold Lutoslawski Competition IV; 1st Prize, ASCAP/Nissim Award
  • “a cataclysmic dance” (New York Times)
• Stargazing (10 min.)
  
  • (soprano vocalese and orchestra)
  • Orch: 3/3(Eng Hn)/3(Bs Cl)/3(Cbn)//4/3/3/1//3 Perc/Hp/8/8/6/4/3
  • Premiere: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
• Sirens’ Song (15 min.)
  • (large orchestra)
  • Orch: 3/3(Eng Hn.)/3(Bs Cl)/3(Cbn)//4/3/3/1//5 Perc/Hp/8/8/6/4/3
  • Premiere: University of Oklahoma Symphony
• Threnody for the Victims of September 11, 2001 (8 min.)
  
  • Women’s chorus (4 parts), String Orchestra (Vn,Va,Vc)
  • Premiere: New Century Ensemble
  • CMS National Convention selection
  • “a moving and soothing performance”. (Classical Voice North Carolina)
• Un roseau pensant (17 min.)
  
  • 1/1(Eng Hn)/1(Bs Cl)/1//1/1/1/1//2 Perc/Pf/Hp/4/4/3/3/2
  • Premiere: Badische Staatskapelle
  • “with widely contrasting colors and hectic rhythmic motion” (Badische Neueste Nachrichten)
• The Good Morrow (8 min.)
  
  • (Orchestral song, text by J. Donne)
  • Baritone; Orch.: 2/2/2/1//1/0/0/0/Hp/6/6/4/2/1
  • Premiere: ESSO
  • “Hulme does this moving John Donne poem justice…” (Rochester Register)
• Lullaby (10 min.)
  • (Orchestral song, text by W.H. Auden)
  • Baritone; Orch.: Hp, Strings (6/6/4/2/1)
  • Premiere: Rochester, NY
  • “melismatic vocal lines woven into richly caricatured accompaniment” (Rheinpfalz Zeitung)

Wind Ensemble

• Leaps and Bounds (8 min.)
  • 4/4/Bs Cl/1/1/1/1/2/4/4/4/1/5 perc
  • Premiere: College Park, MD

Large Ensemble

• Flame Dances (in 3 movements; 23 min.)
  • Fl/Sop Sx/Va/3 Perc/2 Synth/Bs Guit (MIDI for keyboards file available)
  • Premiere: Badische Staatskapelle
  • “A musical spectacle… like a jam-session” (Rheinpfalz Zeitung)
• Flame Dance (10 min.)
  
  • Fl/Ob/Va/2 Perc/2 Synth/Bs Guit (MIDI files for keyboards file available)
  • Premiere: Karlsruhe, Germany
  • “…the gradual unfolding of a musical cell” (Rheinpfalz Zeitung)
• Ice Nine (8 min.)
  • Fl/Ob/Cl/Bn/Bs Tb/Perc (elec. drum)/Synth/Bs Guit
  • Premiere: New Haven, CT
  • “Hulme’s use of notated and improvisational techniques is impressive” (New Haven Courier)
• Octuor pour la fin du siécle (in 3 movements)
  
  • Fl (Picc)/Cl (Bass)/Hn/Bn (Cbn)/Pf/Vn/Va/Vc)
  • Premiere: Badische Staatskapelle
  • “much like the Schubert octet in scope and ambition” (Badische Neueste Nachrichten)
• Odyssey Allusions (in 3 movements)
  • Fl/Cl/Perc (1-2 players)/Pno/Vn/Vc
  • Premiere: New Century Ensemble
• Wildcat Scat (9 min.)
  
  • Saxophone orchestra (5 tutti, 4 soli, Sop, Alto, Ten, Bari, Bass)
  • Premiere: Würzburg, Germany
  • “A real rollercoaster.. Wow!” (Würzburger Zeitung)
• Songs of the Cynics (17 min.)
  
  • (Texts by Graves, Wright, Walkovski, Antoninius)
  • Duets for Sop, Mez; Fl/Ob/Cl/Bn/Hn/2 Perc/Pf/Vn/Va/Vc/Bs
  • Premiere: Badische Staatskapelle
  • “with humor and astonishing expressive contrasts” (Rheinpfalz Zeitung)
• Aldington Songs (10 min.)
  • (Texts by R. Aldington)
  • Mez, Fl/Cl (Bs Cl)/ Pf/Vib/Vn/Vc
  • Premiere: Aspen, CO
  • “passion and urgency expressed through dramatic melodic lines” (Pforzheimer Zeitung)

Chamber Music

• String Quartet No. 1 “Other Borders” (in 2 movements; 20 min.)
  • Premiere: Schönberg Quartet, Vienna, Austria
  • “A thoroughly elastic work of astonishing scope”(Rheinpfalz Zeitung)
• String Quartet No. 2 “Veronica’s Veil” (13 min.)
  
  • John Day Jackson Prize
  • Premiere: New Haven, CT
  • “the highlight…much like the impression left on a veil” (New Haven Courier)
• Opium Inspirations (in 3 movements; 23 min.)
  
  • Trios for Flute, Clarinet and Cello (separate or set)
  • Premiere: Stuttgart, Germany
  • “expressive gestures reminiscent of Debussy” (Badische Neueste Nachrichten)
• Reel to Real (in 3 movements; 22 min.)
  • violin and piano
  • Premiere: Greenville, SC
• Sax Attractor (in 3 movements; 12 min.)
  • soprano saxophone and piano
  • Premiere: Bejing, China
  • CMS Convention selection
• Astralis Sonata (in 3 movements; 10 min.)
  • flute and piano
  • Premiere: Atlanta, GA
• Hommages, Musings and Unbridled Ambition (in 3 movements)
  • Piano trio (Vn, Vc, Pno)
• Rocket Hocket (7 min.)
  • Duo for Tenor and Bass Trombone
  • Premiere: Baden-Baden
• Vanity Fanfare
  • Brass Quintet
• Ghost Dialogues (3 movements; 12 min.)
  • Duets for Trumpet and Tenor Saxophone (available from Subito Music)
  • Premiere: Minneapolis, MN
  • Grand Prize, International Trumpet Guild
• Manic Music (for 2 Maniacal Pianists) (6 min.)
  
  • Duo for 2 Pianos (2-4 players)
  • Premiere: Rochester, NY
  • CMS National Convention selection
  • “seems to demand a certain craziness, as cavalier as you can be while staying in step…” (Now Is The Time)
• Bandaloop Dances
  • Six etudes for piano solo (separate or set)
  • Premiere: Baden, Germany
  • “virtuoso…very effective musical material” (Badische Neueste Nachrichten)
• Reed Buster Rhapsody
  • 2 Tenor or 2 alto saxophones
  • Premiere: Greensboro, NC
• JethroZen
  • Solo flute and electric guitar (optional)
  • Premiere: Durham, NC

Voice and Piano

• Songs of the Cynics (17 min.)
  
  • (Texts by Graves, Wright, Walkovski, Antoninius)
  • Duets for Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano
  • Premiere: Rochester, NY
• The Good Morrow
  • (Text by J. Donne)
  • Premiere: Boston, MA
• Aldington Songs (10 min.)
  • (Texts by R. Aldington)
  • Premiere: Bad Königsburg, Germany
• Wine From These Grapes (17 min.)
  
  • (Texts by St. Vincent-Millay)
  • Premiere: Boston, MA
  • CMS National Convention selection
  • “a convincing cycle…directly accessible to the listener” (NATS Journal)
• Wayfaring Stranger (4 min.)
  • Premiere: Greensboro, NC
• Appalachian Advent (7 min.)
  • (Appalachian Christmas folksongs)
  • Premiere: Karlsruhe, Germany
• The Street Has Changed (8 min.)
  • (Texts by Randell Jarrell)
  • for Mezzo-soprano, Trumpet and Piano
  • Premiere: Eastern Music Festival

Computer Music

• Caritas Abundant: Setting the Diamond (8 min.)
  • low voice, wind instrument and live electronics (Max/MSP)
  • Premiere: Greensboro, NC
• Harnessing the Wind (in 3 movements; 10 min.)
  • (interactive dance installation in Max/MSP)
  • Premiere: Modern Repertoire Dance Theater
• The Succubus (7 min.)
  • (computer generated tape)
  • Premiere: FICEA93
  • “evoke[s] the obsessive thoughts which might possess
  • one in the wee hours of the morning” (Classical Voice North Carolina)
• Bells, Bells, Bells
  • (audio installation)
  • Premiere: Sonic Circuits II

Sacred Music

• Fantasy on Wondrous Love (7 min.)
  • Organ fantasy (Augsburg/Fortress Press**)
• Stabat Mater (4 min.)
  • Solo Mezzo-soprano, bass, choir and organ
• Easter Toccata (9 min.)
  • Organ toccata (Christ the Lord is Risen Today)
• Fantasy on “Veni, veni, Emmanuel” (13 min.)
  • Organ fantasy
  • New Organ Works Festival (England)
• Easter Celebration (6 min.)
  • Choir, organ, optional handbells and woodwinds
• Sing to the Lord (5 min.)
  • Children’s choir
• Prayer of St. Francis (5 min.)
  • A capella choir (SATB)
• Gaelic Blessings (5 min.)
  • Choir (SATB)
• Psalm 90 (6 min.)
  • A capella choir (SATB)

Arrangements

• Chansons de Bilitis (C. Debussy)
  • Sop (Mez)/Fl/Hn/Hp/Vn/Va/Vc
• Fandango (P. A. Soler)
  • Fl/Cl/Hn/Harpsichord./Vn/Va/Vc
• Seven Spanish Folk Songs (M. de Falla)
  • Sop (Mez)/Fl/Hn/Hp/Vn/Va/Vc
• Four Pieces for Contrabass
  • Contrabass soloist, Fl/Hn/Hp/Vn/Va/Vc
• Six Songs by Henrik Ibsen
  • Sop (Mez)/Ob (E. Hn)/Cl (B. Cl)/Hn/2Vn/Va/Vc/Cb
• Fünf Lieder (J. Brahms)
  • Sop (Mez)/Fl/Cl (B. Cl)/Hn/Vn/Va/Vc/Cb