Ron Newman – piano, composition
| Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | Stony Steps – played at 1/4 speed and reharmonized. As in the jazz tradition, the melody is first played, then improvised upon by both sax and piano. With Chad Langford, bass, and Jake Fleming, soprano sax. We called the last chord the ‘For Carl’ chord because it sounds like the ending to the movie ‘Contact’ where the dedication to Carl Sagan – ‘For Carl’ – appears. | Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | The traditional way – John Carty plays the original Stony Steps. |
| Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | Katia’s Waltz – A composition based on the birth date 23/01/72, which becomes the scale tones 2-3-1-7-2 of the C scale. | ||
| Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | Donkey Dance – All the percussion in this 30-second ditty is produced by or on the human body: slaps, sighs, thumps. | ||
| Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | Feeding The River (excerpt) – a commission for Earth Day by Ophir Elementary School Choir, Big Sky, Montana. Featuring Al Cantrell, violin. | Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | Feeding The River (piano excerpt) |
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Wolves of Lamar While driving through Yellowstone Park’s expansive Lamar Valley one winter to hole up in a remote hotel I by chance happened upon a group of horse-drawn sleds on the side of the road loaded with ventilated animal carriers: the first re-introduction of wild wolves in the lower 48 states. Much later I wrote an orchestral theme for a film-student’s documentary about the event. This is the piano version. | Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | Wolves of Lamar – orchestral version |
| Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. | School Marm – named after a real-life school teacher in the tiny, picturesque town of Willow Creek, Montana. My friend and I both had secret crushes on her. We never called her by her name; she was always ‘school marm’. |
Extended Play of the Above Tunes
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