
Louis Karchin (born September 8, 1951) is an American composer, conductor and educator. He has composed over 60 works including unaccompanied and chamber music, symphonic works and opera. His music has been recognized by awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Andrew Imbrie Award, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, and Walter N. Hinrichsen Award), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and he has received commissions from the Serge Koussevitzky, Fromm, and Barlow Foundations.
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Ghost Waltz
Jane Eyre, Act II Scene 1: No! It Can't Be So!
Dreamscape
Reflection
Prayer
Three Epigrams: I. Celebration
Rhapsody
Lyrics II: I. —
Fanfare/Pavanne for Solo Flute: Pavanne
Fanfare for Marty
Romulus: Sister, would you like to bet there is something that Wolf noticed… (Celestus, Martha, Wolf)
Quartet for Percussion
Voyages
Lyrics II: II. —
Three Epigrams: III. Upheavals
Songs of John Keats for Soprano and Six Instruments
Fanfare/Pavanne for Solo Flute: Fanfare
Three Epigrams: II. Expressions
Dark Mountains / Distant Lights
Romulus: This system of two clocks is a very ingenious one (Wolf, Celestus)
Roethke Songs: Her Time
Roethke Songs: Renewal
Roethke Songs: A Light Breather
Romulus: What reasons? (Martha, Celestus, Wolf)
Romulus: My philosopher and my astronomer are as busy as always (Martha, Celestus, Wolf)
Romulus: I don't detest the mayor, poor fellow (Celestus, Martha, Wolf)
Romulus: What's going on? I hear a baby crying (Martha, Celestus, Wolf)
Matrix and Dream
Plaint
Lyrics II: I.
Lyrics II: II.
Romulus: What was that? (Celestus, Wolf)
Jane Eyre, Act I Scene 1: Mr. Rochester!
Evocations
To the Stars
Romulus: Stop where you are! (Mayor, Celestus)
Romulus: Pardon me, Martha (Wolf, Martha, Celestus)
Romulus: A thousand pardons (Mayor, Celestus)
Romulus: Fine advice to be giving my sister (Celestus, Wolf, Martha)
Romulus: Good Gertrude, she told him everything (Martha, Celestus, Wolf)
Romulus: Martha, I have no home except this one… (Wolf, Martha, Celestus)
Cascades
Summer Song
Capriccio for Violin and Seven Instruments
Rhapsody (excerpt)
Jane Eyre, Act III Scene 1: Oh, Where Is Jane, When We Want Her?
Quintet for Winds: I. Con spirito
Tribute to the Angels: No. 3, I John Saw. I Testify - No. 4, Not in Our Time, O Lord - No. 5, Never in Rome
Tribute to the Angels: No. 6, Now Polish the Crucible
Percussion Quartet (2000)
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