
Tobias Picker, born in New York City in 1954, recently described by BBC Magazine as “displaying a distinctively soulful style that is one of the glories of the current musical scene,” holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, and Princeton University where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt. He began gaining international recognition at 24 when The New Yorker identified him as "a genuine creator with a fertile unforced vein of invention.
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Old and Lost Rivers
Piano Concerto No. 2, "Keys to the City"
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Old and lost Rivers, for orchestra
Entracte
Act I, Scene I: Dawn in the Valley
Cello Concerto: I. Not even the rain
Act I, Scene IV: The Foxhole Interior
Act I, Scene III: Entrance to the Foxhole
Act I, Scene II: The Foxhole
Symphony No. 2 - "Aussöhnung"
Keys to the City
And Suddenly It's Evening: II. Ray Of The Sun
And Suddenly It's Evening: III. Suddenly evening
And Suddenly It's Evening: I. Heart of the earth
Cello Concerto: IV. Lament
Act II, Scene II: The Farmyards of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean
Therese Raquin: Act I Scene 1: Introduction
String Quartet No. 1 - "New Memories"
Cello Concerto: III. Those we loved
Cello Concerto: II. Brief journey
Act II, Scene I: The Foxhole
Emmeline: Act One: The Lord Has spared this child"
Act III, Scene I: The Devastated Den
The Farewell
Act III, Scene V: The Farmyards
Act III, Scene III: A Glade Near the Devastated Den
Opera Without Words, Scene 5: The Farewell
Act III, Scene IV: The Farmyards of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean
Therese Raquin: Act I Scene 1: Therese. Therese. Therese (Madame)
Seance, "Homage a Sibelius"
Act II, Scene IV: Outside the Foxhole
Act II, Scene III: The Foxhole
Act III, Scene II: An Obscure Corner of the Forest
Violin Concerto: I. quarter-note = 108
Therese Raquin: Act I Scene 1: She watched me painting along the Seine (Laurent)
When Soft Voices Die
Nova: i
Violin Concerto: III. quarter-note = 92
Violin Concerto: Interlude
Violin Concerto: II. quarter-note = 66-72
Therese Raquin: Act I Scene 1: Therese needs a change of scenery (Camille)
Old & Lost Rivers
Romance
Emmeline: Act One: "Give her to me"
Rhapsody
Therese Raquin: Act I Scene 1: When we were little children (Therese)
Emmeline: Act One: "Dearest Mother and Father"
Therese Raquin: Act I Scene 1: Like a ghost he stood before us (Laurent)
Act III, Scene VI: The New Foxhole
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