Binnette Lipper (1939-2016)
Binnette Lipper (1939-2016)
Binnette Lipper received her music education at Hunter College and the Juilliard School. She studied composition privately with Ludmila Ulehla, Ron Herder and Meyer Kupferman. Formerly on the faculty of Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, for many years, Lipper now serves on the school’s board of trustees. An active member of the New York Women Composers, Lipper is the recipient of an American Music Center grant, Meet-the-Composer Grants, ASCAPlus Awards, and numerous commissions. Her works have been heard in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Far East. Her compositions are published by Frank E. Warren Music and the Hildegard Publishing Company.Lipper’s works are recorded by North/South Recordings, Musicians Showcase Recordings, Euterpe Recordings and Capstone Records.
Adam to Eve: A Retort
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for tenor and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel;
written as a companion piece (or duet) to "Eve to Adam (In Consideration of their Brief Time Together)"
premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Leaving
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for mezzo soprano and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel'
Premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Posted on the Fridge
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Duet, written for soprano, mezzo soprano and piano. Humorous.
Poem by Joan Rudel;
Premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Last Day at the Beach
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Musical setting for mezzo soprano and piano of the poem, "Here I Don't Need Anyone", by Joan Rudel. Premiere: Oct. 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
Eve to Adam (In Consideration of their Brief Time Together)
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for mezzo soprano and piano, OR soprano and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel; written as a companion piece (or duet) to "Adam to Eve: A Retort";
premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Love Song (A Sonnet)
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for mezzo soprano and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel;
Premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Crime
Year: 2006
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Song set to a poem by Ilsa Gilbert, commissioned by the poet. Premier March 25, 2007, St. Marks Church in the Bowery, NYC
Sunday Afternoon on the Ohio
Year: 2005
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for soprano and piano;
from a poem by Ann Silsbee, from "The Book of Ga";
Premier March 29, 2006, Greenwich House, NYC
Matins
Year: 2004
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for soprano and piano;
Poem by Ann Silsbee, from "Orioling";
Premier March 29, 2006, Greenwich House, NYC
String Quartet No. 2 (Mind Games)
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Description: DALLIANCE, REMINISCENCE, IMPUDENCE String quartet: three selections from "Bagatelles for Piano", transcribed by the composer.
Four Glimpses of Night
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Description: Four short movements for unaccompanied flute, inspired by the poem of the same name (in four stanzas)by Frank Marshall Davis. Commissioned by Nina Assimakopoulos for the "Laurels" Project, 2nd volume, projected CD release Winter 2008-09.
Quintet for Woodwinds
Year: 2001
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Description: In three movements.
Russian premiere, Jan. 25, 2006, Moscow Composers House, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
As I Walked Out One Evening
Year: 2001
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by W. H. Auden;
Commission and premiere, April 27, 2001, Nancy Ellen Ogle (soprano) and Ginger Yang Hwalek (piano), Minsky Hall, Univ. of Maine
I Wish You Love
Year: 2000
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A wedding/love song (words and music by Binnette Lipper) .
Prayer on the Threshold of Tomorrow
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, cello, flute, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Written for SATB Choir, flute, cello and piano.
Based on a poem (1915) by Armenian poet laureate, Vahan Tekeyan (tr. from Armenian by D. Der Hovanessian)
Premiere, April 22, 2001, Moscow, Queen Catherine Palace Concert Hall, Tsarytsyna Ensemble;
Armenian premiere, June 18, 2001, Yerevan, Gomidas Halle, Sorgente Ensemble
Bagatelles for Piano
Year: 1998
Duration (in minutes): 22'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Description: Dalliance, Whimsy, Zephyr, Spatial Relations, Reminiscence, Impudence, Adventure
Premiere: Fechin Institute, Taos, New Mexico, Nov. 1999, A. Stoytcheva
Finalist in 2003 Renee B.Fisher Piano Composition Competition;
CD Recording: "American Women Composers" (2006) North/South Recordings, N/S R 1043
"Her seven Bagatelles...are terse and dramatically effective, the products of a first-class composer." (P. Burwasser, FANFARE, July/August 2008)
"...the elegant classicism of Lipper's Bagatelles..." (J. Sullivan, American Record Guide, March/April 2007)
Trialogue
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind trio
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Trialogue is a dialogue for three instruments (in one movement). Premiere, Hoff- Barthelson Music School Contemporary Festival, May 1998;
CD recording, "Horizons", Musicians Showcase Recordings (MS 1015)
Horizons
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Description: Commissioned by C. Khimm; Premiere:Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, April 25, 1999, Matitiahu Braun, violin (presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Armenian premiere: Chamber Music Hall, Yerevan, Armenia, July 21, 1999, Souren Akhnazarian, violin.
Russian premeier - Queen Catherine Palace Concert Hall, Moscow, March 25, 2000; CD, Musicians Showcase Recordings (M1015)
"Update Ravel's 'Tzigane' to the style of our time, and you have Lipper's 'Horizons.'" - David Denton, FANFARE, January 2001.
Young Mage (Poem by Louise Bogan)
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: The Young Mage. Poem by Louise Bogan. Premier: October, 1997, by Nancy Ellen Ogle (Soprano) and Ginger Yang Hwalek (piano), Minsky Hall, University of Maine.
Circles of Light
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: Concerto in one movement for piano and string orchestra.
Winner of Margaret Fairbanks Jory Copy Assistance Grant, June '96; Commissioned by E. Ivanina for Amadeus String Orchestra, Moscow.
Recorded (2008) by North/South Recordings (N/S R 1048)
Three For Five (Capriccio; Con Sentimento; Moto Perpetuo)
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, oboe
Description: bn, pn, perc (vib, xyl, timp, sn drum, triangle, tambourine, temple blocks, woodblock) Three movements for five players. Russian premiere, Great Hall of Composers, Moscow Autumn Festival, Nov. 1995; E. Ivanina, piano; A. Korneyev, flute; A. Sheyin, oboe; A. Sizov, bassoon; A. Suvorov, percussion. CD: North/South Recordings (N/S R1017)
Sonata for Piano, No. 3
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Languid; Con moto; Con fuoco.
Moscow premiere, May 1995, E. Ivanina.
CD recording, "American Women Composers"(2006), North/South Recordings (N/S R 1043);
"The most substantial work on the disc is the three-movement Sonata No.3...This music is defined by sinew and intelligence, making a strong and bracing impression without a trace of
condescension... ...If there is anger or regret in these pages, it is subsumed by an intricate construction and compelling chromaticism." (P.Burwasser, FANFARE, July/August 2008)
Celebration Variations
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: horn, tenor saxophone
Description: Commission and premiere, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, May 1992; Theme and 5 variations for chamber orchestra; suitable for students. Each variation highlights one instrument or group, and can be excerpted from the piece to stand on its own as a separate work.
The variations are orchestrated thus: Theme: Solo clarinet; Var. 1: 4 flutes (or multiples); Var. 2: piano solo; Var. 3: horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones; Var. 4: flute, clarinet, piano; Var. 5: 4 flutes, 4 clarinets, 4 saxophones.
Hat Song
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Audrey Colombe, "Fall Poem, Mid-way Past the Equinox" Premiere: October 1997, by Nancy Ellen Ogle (soprano) and Ginger Yang Hwalek (piano), Minsky Hall, University of Maine.
Interludes (Fantasy, Recollections, Flight)
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, violin
Description: Commission and Premiere, Crescent Trio, May 1989
"...Lipper writes utterly unpretentious music, extremely well crafted and wonderfully melodic." - John Story, FANFARE, January 2001.
"The interplay among instruments and flowing lines evoking many moods made this a most successsful piece." - Women's News;
CD, Musicians Showcase Recordings (MS 1015)
String Quartet No. 1 (in three movements)
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Description: CD recording "Horizons" (2000)by Musicians Showcase Recordings. (MS 1015)
"The String Quartet... has an easy attraction to anyone who counts the Shostakovich quartets among his or her favorite works." (David Denton, FANFARE January 2001)
Sonnets (Three sonnets of William Shakespeare)
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano
Description: Sonnets: "When In Disgrace With Fortune..."; "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"; "Some Glory in their Birth...". Three sonnets of William Shakespeare, suitable for either mezzo-soprano or soprano, with cello and piano accompaniment.
Fantasy For Oboe And Piano
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Description: Commission and premiered, 1986, Edgemont (NY) Council for Arts.
Two Yeats Songs: For Anne Gregory, The Fiddler Of Dooney
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: mez, pn (poems by W. B. Yeats) Two songs usually performed together. "...astonishingly accomplished..." - Patent Trader
Chorale And Escapade
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: brass ensemble, brass quintet, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players
Instruments: any brass, horn, trombone, trumpet
Dark Hills (Chamber Ensemble and Voice version)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano
Description: Poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Dark Hills (Piano and Voice version)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by E. A. Robinson.
Meteorology (Heat Lightning, Drizzling, Sunsparkle, Ice Night)
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Description: Four movements depicting the weather;
Bulgarian premiere (Sofia), June 1996, A. Stoytcheva;
Canadian permiere (Toronto) 1996, A. Stoytcheva
Soliloquy For Clarinet
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet
Publisher: Frank E. Warren Music Service
Description: Theme and 6 variations for unaccompanied clarinet in Bb or A.
Sonata for Piano, No. 2
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Adagio/Allegro; Allegretto grazioso; Largo.
Trio (for Piano, Violin And Cello)
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin
Description: Three Movements: Allegro con brio, Scherzo, Moderato.
Five Duets For Cello And Piano
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Description: Five Duets For Cello And Piano: Prologue; Andante Cantabile; Sherzino; Fantasia; Epilogue.
"... lined with imaginativeness ..." - Gannett.
If The Owl Calls Again (Poem by John Haines)
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Sonata for Piano, No. 1
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Allegro; Scherzo; Adagio; Presto.
Theme and Variations for Four Hands
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Places
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Fourteenth of July; Over Cork; Sea Abbey; Avila; A Welsh Tale; Alpine Cable Car; The Firs; Street Organ.
Eight short pieces for piano, depicting travels. Easy through intermediate, for either children or adults.
Gavotte For Woodwinds
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe
Description: "...sparlked with engaging dialogues between instruments and interesting tempos..." - Gannett
Horizons
Interludes: Fantasy, Recollections, Flight (for flute, violin and cello)
Horizons (for unaccompanied violin)
Trialogue (for flute, clarinet and bassoon)
Quartet for Strings (No. 1): Moderato, Allegretto, Fugue
Composers: Binnette Lipper
Label: MSR Classics
Product ID: MS 1015
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Truth About Love: Music and the Poetry of W. H. Auden
"As I Walked Out One Evening"
Composers: Binnette Lipper and others
Label: Capstone Records
Product ID: CPS-8702
Buy URL: www.capstonerecords.myshopify.com
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Arcadian Murmurs, Vol. 1
Flute Flight
(and others)
Composers: Binnette Lipper (and others)
Product ID: ER202
Buy URL: http://www.NinaAssimakopoulos.com
Points of Entry: The Laurels Project, Vol. 2
Performers: Bryan Guarnuccio, Katherine Kemler, Nancy Stagnitta, Nina Assimakopoulos, Terri Sundberg
Composers: Binnette Lipper, Ruth Schonthal, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Joyce Hope Suskind, and others
Label: Capstone Records
Product ID: B001FA2WC8
Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Points-Entry-Laurels-Project-Vol/dp/B001FA2WC8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=
American Women Composers
Compositions include: Sonata for Piano no 3 by Binnette Lipper, Bagatelles (7) for Piano by Binnette Lipper, Light from the Cliffs by Hilary Tann, Music for Midwinter by I'lana Sandra Cotton and Fantasia by Mary J. Van Appledorn
Max Lifchitz, pianist.
Garnered 2006 Grammy nominations in two categories: Best Classical Album and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
Composers: Binnette Lipper, Hilary Tann, & others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1043
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1043
Adam to Eve: A Retort
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for tenor and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel;
written as a companion piece (or duet) to "Eve to Adam (In Consideration of their Brief Time Together)"
premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Leaving
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for mezzo soprano and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel'
Premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Posted on the Fridge
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Duet, written for soprano, mezzo soprano and piano. Humorous.
Poem by Joan Rudel;
Premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Last Day at the Beach
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Musical setting for mezzo soprano and piano of the poem, "Here I Don't Need Anyone", by Joan Rudel. Premiere: Oct. 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
Eve to Adam (In Consideration of their Brief Time Together)
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for mezzo soprano and piano, OR soprano and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel; written as a companion piece (or duet) to "Adam to Eve: A Retort";
premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Love Song (A Sonnet)
Year: 2007
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for mezzo soprano and piano;
Poem by Joan Rudel;
Premiere: October 5, 2008, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Crime
Year: 2006
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Song set to a poem by Ilsa Gilbert, commissioned by the poet. Premier March 25, 2007, St. Marks Church in the Bowery, NYC
Sunday Afternoon on the Ohio
Year: 2005
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for soprano and piano;
from a poem by Ann Silsbee, from "The Book of Ga";
Premier March 29, 2006, Greenwich House, NYC
Matins
Year: 2004
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: for soprano and piano;
Poem by Ann Silsbee, from "Orioling";
Premier March 29, 2006, Greenwich House, NYC
String Quartet No. 2 (Mind Games)
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Description: DALLIANCE, REMINISCENCE, IMPUDENCE String quartet: three selections from "Bagatelles for Piano", transcribed by the composer.
Four Glimpses of Night
Year: 2003
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Description: Four short movements for unaccompanied flute, inspired by the poem of the same name (in four stanzas)by Frank Marshall Davis. Commissioned by Nina Assimakopoulos for the "Laurels" Project, 2nd volume, projected CD release Winter 2008-09.
Quintet for Woodwinds
Year: 2001
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, clarinet, flute, horn, oboe
Description: In three movements.
Russian premiere, Jan. 25, 2006, Moscow Composers House, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
As I Walked Out One Evening
Year: 2001
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by W. H. Auden;
Commission and premiere, April 27, 2001, Nancy Ellen Ogle (soprano) and Ginger Yang Hwalek (piano), Minsky Hall, Univ. of Maine
I Wish You Love
Year: 2000
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: A wedding/love song (words and music by Binnette Lipper) .
Prayer on the Threshold of Tomorrow
Year: 1999
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any low voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, bass voice, cello, flute, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano, tenor voice
Description: Written for SATB Choir, flute, cello and piano.
Based on a poem (1915) by Armenian poet laureate, Vahan Tekeyan (tr. from Armenian by D. Der Hovanessian)
Premiere, April 22, 2001, Moscow, Queen Catherine Palace Concert Hall, Tsarytsyna Ensemble;
Armenian premiere, June 18, 2001, Yerevan, Gomidas Halle, Sorgente Ensemble
Bagatelles for Piano
Year: 1998
Duration (in minutes): 22'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Description: Dalliance, Whimsy, Zephyr, Spatial Relations, Reminiscence, Impudence, Adventure
Premiere: Fechin Institute, Taos, New Mexico, Nov. 1999, A. Stoytcheva
Finalist in 2003 Renee B.Fisher Piano Composition Competition;
CD Recording: "American Women Composers" (2006) North/South Recordings, N/S R 1043
"Her seven Bagatelles...are terse and dramatically effective, the products of a first-class composer." (P. Burwasser, FANFARE, July/August 2008)
"...the elegant classicism of Lipper's Bagatelles..." (J. Sullivan, American Record Guide, March/April 2007)
Trialogue
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind trio
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing Co.
Description: Trialogue is a dialogue for three instruments (in one movement). Premiere, Hoff- Barthelson Music School Contemporary Festival, May 1998;
CD recording, "Horizons", Musicians Showcase Recordings (MS 1015)
Horizons
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: violin
Description: Commissioned by C. Khimm; Premiere:Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, April 25, 1999, Matitiahu Braun, violin (presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Armenian premiere: Chamber Music Hall, Yerevan, Armenia, July 21, 1999, Souren Akhnazarian, violin.
Russian premeier - Queen Catherine Palace Concert Hall, Moscow, March 25, 2000; CD, Musicians Showcase Recordings (M1015)
"Update Ravel's 'Tzigane' to the style of our time, and you have Lipper's 'Horizons.'" - David Denton, FANFARE, January 2001.
Young Mage (Poem by Louise Bogan)
Year: 1997
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: The Young Mage. Poem by Louise Bogan. Premier: October, 1997, by Nancy Ellen Ogle (Soprano) and Ginger Yang Hwalek (piano), Minsky Hall, University of Maine.
Circles of Light
Year: 1996
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Description: Concerto in one movement for piano and string orchestra.
Winner of Margaret Fairbanks Jory Copy Assistance Grant, June '96; Commissioned by E. Ivanina for Amadeus String Orchestra, Moscow.
Recorded (2008) by North/South Recordings (N/S R 1048)
Three For Five (Capriccio; Con Sentimento; Moto Perpetuo)
Year: 1995
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble
Instruments: any woodwind, flute, oboe
Description: bn, pn, perc (vib, xyl, timp, sn drum, triangle, tambourine, temple blocks, woodblock) Three movements for five players. Russian premiere, Great Hall of Composers, Moscow Autumn Festival, Nov. 1995; E. Ivanina, piano; A. Korneyev, flute; A. Sheyin, oboe; A. Sizov, bassoon; A. Suvorov, percussion. CD: North/South Recordings (N/S R1017)
Sonata for Piano, No. 3
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 19'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Languid; Con moto; Con fuoco.
Moscow premiere, May 1995, E. Ivanina.
CD recording, "American Women Composers"(2006), North/South Recordings (N/S R 1043);
"The most substantial work on the disc is the three-movement Sonata No.3...This music is defined by sinew and intelligence, making a strong and bracing impression without a trace of
condescension... ...If there is anger or regret in these pages, it is subsumed by an intricate construction and compelling chromaticism." (P.Burwasser, FANFARE, July/August 2008)
Celebration Variations
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 15'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: horn, tenor saxophone
Description: Commission and premiere, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, May 1992; Theme and 5 variations for chamber orchestra; suitable for students. Each variation highlights one instrument or group, and can be excerpted from the piece to stand on its own as a separate work.
The variations are orchestrated thus: Theme: Solo clarinet; Var. 1: 4 flutes (or multiples); Var. 2: piano solo; Var. 3: horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones; Var. 4: flute, clarinet, piano; Var. 5: 4 flutes, 4 clarinets, 4 saxophones.
Hat Song
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Audrey Colombe, "Fall Poem, Mid-way Past the Equinox" Premiere: October 1997, by Nancy Ellen Ogle (soprano) and Ginger Yang Hwalek (piano), Minsky Hall, University of Maine.
Interludes (Fantasy, Recollections, Flight)
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, violin
Description: Commission and Premiere, Crescent Trio, May 1989
"...Lipper writes utterly unpretentious music, extremely well crafted and wonderfully melodic." - John Story, FANFARE, January 2001.
"The interplay among instruments and flowing lines evoking many moods made this a most successsful piece." - Women's News;
CD, Musicians Showcase Recordings (MS 1015)
String Quartet No. 1 (in three movements)
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin
Description: CD recording "Horizons" (2000)by Musicians Showcase Recordings. (MS 1015)
"The String Quartet... has an easy attraction to anyone who counts the Shostakovich quartets among his or her favorite works." (David Denton, FANFARE January 2001)
Sonnets (Three sonnets of William Shakespeare)
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano, soprano
Description: Sonnets: "When In Disgrace With Fortune..."; "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"; "Some Glory in their Birth...". Three sonnets of William Shakespeare, suitable for either mezzo-soprano or soprano, with cello and piano accompaniment.
Fantasy For Oboe And Piano
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: any woodwind, oboe, piano
Description: Commission and premiered, 1986, Edgemont (NY) Council for Arts.
Two Yeats Songs: For Anne Gregory, The Fiddler Of Dooney
Year: 1985
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: mez, pn (poems by W. B. Yeats) Two songs usually performed together. "...astonishingly accomplished..." - Patent Trader
Chorale And Escapade
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: brass ensemble, brass quintet, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players
Instruments: any brass, horn, trombone, trumpet
Dark Hills (Chamber Ensemble and Voice version)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, cello, mezzo soprano, piano
Description: Poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Dark Hills (Piano and Voice version)
Year: 1984
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by E. A. Robinson.
Meteorology (Heat Lightning, Drizzling, Sunsparkle, Ice Night)
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 12'39;
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Description: Four movements depicting the weather;
Bulgarian premiere (Sofia), June 1996, A. Stoytcheva;
Canadian permiere (Toronto) 1996, A. Stoytcheva
Soliloquy For Clarinet
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet
Publisher: Frank E. Warren Music Service
Description: Theme and 6 variations for unaccompanied clarinet in Bb or A.
Sonata for Piano, No. 2
Year: 1982
Duration (in minutes): 21'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Adagio/Allegro; Allegretto grazioso; Largo.
Trio (for Piano, Violin And Cello)
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 11'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin
Description: Three Movements: Allegro con brio, Scherzo, Moderato.
Five Duets For Cello And Piano
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: any string, cello, piano
Description: Five Duets For Cello And Piano: Prologue; Andante Cantabile; Sherzino; Fantasia; Epilogue.
"... lined with imaginativeness ..." - Gannett.
If The Owl Calls Again (Poem by John Haines)
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 3'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Sonata for Piano, No. 1
Year: 1977
Duration (in minutes): 16'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Allegro; Scherzo; Adagio; Presto.
Theme and Variations for Four Hands
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Places
Year: 1976
Duration (in minutes): 14'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Fourteenth of July; Over Cork; Sea Abbey; Avila; A Welsh Tale; Alpine Cable Car; The Firs; Street Organ.
Eight short pieces for piano, depicting travels. Easy through intermediate, for either children or adults.
Gavotte For Woodwinds
Year: 1975
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: any woodwind, bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe
Description: "...sparlked with engaging dialogues between instruments and interesting tempos..." - Gannett
Horizons
Interludes: Fantasy, Recollections, Flight (for flute, violin and cello)
Horizons (for unaccompanied violin)
Trialogue (for flute, clarinet and bassoon)
Quartet for Strings (No. 1): Moderato, Allegretto, Fugue
Composers: Binnette Lipper
Label: MSR Classics
Product ID: MS 1015
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Truth About Love: Music and the Poetry of W. H. Auden
"As I Walked Out One Evening"
Composers: Binnette Lipper and others
Label: Capstone Records
Product ID: CPS-8702
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Arcadian Murmurs, Vol. 1
Flute Flight
(and others)
Composers: Binnette Lipper (and others)
Product ID: ER202
Points of Entry: The Laurels Project, Vol. 2
Performers: Bryan Guarnuccio, Katherine Kemler, Nancy Stagnitta, Nina Assimakopoulos, Terri Sundberg
Composers: Binnette Lipper, Ruth Schonthal, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Joyce Hope Suskind, and others
Label: Capstone Records
Product ID: B001FA2WC8
American Women Composers
Compositions include: Sonata for Piano no 3 by Binnette Lipper, Bagatelles (7) for Piano by Binnette Lipper, Light from the Cliffs by Hilary Tann, Music for Midwinter by I'lana Sandra Cotton and Fantasia by Mary J. Van Appledorn
Max Lifchitz, pianist.
Garnered 2006 Grammy nominations in two categories: Best Classical Album and Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)
Composers: Binnette Lipper, Hilary Tann, & others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1043