Scourge Songs
Five songs about the pandemic on poetry by Alyse Knorr
Release January 12, 2024 by Disegni Music
Featuring the Nebula Ensemble
Find it on:
Apple Music
Spotify
YouTube
….and all other streaming platforms. Just search for “Scourge Songs” and the Nebula Ensemble.
Windswept: Vol. II
Modern chamber music for winds.
Released June 24, 2022 by Navona Records
Featuring the New London Chamber Ensemble playing Moon Jazz: River on the Moon
Cross/Over
Virtuosic new music for ukulele with percussion and electronics
Released October 31, 2021 by Donald Bousted & Lee Ferguson
Featuring Cross/Over and Evocations
The New Classical Ukulele
Released November 2020 by Donald Bousted
Featuring the Five Etudes and Four Moods
Form’d of Joy and Mirth
William Harned, Piano
George Lacson, Audio Engineer
String Quartet OCD
The Playground Ensemble String Quartet: Sarah Whitnah and Leslie Sawyer, Violins; Donald Schumacher, Viola; Richard vonFoerster, cello
EP Release from Disegni Music
Released May 6, 2016
In the autobiographical tradition of the string quartet since the time of Beethoven, Loretta Notareschi’s String Quartet OCD sketches the emotional landscape of the composer’s experience with postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder in the year following her daughter’s birth. Postpartum OCD, which affects approximately 3 to 5% of mothers, is characterized by intense fear and anxiety, in response to which mothers develop repetitive coping behaviors. The four movements of String Quartet OCD take the listener on a journey through the anxiety, fear, and shame of the disease through the joy of recovery. Although String Quartet OCD dramatizes one person’s personal experience with mental illness, it seeks to give voice to the universal fears of all people about our vulnerability and our children’s vulnerability in a dangerous world.
Read more about String Quartet OCD and Notareschi’s experience in her Essay Before a String Quartet. Peruse and purchase the score here.
Inventions, Interludes, and Interjections
By Duo Montagnard, featuring Two About Two for guitar and soprano saxophone.
