ZEKE HECKER: SELECTED WORKS Scores and parts to orchestral and theater works are available for rental or purchase; all others are for purchase only. To obtain price quotations and perusal scores, see “Contact.” Can’t find something suitable? Zeke Hecker will write a piece to your own specifications: any length, text, occasion, vocal/instrumental combination, or level of difficulty. Commissions are fulfilled swiftly and at moderate cost. ORCHESTRA
ICEBREAKER (1987)
VARIATIONS ON “ELIJAH THE PROPHET” (1988)
THE BIRTHMARK (1989)
GUILFORD FESTIVAL OVERTURE (2005)
SYMPHONY #1 (2005)
SYMPHONY #2 (2007)
SYMPHONY #3 (2008)
PASSING FANCIES (2011)
SYMPHONY #4 (2011)
SYMPHONY #5 (2015)
TWO PORTRAITS FOR OBOE AND ORCHESTRA (2016) VOICE WITH ORCHESTRA
LANDSCAPES (1976)
SUITE FROM “THE TEMPEST” (1978)
TWO SCENES FROM “DRACULA” (1984)
MY LAST DUCHESS (1985)
PROPERTY (2012)
THREE BALLADS (2014)
FAMILY ALBUM (2017)
CHORUS
HALLELUJAH (1973)
THREE MADRIGALS TO POEMS BY ROBERT HERRICK (1999)
ANIMAL LULLABIES (2000)
THE MASQUE OF AMAZONS from “TIMON OF ATHENS” (2005)
IN NEED OF MUSIC (2009)
A MORNING STAR: FOUR EPIGRAMS FROM “WALDEN” (2009)
THREE POEMS OF FRANZ KAFKA (2016)
WHEN MUSIC SOUNDS (2016) INCIDENTAL MUSIC
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1975)
ANTIGONE (1976)
THE TEMPEST (1977)
THE UNINVITED PEST (1985)
MACBETH (1986)
DELUSION (2006) CHAMBER AND SOLO INSTRUMENTAL WORKS
PASSACAGLIA, ADAGIO, AND FUGUE on a Theme by Jimi Hendrix for woodwind quintet (1990)
TRIO for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon (1990)
THE WEATHER FORECAST: Theme and Six Meteorological Variations for Violin and Cello (1990)
3X5: Three Miniatures for Brass Quintet (1991)
THE ELEMENTS for Flute and Harp (1992)
THREE WALTZES for Woodwind Quintet (1992)
STRING QUARTET in D (1997, rev. 2010)
SONATA for Viola and Piano (2002)
QUOTIDIAN: Suite for Woodwind Quintet (2002)
SONATA for Flute and Piano (2004)
PARTITA for Organ (2004)
PARTITA for Brass Quintet (2005)
TRIO for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon (2006)
VIGNETTE for Alto Flute and Piano (2006)
FOUR PIECES for Oboe, English horn, and Bassoon (2006)
DUO for Clarinet and Piano (2006)
FARM SKETCHBOOK for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello (2007)
SONATA for Cello and Piano (2007)
TRIO for Trumpet, Horn, and Trombone (2008)
WOODWIND QUINTET (2009)
SONATA for Oboe and Piano (2009)
DIVERTIMENTO for Bassoon, Violin, Viola, and Cello (2012)
SEXTET for Piano and Wind Quintet (2012)
SONATA for Four Horns (2012)
FIVE SKETCHES for Violin, Viola, and Cello (2013)
QUARTET for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and
Bassoon (2013)
STRING QUARTET #2 in C minor (2013) SUITE for Flute and Trumpet (2014) FOUR PORTRAITS for Cello and Piano (2015) FOUR INTERLUDES for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2015) TRIO for Flute, Oboe, and Piano (2015) THREE WOMEN for Woodwind Quintet (2016) ALBORADA URBANA for Oboe and Piano (2016) VARIATIONS ON A HYMN TUNE for Woodwind Quintet (2017) DANCES AND PANTOMIMES for Flute and Piano (2017) FANTASY ON A HYMN TUNE for Flute and Organ (2017) WINTER WINDS FOR Flute, Oboe, and Clarinet (2018) SUITE from “THE FOREST” for Woodwind Quintet (2018) TRIPTYCH for Horn, Violin, Viola, and Cello (2018) TWO LULLABIES for Brass Quintet (2018)
SONG CYCLES (Voice and Piano)
FIVE SONGS from “A Bad Child’s Book of Beasts” (Belloc) (1973)
THREE YEATS SONGS (1973, revised 2006)
WHAT MUST: Three Songs (MacLeish) (1976)
SONGS OF ANTIGONE: Nine dramatic monologues based on the play by Sophocles to poems by Betsy Snow Hickok (1982)
CROSSCUT: Four Songs to poems by Alicia Hokanson (1986)
A CYCLE FOR CYNICS: 13 songs for baritone and piano to poems by Ambrose Bierce (1990)
EXCEPT THE MOON: Five Songs to poems by Meg O’Connell (1991)
ROUGH EDEN: Three erotic lyrics to poems by Amy Thomas (1993)
SNOW STORM: Four Songs for Tenor, Horn, and Piano (Emerson) (2006)
AT WREN HOUSE: Five Songs to Poems of Alicia Hokanson for soprano and piano (2008)
THAT SAME LIGHT: Twelve Songs to Poems of Charles Simic (2009-10)
PROPERTY: Six songs for soprano and piano to a poem by Sandra Adams (2011)
UNITED: Scene for Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, and
Piano (2013)
THREE SONGS to poems by Wallace Stevens (2014) REMEMBRANCE: Five Songs to poems by Vladimir Nabokov for baritone and piano (2015) TWO VOICES IN A MEADOW for baritone and two English horns (Richard Wilbur) (2015) TRES CANCIONES for baritone voice and piano to poems by Jorge Luis Borges (in Spanish) (2016) WHEN I CONSIDER: Four Sonnets for soprano and piano to poems by Sandra Gilbert, Paula Meehan, Gwen Harwood, and Phyllis McGinley (2017)
Other cycles and individual songs to poems by cummings, Donne, Frost, Auden, Berryman, Updike, Tzu Yeh, Heine, Hecker, and others. OPERA AND BALLET
THE CHASER (1974, revised 2012)
MUSHROOMS (1978)
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (1980)
KAFKA QUINTET (1994)
THE FOREST (2003)
THE UNHAPPY KINGDOM (2005) MUSICAL THEATER
BARATARIA (1997)
TRYST (1999, revised 2013)
DOUBLE EXPOSURE (2003)
BEMUSED (2004)
THE LIFT (2007)
BALANCING ACT (2009)
MIRROR IMAGE (2010-2011)
CLEANING HOUSE (2013)
NOW AND THEN (2013-14)
NOT FOR PROFIT (2015)
PROFILE (2015)
PRIVATE MATTERS (2017)
MOVE (2018)
UNSUITED (2019) ARRANGEMENTS
FIVE RUECKERT LIEDER (1986)
GUILFORD DANCES (2011)
THREE SONDHEIM BALLADS (2012)
THREE DEBUSSY RARITIES (2012)
FIVE PRELUDES BY CARLOS GUASTAVINO (2014)
ALICE (2015)
BRIDGE SUITE (2018)
TWO PIECES BY FANNY MENDELSSOHN (2019) |