2006 Gloria (Everywhere) Ataturk'un Gunes Ulkesi Temple II last night, in Istanbul... Hammers and Whistlers 2005 Symphony No. 5 Galatasaray 2004 Strange Stone Sheherazade Alive Requiem Without Words 2003 Istathenople 2002 Drawings Gates 2001 Sarkici/The Singer (film score) MKG Variations (guitar version) Flight Box 2000 It's been 80 years One for Eight Symphony No. 4 Sardis < later   > earlier Waves of Talya (1988) First Performance May 1989 Terra Australis Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall New York, NY Instrumentation fl., cl., perc., pi., vln., vlc. Duration 17' Listen Waves of Talya Program Notes Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation, Waves of Talya was written in Rome in 1988 while the composer was there with a Rome Prize Fellowship. The work was named one of the best chamber works of the 20th century by a living American composer in the June 2000 issue of Chamber Music Magazine. Talya is the ancient name of Antalya, the Mediterranean cost city of Turkey, where majestic mountains meet the dazzling, worm cost. The composer visited there on many occasions as a child, and was always in awe of the big waves that irresistibly crashed the pebbly shores.