1992 Night Passage Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant 1991 Lipstick (ballet) 1990 Hammer Music 1989 Fantasie of a Sudden Turtle Symphony No.1 Castles in the Air 1988 An Unavoidable Obsession Waves of Talya 1987 My Friend Mozart Ebullient Shadows Deep Flight 1986 Cross Scintillations Before Infrared < 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.