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 MKG Variations (cello version) (1999) First Performance July 1999 Steven Ross Sommerfest, Minnesota Orchestra Minneapolis, MN Instrumentation cello Duration 11' Listen MKG Variations Program Notes MKG Variations for cello is commissioned by Marlene Guzman. The work takes advantage of the sonorous qualities of the open strings on the cello. The piece stems out of a spiritual impulse. The first idea, an idea of calm yet anticipatory stasis, acts as a theme which is then varied in a string of variations. The variations range from a passionate expression of the theme to a percussive one; from an angry one to an extremely delicate one; from one that is somewhat Bach-like to one that is fleeting, but frozen in time; to one that is more raw and unforgiving. The work closes with a final presentation of the original theme, dissolving into silence, where it once originated from.