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Works Kevin Puts - Composer

Orchestral Works
 
Exalted Virelai
Falling Dream
Inspiring Beethoven
John Brown’s Body   for narrator and orchestra
Millennium Canons
Network
River’s Rush
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2: Island of Innocence
Symphony No. 3 (“Vespertine”)
Symphony No. 4
...this noble company
Vespertine Elegy

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Exalted Virelai (after Guillaume de Machaut)   (1998)
Commissioned by the California Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: California Symphony Orchestra/Barry Jekowsky, conductor, 1998
Duration 14:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; pno - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Falling Dream   (2001)
Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra/BMI Foundation
Premiere: American Composers Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, 2002
Duration 16:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 4 perc; pno; hp - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Inspiring Beethoven   (2001)
Commissioned by the Phoenix Symphony
Premiere: Phoenix Symphony/Michael Hermann, conductor, 2002
Duration 12:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; pno - str
Click for Program Notes
 
John Brown’s Body   for narrator and orchestra (2001)
Commissioned by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: Pacific Symphony, Jack Everly conductor, 2001
Duration 14:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; hp; pno - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Millennium Canons   (2001)
Commissioned by the Boston Pops Orchestra and Hanson Institute for American Music
Premiere: Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart, conductor, 2001
Duration 7:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 4 perc; hp; pno - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Network   (1997)
Commissioned by the California Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: California Symphony Orchestra/Barry Jekowsky, conductor, 1997
Duration 7:00
3.2.2.3. - 4.4.3.1. - 3 perc; pno - str
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River’s Rush   (2004)
Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony in celebration of the orchestra’s 125th anniversary
Premiere: Saint Louis Symphony/Leonard Slatkin conductor, September 2004
Duration 10:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; hp; pno - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Symphony No. 1   (1999)
Commissioned by the California Symphony Orchestra
Premiere: California Symphony Orchestra/Barry Jekowsky, conductor, 1999
Duration 24:00
3.3.2.2. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; hp - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Music Sample
Symphony No. 2: Island of Innocence   (1999)
Commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony and the Utah Symphony through the Barlow Foundation
Premieres: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Jarvi, conductor and Utah Symphony/Keith Lockhart, conductor, 2002
Duration 21:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; hp; pno - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Symphony No. 3 (“Vespertine”)   (2003)
Commissioned by Kathryn Gould/Meet the Composer through the Magnum Opus project
Premiere: Marin Symphony Orchestra/Alasdair Neale, conductor, 2004
Duration 25:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; 3 perc; hp; cel - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Symphony No. 4   (2007)
Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Premiere: Cabrillo Festival Orchestra/Marin Alsop, conductor, 2007
Duration 25:00
3.3.3.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp; 3 perc; hp - str
 
...this noble company   (Processional for Orchestra) (2003)
Commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony
Premiere: Atlanta Symphony/Jere Flint conductor, Summer 2003
Duration 6:00
3.3.3.3. - 4.3.3.1. - timp; hp - str
Click for Program Notes
 
Vespertine Elegy   (Third Movement from Symphony No. 3) (2003)
Duration 15:00