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The Valley at Annacarla

(2006) approx. 5:15 minutes

2.2.2+1.2 - 4.3.3.1 timp,perc(3),harp,str
Percussion: sd, bd, tri., bells, susp. cym.


score:$12
set of parts:$40 (strings 4.4.3.2.2)
each extra
orchestral part:		$1

 Annacarla is the name that Dutch linguist, Elizabeth Willink, gave her rambling adobe house near Cuba, New Mexico. She invited composer Michael Mauldin to stay there on his trips to Chaco Canyon, the center of a mysterious and prodigious American Indian civilization a thousand years ago. This piece was inspired by the beauty and spirit of the valley that the house overlooks, welcoming and nurturing, yet visited by blizzards, forest fires and the other adversities of nature.
 
 
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Three Jemez Landscapes

(1973) approx. 9 minutes

2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 timp,perc(2),str
Percussion: snare, bells and suspended cymbal.


score:$22
set of parts:$53 (strings 4.4.3.2.2)
each extra
orchestral part:		$1.50
CD: There is also a commercial compact disc, with five excellent Michael Mauldin works on New Mexico themes including Three Jemez Landscapes, with the composer conducting the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Three Jemez Landscapes, "Fantasy on a Huron Carol", is a tone picture reminder of a camping trip to the Jemez Mountians, in three movements. It won first-place in the "large ensemble" category of the New Mexico Composers Guild Bicentennial Composition Contest and was premiered on October 2, 1976 in Popejoy Hall at UNM by the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Orchestra, Dale Kempter, Director.

1. Calavaras Dawn/Moonset (an old carol) (2:10) attacca...
2. Rio de las Vacas (some old jokes) (3:10)
3. Paliza Sun-Cliffs (some old echoes) (3:40)
 
 

Dawn at San Juan Mesa

(1995) approx. 5 minutes

2.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 timp,perc(2),harp,str
Percussion: bells and suspended cymbal.

score:$14
set of parts:$38 (strings 4.4.3.2.2)
each extra
orchestral part:		$1
CD: There is also a commercial compact disc, with five excellent Michael Mauldin works on New Mexico themes including Dawn at San Juan Mesa, with the composer conducting the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

The top of San Juan Mesa is the site of an unexcavated Anasazi city. This work gives the feeling of the craggy beauty of the area as the sun bursts forth at dawn, the magic of the mesa and its people. It was commissioned for the 40th anniversary of the Albuquerque Youth Symphony.

Lawrence Golan, Director, Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, said of Dawn at San Juan Mesa

"... went over very well both for the students and the audience. As for me, in addition to liking the piece, I was very happy with the 'playability' of it. As you know, it is sometimes difficult to find good music that is not an arrangement, that a youth orchestra can play really well."
 
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Promontory Night

(1977) approx. 8 minutes

2.1.2.2 - 2.1.0.0 bells,str

score:$14
set of parts:$36 (strings 4.4.3.2.2)
each extra
orchestral part:		$1.50

 In a review of several of Michael Mauldin's works in the American Record Guide:
"...works by New Mexico composer Michael Mauldin (b. 1947) show his ability to evoke the wonder of Western American landscapes. ... [other works] and Promontory Night (an attempt to depict the spookiness of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico) are energetic but infused with the same quiet introspection..."

Ghost Ranch, the former home of artist Georgia O'Keefe, is a well-known conference center on a cattle ranch near the foothills of the Jemez Mountains. Past celebrations and dances are imagined in the central section surrounded by evocations of the eerie after-dark quality of the surrounding mesas, wind and echoes of bird calls.