Daniel Felsenfeld

Biography

Music

Orchestral music

• The Dresden Soul Symphony for orchestra, chorus, rock band, and four soul singers
• Insomnia Redux; 4am for orchestra
• Thursday Night Overture for chamber orchestra
• The Bridge for soprano and chamber orchestra
• Summer and All it Brings solo cantata for soprano, narrator and chamber orchestra
• Busmeat: A Parable for orchestra
• Nicotine Sinfonietta concerto for violin and chamber orchestra

  Opera

• The Last of Manhattan for singers and chamber ensemble, libretto by Ernest Hilbert
• Summer and All it Brings for soprano, narrator, harpsichord and cello, libretto by Ernest Hilbert
• Thursday Night: Suite from an Abandoned Opera for singers and chamber orchestra

  Chamber music

• "You.Have.No.Idea" for string quartet
• All Work and No Play for piccolo and piano
• Life Shrinks for piano, cello and percussion—music for dance
• Living Room Suite for string trio
• For Stephanie for string quartet
• First Scenes from Red Room for violin and piano
• From Maldoror for flute, oboe, piano and narrator
• I Conquered Egypt for piano trio
• Let Me Out for timpani, cello and bass clarinet
• Live ‘Til Twilight for cello and piano
• Fast Living for cello and percussion
• Cultivating Cool for flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano, percussion and double bass
• Smoking My Diploma for oboe, cello and piano
• Looking for Funny Dog for flute and organ
• O I LIKE the LIFE that I’m LEADING for flute and piano
• Something Very Serious for violin and piano
• Don’t Call me Sir for clarinet and piano
• Bad Coffee Serenade for violin and piano

  Solo music

• Down to You Is Up, Three Movements for solo piano
• Air That Kills for solo violin
• A Dirty Little Secret for solo piano
• Insomnia Redux; 4am for solo piano
• Obsession No. 1: Toscanini’s Glasses for solo piano
• The Cohen Variations for solo piano
• Hooked to the Silver Screen for solo viola

  Vocal music

• "From Sleepless Nights" for mezzo-soprano and cello
• In My Craft and Sullen Art for soprano and piano
• The Poet's Dream of Herself as a Young Girl for mezzo-soprano and piano trio
• Fall, Leaves, Fall for soprano and piano
• “Aria” from Magnificat for soprano and piano
• To a Cabaret Dancer for mezzo-soprano and piano
• Dry Sandwiches for soprano and piano
• Lines for Winter for tenor and piano
• You Want a Social Life, With Friends for baritone and piano
• Annus Mirabilis for bass and piano
• True Love for soprano and organ
• The Bridge cycle of five songs for soprano and piano; inspired by the poetry of W. H. Auden and Ernest Hilbert, and The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• New Forms of Control for female voices, two synthesizers, and percussion
• I May Never Get Home cycle of seven songs for baritone and piano
• Thank You, Goodnight cycle of five songs for soprano and piano
• L’Envoi for soprano and piano
• Sunday Night for soprano and piano
• Elizabeth Among the Rains cycle of five songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
• From the Letters of Heloise for soprano, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion and strings
• I Am Saturn cycle of three songs for soprano and piano
• Equals for soprano and string quartet
• Five Songs for Five Friends cycle of five songs for soprano and piano

  Choral music

• Revolutions of Ruin for SATB chorus with soprano and baritone soloists and chamber orchestra
• Manhattan Choruses for SATB chorus and organ

  Books

• Antonio Vivaldi and the Baroque Tradition, with Donna Getzinger
• Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber: Their Lives and Music
• Johannes Brahms and the Twilight of Romanticism, with Donna Getzinger
• Richard Wagner and German Opera
• George Frideric Handel and Music for Voices, with Donna Getzinger
• Tchaikovsky: A Listener's Guide Book
• Johann Sebastian Bach and the Art of Baroque Music with Donna Getzinger
• Charles Ives and Aaron Copland—A Listener's Guide