Roger Trefousse: The Geography of Yearning. (2nd movement)
score for this work: saved to Dropbox (pdf)
Roger Tréfousse has written a wide variety of music: film scores, operas and musicals, symphonic works, songs and chamber music.
He has composed three operas, The Monkey Opera, premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Found Objects, commissioned by the Mannes College of Music; and Blue Margaritas, premiered in New York at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Départ Malgache, the first section of a new group of short operas with libretto by Kenneth Koch, was featured on WNYC radio.
Two musicals have been produced in New York City, Snobs Cabaret at Encompass Music Theater and Hoosick Falls at The Theater for the New City. Selections from Raft of the Medusa, a work-in-progress, were featured in concert by Downtown Music Productions. He has written incidental music for many plays, among them On the Verge (The Mark Taper Forum), A Husband’s Notes About Her (The Actors Studio) and 1000 Avant Garde Plays (The Robert Wilson Center).
Film scores include the HBO thriller Ladykiller; the PBS documentary Jackson Pollock:Portrait; V.A. Rowlands’s Ascending Double Helix (score commissioned for Access Contemporary Music’s 2019 Music and Film Festival in Chicago ) and Entre Les Images, which receievd first prize in Calgary, Canada, at the Artifact Small Format Film Festival in 2020. Television credits include music for The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.
He has written a broad range of instrumental music, including Column for English horn and string orchestra, premiered at The Juilliard School; Balanced Boulders for narrator, flute, tuba and percussion, commissioned by legendary downtown New York writer Spencer Holst in honor of the publication of his collected stories; Fantasy for flute, celesta and cello, for the Ben Weber retrospective concert at Miller Theater (Columbia University); Music for Grete, originally written as a piano work for Grete Sultan and later scored for string quartet at the request of Lucas Foss for the Hamptons Music Festival and Synesthesia/Fusion: 3 Painters Portrayed in versions for piano and for five instruments. READ MORE
He has composed three operas, The Monkey Opera, premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Found Objects, commissioned by the Mannes College of Music; and Blue Margaritas, premiered in New York at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Départ Malgache, the first section of a new group of short operas with libretto by Kenneth Koch, was featured on WNYC radio.
Two musicals have been produced in New York City, Snobs Cabaret at Encompass Music Theater and Hoosick Falls at The Theater for the New City. Selections from Raft of the Medusa, a work-in-progress, were featured in concert by Downtown Music Productions. He has written incidental music for many plays, among them On the Verge (The Mark Taper Forum), A Husband’s Notes About Her (The Actors Studio) and 1000 Avant Garde Plays (The Robert Wilson Center).
Film scores include the HBO thriller Ladykiller; the PBS documentary Jackson Pollock:Portrait; V.A. Rowlands’s Ascending Double Helix (score commissioned for Access Contemporary Music’s 2019 Music and Film Festival in Chicago ) and Entre Les Images, which receievd first prize in Calgary, Canada, at the Artifact Small Format Film Festival in 2020. Television credits include music for The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.
He has written a broad range of instrumental music, including Column for English horn and string orchestra, premiered at The Juilliard School; Balanced Boulders for narrator, flute, tuba and percussion, commissioned by legendary downtown New York writer Spencer Holst in honor of the publication of his collected stories; Fantasy for flute, celesta and cello, for the Ben Weber retrospective concert at Miller Theater (Columbia University); Music for Grete, originally written as a piano work for Grete Sultan and later scored for string quartet at the request of Lucas Foss for the Hamptons Music Festival and Synesthesia/Fusion: 3 Painters Portrayed in versions for piano and for five instruments. READ MORE
https://www.rogertrefoussemusic.com/about-roger
Duration: 04'42"