Listen to: 12 SQUARED Snake of Deep Waters	Listen to: 12 SQUARED Wild Ride	Listen to: 12 SQUARED Shango

12 SQUARED is a voodoo tone poem in memory of John Cage for 12 percussionists in eleven movements inspired by Sallie Ann Glassman's New Orleans Voodoo Tarot Cards. Purchase from New World Records

Snake of Deep Waters, "hypnotic confusion; the path from the intellect to the emotions is often clouded. I heard the music in a dream as a piece by someone else. I was asked what I thought about it and I said it was static. It was very somnambulistic."

Wild Ride, (run the Mardi Gras) - "On Fat Tuesday riders in bizarre costumes set out in the early morning. Farmhouses are approached and owners climb to their roofs and drop a chicken. Times stops, caught in the rush of free fall. Horses circle the house and their riders fight over the chicken (later to become gumbo). This is an apocalyptic display of sacred frenzy."

Shango, "Master for magic; the power of Shango is the mind working through the earth. His is the grace not so much of creation as of administration. He is a ruler who is able to balance resources with great skill.

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Night of the Shooting Stars is a tone poem for 16 percussionists commemorating the 2001 Leonid Meteor Shower.		Listen to: Night of the Shooting Stars - movement 2

Antarctica Suite is a 45-minute work for solo piano about the composer's trip to the great white continent!		Listen to: Antarctica - Movement 8 - Humpback Whale

Listen to: A Mass for Mass Trombones Dies Irae

A Mass for Mass Trombones is a requiem based on the 13th century Mass for the Dead in 9 movements, scored for 77 trombones in memory of the composer's father, John Michael Chambers, performed live at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Purchase from Centaur Records #CRC2263

Symphony of the Universe is in the traditional four movements. Each movement is scored for different instrumentation. Movement 1: The Big Bang is for 100 timpani and 5 bass drums. Listen for "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in the center. This was recorded live in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in 1989. The cathedral is two city blocks long and one city block wide, and 150 feet high. Purchase from Newport Classic