Alan Duff Berman: Compositions

My works have been performed on the unSUNg series and elsewhere in southern California. My Cummings song cycle, The Syntax of Things, was performed by Alexandra Grabarchuk (for whom it was written) and guitarist Steve Thachuk at the Fullerton Friends of Music Concert 16 December 2023.

Please contact me if you are interested in any of these scores; the Cummings songs for voice and guitar are available through California Guitar Archives.

Solo Guitar
Three in Three (1978)
Guitar Duo
Fantasia (2010)
Dedicated to Dana Duff
Voice and Guitar
The Syntax of Things: A Cummings Love Song Cycle (2013)
Dedicated to Alexandra Grabarchuk
  • since feeling is first
  • i like my body when it is with your
  • somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
  • i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
Solo Flute
Two Wings (1982)
Dedicated to Lynn Schubert
Choral
Roughing It, for improvising speech quartet (text from Mark Twain) (1979)
Dedicated to Walter Wells
Meeting Ground (2016)
Chamber
Scaffoldings (Flute, Clarinet, Piano) (1981)
Movement (Flute, Viola, Narrator; text by Denise Levertov) (1985)
Dedicated to Lynn Schubert and Jack Clausen
Quartet for Kirby (String Quartet) (2013)
Women's Chorus and Guitar
Two Cummings Settings (arrangements from The Syntax of Things for voice and guitar) (2017)
Dedicated to Alexandra Grabarchuk