Gene Pritsker

Dead Souls is based entirely on the Cuban Son rhythm. It takes a catchy minor melody and develops it with many variations. The title is taken form the great unfinished novel by Nikolai Gogol. The poet...

Vanities Remedy is a perpetual motion composition with an emphasis on syncopation. What is the remedy for vanity? The answer is; laughter, here it is revealed by the high register of the clarinet and...

Drummer Dances is based primarily on rhythms from two famous drum solos. The first 30 bars take the rhythms from Max Roach's solo in 'Delilah Dances', as recorded on the Clifford Brown and Max Roach a...

The title is from the novel 'Cousin Bette' by Honore de Balzac. The samplestra part consists of an Indian voice, Indian flute, drums, and synth. sounds. Samplestra is the name Pritsker gives to any pr...

The great American philosopher William James talks about a credit system of truth in which we take for granted the knowledge of the world around us. For instance, as a child you learn what a car is, w...

Accept the Inevitable Consciously is in two movements. The first movement is entirely based on one persistent melody, which permeates all the material in this movement. We accept it as an inevitable f...

Pan plays his flute in the forest, but the performer also imparts the abject fear of unsuspecting passers-by who come across this creature (thus, Pan[ic]). Advanced performers will enjoy the duality o...