Christopher Kies, composer

Cover of With a Little Help from My Friends by The Beatles, Piano Four-hands category entry — Cover Art: Antonietta Kies, website of Antonietta Kies

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Music by Christopher Kies with Poems and Stories, album entry

Chamber music for narrator with varied combinations of brass, woodwinds, and piano alongside ragtime works for solo piano.

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Little Red Riding Hood (or Ladle Rat Rotten Hut) for Clarinet in B Flat, Cello, Piano, and Narrator No. 026, catalogue entry

Catalogue entry for Little Red Riding Hood (or Ladle Rat Rotten Hut) for Clarinet in B Flat, Cello, Piano, and Narrator, No. 026 — Opening of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut for clarinet in B flat, cello, and piano, dedicated to Charlotte H. Kies on her 17th birthday. At a half note equals 108–112, the cello begins pizzicato and piano, and the piano enters piano. Narration cues above the staff read “fork lair Inuit, cell luan pan hoe ants near radar” and “wit takes bite How Hard Hell Chase ants mew sick bite Crystal Fur Kiss.” Music by Christopher Kies, 2007. Text by Howard L. Chace, 1956.

I composed the music to this story as a present for my daughter, Charlotte, on her seventeenth birthday in April of 2007. Read the program note for Little Red Riding Hood (or Ladle Rat Rotten Hut) for Clarinet in B Flat, Cello, Piano, and Narrator

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About the Composer

Christopher Kies is a composer and Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. Read about Christopher Kies