[Set includes 2 DVDs or 3 CDs] Craton works include: • Excerpts from Gilgamesh: An Assyrian Opera    Overture    Tablet VI: “The Bull of Heaven” • Excerpts from Inanna: An Opera of Ancient Sumer    Aria: “I, the Lady”    Ballet: “The Huluppu Tree”    Drinking Song from beginning of Act III Featuring Sibel Demirman, Donn Bradley, Lorraine Davis, Julie Anne Miller, Barbara Wesley, vocalists; Sarah Weaver, Joseph Adkins, David Riskin, dancers of the Central West Ballet; René Daveluy, choreographer; orchestra of the Townsend Opera Players; Chase Spruill, solo violin; Ryan Murray, cond. Performed at the Gallo Center for the Arts, Modesto, California, U.S., 23 August 2008. —————————————————————— Works by William Daniel, Nebu Issabey, and others also included, as well as additional non-classical performances by Walter Aziz, interviews, and other features. Click on links below for more information about other works included on discs: Click here for order information about the 3-CD set Click here for order information about the 2-DVD set

• Ann Putname Overture • from The Parliament of Fowls:    The Procession of Birds    The Birds Select Their Spokesmen • from The Reconciliation:    Overure • from The Fashionable Lady:    Overture    Introduction to Act II    Sailor’s Dance    Harlequin Binds the Sailors    Introduction to Act III    Interrupted Dance    Act III Curtain • from La boîte à musique :    Opening scene (The attic)    Ragtime    Reopening the music box (Spectral Waltz)    Death Tango • Orchestral Suite from Inanna    Overture    Ballet: The Huluppu Tree    Passecaille: The Seven Gates to the Underworld    Intermezzo 1: Elegy for Inanna    Intermezzo 2: Inanna Returns from the Underworld    Intermezzo 3: Dumuzi is Sent to the Underworld    Intermezzo 4: The Search for Dumuzi • from The Curious Affair of the Count of Monte Blotto:    Overture    The Duel    Habañera    Finale

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Georg Philippe Telemann (1681-1767)         Fantasia IX J.S. Bach (1685-1750)         Sonata I, BWV 1001 Victor Kioulaphides (1961- )         Differencias Rafael Calace (1863-1934)         Preludio I, Op. 45         Preludio V, Op. 74 Giuseppe Pettine (1874-1966)         Fantasia Romantica Silvio Ranieri (1882-1956)         Canto d’Estate John Craton (1953- )         The Gray Wolf Nicolai Paganinni (1782-1840)         Caprice No. 24

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Victor Kioulaphides (1961- )         Variations on a Basque Theme Giuseppe Manente (1867-1941)         Rêverie de Poète Raffaele Calace (1863-1934)         Concert, op. 155 Arrigio Cappalletti (1877-1946)         Mistica Victor Kioulaphides (1961- )         Concerto per orchestra a pizzico John Craton (1953- )         The Legend of Princess Noccalula Jeff Hijlkema (1971- )         Perpetua Melomania II Luca Mereu (1963- )         Suita Greca

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Pixinguinha         Acerta O Passo (arr. Marilynn Mair) Adam Larrabee         Anniversary Ann Carr Boyd         Fandango Ernesto Nazareth         Perigoso (arr. Marilynn Mair) Will Ayton         Three Fantasias Ignacio Cervanters         No Me Toques Luis Gianneo         Cinqo Piezas (arr. John Craton) Igor Stravinsky         Arioso John Goodin         The Blue House

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[Set includes 2 DVDs and 3 CDs] Craton works include the Tablet VII scene from Gilgamesh: An Assyrian Opera, featuring vocalists Torlef Alika Borsting as Gilgamesh and Mathew Edwardsen as Enkidu; Gottschalk Music Center Orchestra, John Kendall Bailey, cond. Performed at the Gallo Center for the Arts, Modesto, California, U.S., 15 August 2009. —————————————————————— Works by Michel Bosc, William Daniel, Nebu Issabey, and others also included, as well as additional non-classical performances, interviews, and other features.