• Pictures of strangers 

    Baumgardner, Myles Bradford, 1980- (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-10-25)
    Pictures of Strangers is primarily concerned with the differences between perception and reality. These differences are approached both conceptually and musically through a variety of means. The movement titles are drawn ...
  • Queen of Heaven for piano and electronics 

    Blasco, Scott Peter (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-11-04)
    Queen of Heaven is a large-scale composition for piano and electronics, cast as five meditations on the Virgin Mary. Each of the five movements is set in musical materials that both subjectively and symbolically express ...
  • Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts 

    Jesperson, Ryan (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-25)
    Songs from Behind the Curtain is the story of Pascal Baur, a damaged composer in 1980's Hartford, who, as the musical director of the Hartford Opera Company, is encoding Soviet messages into his operas. Within the operas ...