71st Birthday Concert
Faculty/Guest Recital hosted by Eric Pritchard
January 18, 2026 at Nelson Music Room, Duke University
With thanks for the generous support of John and Nancy Lambert, Stephen Reynolds, and Susan Osborne
Hyperlinks on the titles of each piece go to the webpage for that work, which has complete information, scores, and parts.
Video links are to my YouTube channel. WAV links are CD or broadcast quality sound; MP3 links are easier to stream.
(Photos by Thomas Schneider) Video and audio recording by Mark Manring.
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Opening remarks by Eric Pritchard (video) Musician Biographies Program
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Happy Birthday To Me (2005) Anatoly Larkin, piano
Theme and seven variations
Video recording (WAV) (MP3) [5:25]
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A few words by Bill Robinson (video)
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Popular Music of Planet X (chamber version
of Symphony No. 1: PMPX)
(1990;
2004; 2015; 2023)
Eric Pritchard, Carol Chung, violins; Simon Ertz, viola;
Bonnie Thron, cello; Anatoly Larkin, piano
Links on movements I, II, and IV are for the concert band versions, each of which is a separate piece.
I. Polytonalmodalyodel tempo: Giant leaps for mankind
video [0--6:46] (WAV) (MP3) [6:44]
II. A Little
Poem
tempo: Largo
video [7:00--13:53] (WAV) (MP3) [6:49]
III. Scherzo Affective
Disorder tempo: S. A .D.; Trio; S. A. D
video [14:00--20:40] (WAV) (MP3) [6:41]
IV. Burlesque
tempo: Allegro spogliarello; More Bump; Tempo I; More Bump
video [20:50--end] (WAV) (MP3) [6:13]
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Protest Poems (chamber version
of Symphony No. 3: Protest Poems) (2024)
(We did not perform movements I and IV. Information about those movements are on the Protest Poems webpage.)
Movements II and III of Symphony No. 3 were performed by the Durham Symphony Orchestra on October 19, 2025.
Video [18:19] full recording (WAV) (MP3)
William Henry Curry, narrator;
Eric Pritchard, violin;
Fred Jacobowitz, clarinet; Bonnie Thron, cello; Anatoly
Larkin, piano
II. II. Father Stalin, Look at This tempo: Holodomoderato
video [0--5:38] Lyrics
(WAV) (MP3)
III. Political Theology tempo: Allegro apocalypse
video [5:55—9:05] Lyrics (WAV)
(MP3) [3:11]
V. Artificial Insanity tempo: Contracyberpunktus I & II
video [9:17--end] Lyrics (WAV)
(MP3) [9:03]
II
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Strange Songs (chamber version) (1979-2010; 2012;
2024)
Video [21:33] full recording (WAV) (MP3) [20:19]
Eric Pritchard and Carol
Chung, violins; Simon Ertz, viola;
Bonnie Thron, cello; Anatoly Larkin, piano;
DeMar Neal, Frances Bushman,
Erica Jackson, Corey Leak, Brad Croushorn, singers;
Reyna Bliss, conductor
I. I'm a Physicist and
That's Just Fine
tempo: With Calculated Abandon [6:56]
video [0--6:56] (WAV) (MP3)
II. Little Miss Nonfat
tempo: Allegro macroneurotica [5:09]
video [7:01--12:10] (WAV) (MP3)
III. Math Class: or, Does the Zero Have Buddha-NatureTM?
tempo: Allegro
diploma [5:23]
video [12:12--17:38] (WAV) (MP3)
IV. What I Hear After Submitting A Score
tempo: Vivace flagrante delicto [3:49]
video [17:38--end] (WAV) (MP3)
