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Felice compares composing music to cooking, another of his passions. He says that both involve problem-solving. "It's how you put the ingredients together. Are they going to work?" Of the creative process, Felice says, "Everyone who writes, everyone who composes really is involved with some creation.
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Felice inspires his students to be creative and explore their boundaries. He "inspires student composers at Butler
University every day to follow through with unique music composition concepts." "Felice's philosophy lends itself nicely to his career as a music educator. Rejecting the Romantic notion
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Commissions have come with funding from the
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Felice has been commissioned twice to write pieces for Dance
Kaleidoscope. "Earthworks" (2005) is a suite of electronic music, choreographed by David Hochoy, and performed as part of
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Felice's music has been performed in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Greece, Italy, the United
Kingdom, Russia, Austria, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
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of artistic genius, he asserts that, for him, composing is more about form and craft than inspiration and epiphany."
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Romeo & Juliet (1999), chamber orchestra, three percussionists, two harps, piano/celeste, and strings
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The Turn of the Screw (2003), solo piano with electronic processing, sound effects, and recorded medium
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and associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the Jordan
College of Arts at
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Fifteen Pieces About Kim Ellis (1999), clarinet solo with mezzo soprano and percussion obbligato
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Another commission was by the Butler
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Metamorphosis (2001), clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/guitar, cello, keyboards, percussion
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Catechism, Criticism, and Wit (1993), saxophone and an unspecified number of performers
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Homemade Instruments (1997), for orchestra and homemade instruments
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Felice has served as composer-in-residence with the Symphony of Southeast Texas and
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le cadaver exquis boira le vin nouveau (2010), three unspecified soloists and piano
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Up the Creek! (1992), an unspecified amount of performers and a floor that creaks
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Pre-Sleep Mental Dances (1992), song cycle for high voice and piano or orchestra
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you drive ME nervous.... (2009), flute, horn in F, violin, bass, and percussion
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awakenings (winter) (2008), piano solo for either the left or right hand alone
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Four Songs of Jennifer Haines (1989), song cycle for medium voice and piano
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Michael Schelle, ein PortrÀt (2010), speaker, two percussionists, and piano
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The Lamentations Project (2007), treble women's chorus and recorded medium
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Revolution Calling (2013), brass, percussion, and four-channel fixed media
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Road to Damascus (2006), one player on marimba and assorted percussion
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Of Lovers and Rivals (Ten Lines from a Poet's Past) (also known as
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Pasta Concerns: Three Lead Sheets (2006), flexible instrumentation
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BRACE YOURSELF LIKE A MAN (2001), solo violin and recorded medium
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Waiting for Gounod (2004), euphonium and nine string instruments
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Letters to Derrick (1995), song cycle for medium voice and piano
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Charismata (2007), clarinet, alto saxophone, cello, percussion
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Exquisite Corpse (fragment) (2010), three unspecified soloists
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Fanfare and Dances from the Court of the Woodland King (2004)
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We echo a little bit of what God did in the very beginning."
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If Ever Two Were One (2008), high voice and string quartet
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The Word Made Flesh (2004), a round in four or more parts
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Reflection on a Hymn of Thanksgiving (2004), two violins
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now I know in part (2007), violin, cello, and marimba
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Four Christmas Tableaux (2000), SATB and concert band
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arcana (2003), flute/alto flute, violin, cello, piano
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Jumping the Shark (2005), clarinet and wind ensemble
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847:"The Winds of 'Revolution' sweep into Butler",
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343:Canticle of Mary (1994), soprano solo and SATB
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334:...in the Melting (2002), SSAATB and clarinet
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325:A Pocket Breviary (2011), SSAATTBB and organ
322:Heiligenstadt, Oct. 6, 1802 (2011), SSAATTBB
244:Nocturne (1985), cello and chamber orchestra
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384:Echolocator (2009, rev. 2010), piano solo
352:What is Beauty But a Breath? (1984), SATB
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346:My Daughter (1993), SSA and english horn
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511:Chalk Circle Reel (2009), marimba solo
424:The Wedding at Cana (2004), two flutes
418:Walkin' by Myself (2011), bassoon solo
675:"Dr Frank Felice - Butler University"
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545:Psychotica: Six Etudes for the Very,
539:Postlude: Past the Purge Tents (2001)
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565:When Two or More Are Gathered (2001)
542:Prelude: Purge the Past Tense (2001)
455:Phantoms (1984), trombone/piano duet
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458:Troll's March (1983), brass quintet
349:Three Autumn Portraits (1990), SATB
61:. Felice received his PhD from the
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837:, Review from the Butler Collegian
552:Retrogressions (I, II, III) (2001)
328:Bitterroot Homecoming (2006), SATB
241:AinĂșlindalĂ« (1985), symphonic poem
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393:Rapping Papers (2002), piano solo
381:Shichi mata ha (2010), piano solo
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219:The Willow Maiden (2002), ballet
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415:The Empty Sky (2011), oboe solo
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316:Nearly Madrigals (2012), SATB
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272:Antics (Pagliacciata) (1996)
104:Performances and commissions
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51:Concordia College (Moorhead)
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501:String Quartet No. 1 (1984)
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577:Remembrance of Things Past
489:Quarks (1991), solo violin
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918:Frank Felice, composer
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211:The Willow Maiden
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162:The Four Elements
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