Please enjoy some samples of my music... Click on the links below to play MP3 samples of my music. (If you don't have an MP3 Player you can download and install one or many free ones.)
If you like it and would like to purchase full length CDs, I can send you CD(s) if you send me check.
Mail checks for $5 or $10 per CD (your choice, your wallet) to cover administrative and postage and all to:
Linton Hale
828-B 59th St.
Oakland CA 94608
I have 3 CDs available at this time:
Meeting & Greeting
Bamboo Flute & Piano (solo improvisations)
Recent Works
Please email me if you have interests or questions.
No War is Worth Our Child Oakland, October 2003 Linton Reynolds Hale - Composition, Bamboo flute Ali Trotta-Marshall - voice, sruti box Gary Trotta-Marshall - acoustic guitar Katrina Wreede - viola Joe Scholz-Fajen - Mbira MP3 file of full track, excerpts and more info: No War is Worth Our Child
You Don't Own the Drone at Studio Valencia, San Francisco, June 2000 Linton Reynolds Hale - Composition, Bamboo flute and Mbira Robert Heirendt - Mbira Hank Obermayer - Didgeridoo MP3 file to download: You Don't Own the Drone excerpt (2mb)
Intent at Studio Valencia, San Francisco, October 1999 Linton Reynolds Hale - Composition, Bamboo flute, Conducting
| Harmonic Singing | Arjuna |
| Kora (West African Harp) | Daniel Berkman |
| Dotar | Rick Heizman |
| Tabla | Debopriyo Sarkar (Bubai) |
| Didgeridoo | Hank Obermayer |
| Violin | Wallace Harvey |
| Viola | Deb Bradway |
| Bass Violin | Bob Camp |
| Dancer | Michelle Stortz |
The words intent, attend and attention come from the Latin tendere which means to stretch. I explained my intent to the audience, that, if they were comfortable with the idea, I wanted them to be in physical contact with one or more people the entire time the candle was lit. "Hold hands, lean, play footsies or what have you, but try to be in contact with each other." Musicians were told to work with the idea of creating and supporting: to think about what makes a ritual. Invocation of things you love, that which you wish to embody. Intend to hear each other and be heard. MP3 files to download: Intent excerpt 1 (1.3mb) Intent excerpt 2 (1.3mb)
Meeting & Greeting at ODC Theater, San Francisco, October 1998 Linton Reynolds Hale - Composition, Bamboo flute
| Conductor | Urs Leonhardt Steiner |
| Orchestra | Members of San Francisco Sinfonietta |
| Violin | Claire Harmon |
| Violin | Helene Munch-Andersen |
| Viola | Deborah Tien |
| Cello | Monica Scott |
| Bass | Alan Lochhead |
| Dancers | Michelle Stortz, Cristina Lella |
| Soloists | In order of appearance: |
| Marimba | Dan Kennedy |
| Percussion | Tabla Rasa (Tim Witter, Dan Kennedy, Jim Santi Owen) with guest Joe Fajen |
| Didgeridoo | Carin McKay, Hank Obermayer, Len Pisciotta |
| Sarod | Lisa Moskow |
| Spike Fiddle | Peter Whitehead |
| Viola | Deb Bradway |
| Mbira | Robert Heirendt |
This 45-minute piece makes cross-cultural connections by combining composed sections and improvised sections featuring soloists including drums of India and West Africa, string instruments from Europe and Asia, thumb piano from Zimbabwe and didgeridoo from Australia. MP3 files to download: Meeting & Greeting excerpt from track 1 (2 mb) Meeting & Greeting excerpt from track 4 (2 mb) Meeting & Greeting excerpt from track 5 (1 mb) Go home / Tell me what you think