Abstract
Alternative Facts was commissioned by Talujon (NYC) and premiered by them May 1, 2023, at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College. Alternative Facts often requires the players to recite text while playing. Much of this text consists of "found poetry" assembled by me from the publicly available, obsessive, repetitive, climate-change denying tweets and rants of a well-known New York real estate "developer" and TV personality. Movement II starts with my own composed lines and ends with a paraphrase of physicist, Carl Sagan. Movement III is my own version of a demented, sycophantic Greek Chorus riffing in a nonsensical way on the larger context for the ranting that follows in subsequent movements.