Bruce Adolphe

Commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York, composer Bruce Adolphe and lyricist Louise Gikow have created a comical tribute to choral singers and conductors everywhere. The concept of the p...

This brand-new edition of Bruce Adolphe's Piano Puzzlers celebrates the 20th anniversary of the show as heard on Public Radio's Performance Today. Includes 30 tunes with songs by Gershwin, Kern, Arlen...

'Water Songs' is a group of six songs about water in various forms, from rain to the human brain. The poems range from the lyrical poetry of Katherine Barrett Swett, Emily Dickinson, and James Joyce t...

Memory Believes (a requiem) is a seven-movement work for chamber choir and string quartet dedicated to the memory of the composer's brother, Jonathan Adolphe (1952-2022). Four Meditation movements, ea...

Couple was composed in 1998 for cello and piano for David Finckel and Wu Han. It was commissioned by James and Lois Lasry for SummerFest La Jolla and is recorded on the album For David and Wu Han on t...

Written for the Chapel Choir of University College, Oxford, Giles Underwood, Director of Music. This setting of Pireeni Sundaralingam's poem LOT'S WIVES (about the Sri Lankan Civil War that took place...

This work was commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet. Movements: I. Unexpected Turbulence; II. On That Note; III. It Follows That; IV. Winding Up.

This story of a king's love of music, his wise cat, and a very large collection of accountants was written many years ago by Christopher Hope and Yehudi Menuhin. The extraordinary violinist and impres...

The title is a quote from Alice Herz-Sommer (1903-2006), to whose memory this piece is dedicated. Alice Herz was born in Prague to Jewish parents who ran a cultural salon, giving her the opportunity t...

Einstein wrote in his journals that relativity came to him first in a kind of dream state, and that once the details of the dreamed images appeared to group themselves, he considered that to be thinki...

Live performance includes rehearsal with audience. Movements may be performed separately.

Are There Not a Thousand Forms of Sorrow?' for string quintet (2 violins, viola and 2 cellos) was commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center by a con...

For Ida Kavafian in celebration of 20 years of Music at Angel Fire.

Alma Rose, niece to Gustav Mahler and daughter of renowned violinist Arnold Rose, became a famous violinist and founder of a popularwomen's orchestra called The Waltzing Girls of Vienna. After the Naz...

Based on poems and melodies written by victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

SATB Chorus, Woodwind Quintet and 3 Percussion

Composed for the 90th Anniversary of the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. (2010) ca. 35'

Version of orchestral piece, 1987.

This variation on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star was written for the composer's daughter Katja when she was 8 years old. While not very difficult to play, it sounds wildly jazzy and excitingly virtuosi...