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This symphony, from Bloch's 'Jewish Period' evokes two Jewish traditional celebrations, 'Yom Kippur' (Day of Atonement) and 'Succoth' (Celebration of Harvest). It does this not by using traditional Je...

John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra'...

Critical Edition. This is the third movement of Ives' Holidays Symphony, or as it is officially known, A Symphony: New England Holidays.

Foxtrot for Orchestra.

Work for Orchestra composed in 1986.

An extremely demanding piece that offers soloists and solo sections of the orchestra to show off their virtuoso playing. Dedicated to and first performed by Zubin Mehta and the NY Philharmonic. Perfor...

Work for Orchestra by American composer Richard Danielpour, composed in 1988.

First performance: New York Philharmonic, Bruno Walter, conductor; New York, NY; 16 April 1942.

Complete Works Volume 23a. Work for Orchestra edited by Sir Thomas Beecham.

Work for Orchestra commssioned in 1969 by the New York Philharmonic. Revised edition completed in 1988.

Full Score - 1992 Edition The first movement of A Symphony: New England Holidays. A Charles Ives Society Critical Edition, edited by James B. Sinclair.

The Symphony No. 2 'Mysterious Mountain' is without a doubt Hovhaness' best-known and most popular work. Composed in 1955.

This work was composed in 1982-83 in Ithaca, New York and was commissioned by the North Carolina Arts Council.

First performance in 1990 with Stephen Hough, Piano and Daniel Barenboim, Conductor.

The title Gazebo Dances was suggested by the pavilions (often seen on village greens in towns throughout the countryside) where public band concerts are given on summer evenings. The delights of that...

Commissioned for the Pittsburgh Youth Orchestra, this piece for orchestra depicts a chance meeting between The Jogger and the Dinosaur, and is playable by and for young people. The full score includes...

Originally scored for Piano solo (GS48199) Griffes' 'Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan' was later expanded into a tone poem for orchestra by the American impressionistic composer. It is based on the poetry...

This work is perhaps best described by the composer Tan Dun: 'About five years ago I went to an exhibition on the works of painter Paul Klee at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I was extremely mo...

A Colorful Symphony' is based on a chapter from Norton Juster's popular book for children 'The Phantom Tollbooth', in which a little boy enters a magic land where an orchestra and its conductor play t...

Symphonic Triptych for Orchestra.

A vivid, jazzy orchestral showpiece celebrating a familiar Latin American tradition.

John Alden Carpenter was an American composer of the first half of the 20th century. 'Sea Drift' was an inspiration based on the composer's impression of Walt Whitman's poems of the same name. This is...