Edward B. Marks Music Company

Presented in five movements, Bolcom's Suite No. 1 in C Minor for solo violoncello is adapted from the score for the Arthur Miller play Broken Glass, used in part in the Long Wharf (New Haven, CT) and...

A virtuosic showpiece in two movements: I. Elegia - to an Old Musician and II. Moto Perpetuo. The first movement draws inspiration from and is an elegy for Norman Dello Joio, the composer's father. ca...

This spirited piece incorporates many varying styles, including ragtime. It was commissioned by Portland Summer Concerts for Sergiu Luca, a longtime proponent of Bolcom's music.

Four-movement chamber work with each movement focusing on a fantastical tale, including: a love affair with a vampire, flying centaurs, a dwarf's serenade, and an abandoned ferryboat. 18 minutes.

Originally written for solo violin and string orchestra. In three movements: 1. Romanza, 2. Valse funebre, and 3. Cakewalk. Advanced Level. Written for the famed violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, a...

Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs, and...

Includes the cycles Chestnuts, From the Diary of Sally Hemings, Laura Sonnets, Old Addresses, selections from The Hawthorn Tree, and individual songs. With notes on the songs and composer comments. In...

12 short cabaret songs inspired by Carrie Jacobs Bond's Half-Minute Songs. Lyrics by Arnold Weinstein.

18 songs with texts by Sandra Seaton. The singer performs from the perspective of Sally Hemings, a slave of Thomas Jefferson with whom he had an intimate relationship. Includes vocal texts.

Song cycle of five Petrarch sonnets written on commission for the American Liszt Society in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt.

Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs and s...

Includes the cycles Chestnuts, From the Diary of Sally Hemings, Laura Sonnets, Old Addresses, selections from The Hawthorn Tree, and individual songs. With notes on the songs and composer comments. In...

The Garden of Eden was originally published in its solo piano version in 1974. The four rags that make up the suite - Old Adam, The Eternal Feminine, The Serpent's Kiss and Through Eden's Gates - tell...

Piano reduction for 2 pianos, 4 hands. Commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and premiered on March 8, 1976. Includes 3 movements: Andante spianato - Allegro, Regrets, and Finale.

William Bolcom wrote this beautiful piece for Theodor and Evelyn Jacobsen. He describes it as leisurely, calm, with great smoothness and repose.

A View from the Bridge, with a libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller, is a faithful adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Set in the Sicilian-American community of 1950s Brooklyn, this story...

This collection of 5 art songs comes from Ancient Greek poetry. The music was written by William Bolcom and the poems were translated into English by Arnold Weinstein. Songs: On a Statue of a Runner *...

William Bolcom's oratorio, premiered in 1984, is based on writings of William Blake. The piece is enormous in its scale, requiring hundreds of performers, and was recorded for a Naxos release, conduct...

Composed in memory of Bolcom's former teacher, Darius Milhaud, this piece can be played as an introduction to another piece, or as 'bookends' for a group of small works. For two pianists at one piano.

Composed in 1986-87. Based on the theme from George Rochberg's Violin Concerto, Movement IV.

Commissioned by the Friends of Today's Music program of the Music Teachers' Association of California, this publication is a great follow-up to Bolcom's previous work, Nine Bagatelles (00294028). Incl...

Pianist Guy Livingston commissioned 60 composers to each write a piece that would last 60 seconds. Bolcom's entry is whimsical, and a perfect piece for an encore.

Bolcom composed these easy piano pieces for his wife to play in her piano lessons. They are accessible to beginner and intermediate level pianists of all ages.