Editions Bim

Richard Lane and I were both drafted into the U.S. Army in October, 1956 and met during our second session of basic training at the Band School, Ft. Dix, New Jersey in January, 1957. We became immedia...

The music left by the Czech composers imprisoned in Terezin and then murdered by the Nazis during World War II is one of the marvels of twentieth century art. Had they lived and continued to write, th...

This string quartet was written at the request of the Sebastian String Quartet. These musical postcards express the composer's deep and intimate feelings for the beautiful places on Earth. Boston Blu...

The idea came to me suddenly: It would be Undine or Ophelia, in any case with a connection to water. When I reread the two stories, I decided on Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, a touching portrayal of...

The Fantasia was commissioned by the Terezin Music Foundation in 2003. The term 'virtual', borrowed from contemporary cyberspace usage, refers to the fact that the choral is not really there - that is...

The brevity of my Quatuor No. 1, op. 60 and the little piece Alligun were probably the incentive to undertake the composition of a more extensive string quartet at an advanced age. It seemed urgent to...

string quartet and narrator (ad lib.)

Mircea Saulesco commissioned Alligun for his well-known quartet. This one movement work includes an Introduction, Allegro, Berceuse and Coda. The Introduction features crashing dissonant chords. The a...

Dialogues III for horn and tuba, was composed in 1987, funded by a grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School. It is one of a series of duets for tuba and other brass instruments....

Ride 'em Cowboy is a short, concise jazz duet for flugelhorn and trombone which is meant to be fun and enjoyable to play. Both melody and harmony are based on the interval of a third and this can be s...

2 Spielpartituren Complex , commissioned by the French tubist François Thuillier, was written in the autumn of 2011. It was preceded by a collaboration between the composer and the tubaist that began...