Scores for Orchestra

Wobbly March (Marcha Incierta) is excerpted from Jacob Datshkovsky's 14 movement suite entitled Sketches of a Sunday (Bosquejos de un Domingo).

The Cantata: How Long O Lord was recorded by CRI in the late 1960s along with two of the composer's father's works. The score bears the inscription To Arosha, my father. Instrumentation: Solo Contralt...

The third movement of NORTH COUNTRY CONCERTO for cello, this music is influenced by rough-hewn folk music. The patterns of bowing across the strings suggest a crossing, or 'arcing' motion rising at th...

This work was written for the Moores Symphony Orchestra and premiered on March 7, 2019. Instrumentation: 3.3.3.2: 4.3.3(BTbn).1: Timp.Perc(3): Pno.Harp: Str

Written as a narrative with animal and human characters much in the same vein as Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, the story of Andrew and the Mystic Trumpeter promotes themes of perseverance and practi...

Music to My Ears is an educational program for ages 5-10 commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts for the Evansville Philharmonic. With a script written by the composer, it teaches about mu...

Rapsodia Argentina is based on traditional older Argentinian tangos, the most famous being Buenos Aires, which is heard at the outset. The whole piece is a kind of huge rondo and is divided into sever...

Written with the same intent as Benjamin Britten's 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', this piece of educational music serves as something new for conductors to program for young audiences. A...

Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for clarinetist Stanley Drucker and premiered under the baton of Leonard Slatkin on January 3, 1992. Both the orchestra and a version for band are available f...

Movements: I. Andante spianato - Allegro, II. Regrets, III. Finale. Premiere: William Bolcom, piano, Seattle Symphony, Milton Katimsconducting, 1976.

Premiere: Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, David Robertson conducting, San Francisco, CA, June 24, 1995. Movements: 1. Come Up from the Fields Father, 2. Scented Herbage of...

Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Premiere: January 15, 1986, Edmonton, Alberta; Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Glenn Mossop, conductor. The composer describes Crim...

Lukas Foss was asked by Artie Shaw for a new work to which Foss responded with his 'Elegy for Clarinet and Orchestra' in 1949. As a world premiere with Shaw unfortunately never materialized, Foss late...

Commissioned by Eddie Jones and the University of Arkansas Concert Choir, this work by Rosephanye Powell features the words of Langston Hughes that inspired Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is an anth...

Commissioned by Gary Karr and the Pacific Symphony. Recorded by Gary Karr, Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, Cybelia CD CY-1106.

Robert Sieving's arrangement of Allegro for Double Strings by Antonio Vivaldi, RV593, originally a motet featuring the vocal settingof Psalm 69 for soprano, 2 oboes, 2 SATB choirs, and double string o...

Dedicated to the people of Ukraine.

This work,Expressions, began as an idea by Music Director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, to create an artistic work that puts to music the poetry of Sierra Leone, a winner of th...

The solo violoncello and piano work on which this orchestration based is the sixteenth set of an ongoing cycle of Persian folk songs that Reza Vali has been composing since 1978. That piece was writte...

This work, written for guitarist Isaac Bustos, was premiered on March 7, 2019 at the Moores Opera House in Houston with the Moores Symphony Orchestra.