This subtle and moving work calls for a unison choir over a small chamber group. After setting a stark and solemn mood on the piano, fragments of the tune...
A Musical Entertainment
The Pompous Piano is a musical fable for piano, violin, B-flat clarinet, and narrator. Unlike most fables, whose characters are...
Emma Lou Diemer's dramatic Psalm 121 features sweeping scales played by the organ, stately fanfares in the brass and effective swells in the timpani and...
Rebellion is about an urge, not a cause. It is a small portrait of energy, a capsule of the feeling that an urgent need for change is felt or foreseen, and the...
Song of Summer was written for the Interlochen Arts Camp Intermediate Treble Choir, Richard Phelps, director. The composition depicts four aspects of the...
Winner of the 2001 Delius Composition Contest, Time… is a setting of five poems from the writings of Kim Rich.Program NotesWinner of the 2001 Delius...
Tourbillon is French for “whirlwind”. The structure of the piece follows the random appearances of these whirlwinds, twisting and turning and carrying two...
Chamber Symphony No. 4
A fantastic feature for the advanced saxophonist. Utilizing three member of the saxophone family in three contrasting movements, Towers...
Originally written for vibraphone and two marimbas, Trio Passacaglia is based on a repeated four-note motive in the tuba, which is subsequently embellished....
Elements of minimalism and impressionism create a colorful palette that evoke primitive textures in a modern chamber setting. The melodies found in Trio for...
