Ensembles

Musique De Chambre - Cuivres : Quintettes

Die ursprünglich von Gabriel Fauré 1887 für Klavier komponierte 'Pavane' - ein spanisch-italienischer Schreittanz - ist wohl besser in seiner Bearbeitung für Chor und Orchester bekannt. Alan Fernie ad...

Murqi Sahar (Persisches Frühlingslied)

In the summer of 1979, I was employed on the Mayan Ranch in Bandera, Texas, located about sixty miles south of San Antonio. It was there that I encountered all of the excitements as well as the hard w...

The Pocono Mountains of northern Pennsylvania have always been a rich source of creative inspiration for me. The basic concepts of many of my works germinated there during quiet weeks spent on vacatio...

Ricochet is a ten minute work for advanced quintet. A gauranteed crowd-pleaser, it is composed of three sections which are loosely associated with the following themes: Ricochet, Repose and Rodeo. Whi...

Judas Maccabaeus was composed in England in the tumultuous year 1746 and was designed as a compliment to the Duke of Cumberland for his victory over the forces of "Bonnie Prince" Charles. The year had...

I chose the title "Improvisation" because of the circumstances in which the piece was written. At the time of receiving the commission by the Loraine Brass Quintet, I was doing quite a lot of travelin...

Instrumentation: Piccolo Trumpet/Flugel Horn, 3 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 2 Trombones, Tuba, Tympani, Snare Drum, Maraccas, Wind Machine, Syspended Cymbol, Cymbals, Tam-tam Heros, a three movement tone-poem...

The Labyrinth fo large brass ensemble was commissioned by Susan Salminen and the Bethany Brass Ensemble at Bethany College in Lindsburg, Kansas. The composer’s conception of the piece came out of a dr...

For Brass Quintet (2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba)

Sparkling, rhythmic dialogue opens out into passages of broad, warm lyricism in Eric Ewazen’s CANTICUM HONORIS AMICORUM. Dedicated to the American Brass Quintet 'past, present, and future,' the music...

A commission by the South Shore Conservatory (Duxbury; MA) led to this exciting fanfare for brass quintet. Says Bernofsky; 'The piece begins with a rather fragmented-sounding opening; and it gradually...