Dennis Leogrande

These eight solos provide the beginning cellist with a variety of musical styles, time signatures, bowings, and rhythms while staying in the first position. Open string and first finger double stops,...

Reeling from the horror of September 11, Dennis, like all Americans, sought a way to respond to the unthinkable. Words obviously failed; so did anger. Acting on the belief that the creative spirit tra...

The melding of the influences of three generations. I've long been impressed by the melodic and harmonic styles of jazz icons Marian McPartland and Dave Brubeck and always believed that a well constru...