This exciting new edition includes every piano rag written by William Bolcom and matches the recording by John Murphy. There are 22 compositions, including: Eubie's Lucky Day - Graceful Ghost Rag - Th...
A fantastic new adaptation of a popular piano solo piece by the Pulitzer-prize winning composer William Bolcom - a perfect recital piece!
The Garden of Eden was originally published in its solo piano version in 1974. The four rags that make up the suite - Old Adam, The Eternal Feminine, The Serpent's Kiss and Through Eden's Gates - tell...
The chalumeau was a 17th-century woodwind instrument which evolved into the modern day clarinet. The term chalumeau refers to the lowest range of the clarinet.
Previously available in separate volumes, the original 24 Cabaret Songs have been collected together for the first time in this new complete edition. Includes bios, notes from the composer, and Weinst...
Conceived for a French-style harpsichord with two manuals. With detailed performance notes. In nine movements.
This is a collection of 12 songs primarily for the classical singer to perform in recital with piano accompaniment. The songs are in a medium voice range, and could probably be performed by any voice...
A 23 minute song cycle based on poems of American women poets, commissioned for Marilyn Horne in honor of the Carnegie Hall Centennial. Also recorded by Miss Horne.
Cole Porter's only attempt at a serious composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde. Both pieces w...
Winner of the 1988 Pulizter Prize.
For Violin and Viola
Arrangements of three of Bolcom's famous piano rags: Poltergeist, Graceful Ghost, and Incineratorag.
For Violoncello and Piano
William Bolcom wrote this beautiful piece for Theodor and Evelyn Jacobsen. He describes it as leisurely, calm, with great smoothness and repose.
A View from the Bridge, with a libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller, is a faithful adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Set in the Sicilian-American community of 1950s Brooklyn, this story...
Composed in memory of Bolcom's former teacher, Darius Milhaud, this piece can be played as an introduction to another piece, or as 'bookends' for a group of small works. For two pianists at one piano.
Bolcom composed these easy piano pieces for his wife to play in her piano lessons. They are accessible to beginner and intermediate level pianists of all ages.
Bolcom used the musical papers and sketches from the late William Albright as the basis for this composition, which serves as a memorial to Albright. It was commissioned by the American Guild of Organ...
This edition for advanced organists corrects and combines all of Bolcom's gospel preludes. Includes new program notes.
This work is written for two keyboard players at two pianos, a harmonium and a harpsichord. Includes performance and historical notes by the composer.
The four melodies - Hinei Mah Tov, Yism'chu, Hal'luhu and Sim Shalom - are included with text at the beginning of the book. These organ preludes were commissioned by the Tangeman Sacred Music Center o...
Der amerikanische Komponist William Bolcom schrieb eines seiner bekanntesten Stücke - das wunderschöne und melancholische 'Graceful Ghost' - in Erinnerung an seinen Vater. Auch wenn Ragtimes kaum in M...
Commissioned and premiered by the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, conducted by Paul Rardin for its 150th-anniversary celebration. This piece is a 10-minute cycle for men's chorus and piano fea...
William Bolcom's oratorio, premiered in 1984, is based on writings of William Blake. The piece is enormous in its scale, requiring hundreds of performers, and was recorded for a Naxos release, conduct...
A celebration of American social progress, Lady Liberty is dedicated to President Barack Obama. ca. 5 minutes.
William Bolcom composed both words and music for these urban madrigals, written for The Western Wind a cappella group in 1970. Each madrigal depicts a slice of New York City life in the early 1970's,...
Pulitzer prize-winning composer William Bolcom wrote this choral anthem for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Bicentennial. Based on Emerson's famous text, Bolcom's originality and musicality shine through.
The Mask is a cycle of five poems by various authors set to music and arranged for SATB chorus and piano accompaniment. Composed in 1990 by William Bolcom, these settings present a challenge to both t...
Written for the New York Concert Singers and their conductor Judith Clurman, this compelling work on the single word Alleluia begins in a quiet staggered aleatoric fashion, gradually growing into a dr...
William Bolcom's work is challenging, awe-inspiring and always provocative. This substantial work, commissioned by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus with a text by Bolcom's frequent librettist Arnold...
Commissioned by the Piedmont Chamber Singers of Winston-Salem, NC in honor of its 30th anniversary, Four Piedmont Choruses are settings of the four moody poems by North Carolina poet laureate Kathryn...
For Medium Voice and Piano. Another Outstanding collection of theatre-poetry-lieder-pop-tavernacular prayer called cabaret song. Texts by Arnold Weinstein. Contents: Angels Are the Highest Form of Vir...
Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America for its 2013 competition, Aria received its premiere at the GFA conference in Louisville, Kentucky on June 30, 2013. Edited by Michael Lorimer.
Cello and Piano.
William Bolcom's Trombone Concerto was premiered by the New York Philharmonic with Joseph Alessi as soloist. Since then the composer has also added a band transcription, so the concerto may be played...
First performed in 1979 at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. by Jazz Violinist Sergiu Luca and the composer at piano. The Sonata is in four movements: Summer Dreams, Brutal-fast, Adagio, and...
Commissioned by Music Associates of Aspen and The Martin and Deborah Flug Foundation. Duration ca. 17 Minutes.
This concerto in three movements by one of today's greatest composers is now available for violin and piano. Includes program notes by Bolcom. Duration ca. 20 minutes.
The recent release of Bolcom's first and fourth violin sonatas marks the first time all four of these great works are available. Performers, teachers and student violinists will include these in their...
Sheet Music.
An arrangement of six Robert Schumann piano pieces for saxophone quartet, premiered by the PRISM Quartet in 2016.
This piece (1998), originally for alto saxophone and concert band, was written specifically for the University of Michigan Symphony Band and the famed professor of saxophone Donald J. Sinta. It was co...
Adapted from the well-known piano composition Graceful Ghost Rag, here is William Bolcom's own very elegant and effective version for symphonic band. Written in a moderate ragtime tempo, this work uti...
