Elaine Hagenberg

This is one of my favorite chamber pieces. I love that the bassoon is allowed to be so much more than continuo. 'The flute and bassoon are basically in agreement in this piece, ' Gary said. 'And the p...

Water Music allows both flute and horn to soar in this wonderfully melodic composition which would make either a great start or finish to a chamber concert. The piece sounds like the ocean to me and t...

Cherry Blossoms is a neo-romantic canvas that fuses English modal qualities with French post-impressionism; belying the Japanese implications of its title. Schocker uses the string quartet and the two...

September Morn brilliantly captures a cool, crisp fall morning. It is very easy to play, and has Schocker's signature melodic style. For intermediate level players.

The piccolo sings above a string quartet accompaniment in the liquid; melodic; sometimes challenging writing that signifies a Schocker work. For advanced performers.

A set of four short works for tenor voice, flute, and piano from the prolific Gary Schocker focuses on a central theme: fleeting time. Dynamic and melodic in a contemporary sense, Always and Forever c...

The amuse-bouche; not an appetizer; per se; is an offering intended to set the table; prepare the palate; for a main course to follow. In this vein; Schocker's three short tastings will set up a progr...

Schocker's Sextet was written for and dedicated to Jenny Cline (flute) and the Monmouth Winds, who premiered the work in 2014. The Sextet, Cline writes, sounds at times delicate and intimate and at ot...

Popp arranged the most popular music of the early 19th century for this enormously practical mixed ensemble. Great fun for gigs as well.

Five movements of an average of 2 minutes each make up this delightful double quartet. Each movement (Entrance, Haunted Spot, Solitary Flowers, The Bird as Prophet, and Hunter on the Watch) is a self...

English composer Edward Elgar's premise for his Variation on an Original Theme was to musically characterize a dozen of his friends and associates. Each variation is designated by the initials or pseu...

Sammartini wrote a large number of trio sonatas, which would have been performed by two soloists and basso continuo. This setting places the basso continuo part in the flute choir, removing the need f...

This piece is a transcription of a classical orchestral favorite, considered by many to be Mendelssohn's masterpiece. It utilizes the entire range of the flute choir and is a real challenge across all...

Selections from The Nutcracker Suite: March, Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, Dance of the Reed-Flutes. These three popular selections retain the full harmony of the original orchestration, utilizing C...

Edited by Don Bailey This adaptation of Tchaikovsky's November from The Seasons is part of Falls House Press's Voyage Unlimited series, a collection of new transcriptions for flute and string quartet...

This is an arrangement that works well for weddings or receptions, or any of those times when you are doing background music and are tired of the usual 18-19th century fare. The violin part includes q...

The entrancing melodic themes of the young Prince and Princess movement, some of the best that Rimsky-Korsakov ever wrote, are woven into a flute choir arrangement which captures all the grace, beauty...

Part of a rare programmatic work by Beethoven, the Scherzo from his sixth symphony is meant to evoke a festive gathering of peasants. In the original symphony, this movement does not have a clear endi...

The aboriginal name given to the island of Puerto Rico is Borikén. This concerto, which bears the same name, presents to us in its first two movements, 'I. Yocahú and Juracán' and 'II. Ta no Prayer, '...

Music for the Christmas season seems to fall into two categories -- the very popular carols and secular Christmas music, and music which is not widely known. These two chorale preludes offer a wonderf...

Salon Quartet by Mendelssohn. This one is The Wedding March.

Grieg's dramatic incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is some of the most distinctive and memorable music produced by the 19th century Norwegian composer. The two movements arranged for f...