Manhattan Beach Music

Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians, a group of early French colonists who began settling in Acadia (now Nova Scotia) around 1604. In 1755 they were driven out by the British, eventually resettling...

Bei meiner Vertonung von "Shenandoah" ließ ich mich von der Freiheit und Schönheit der Volksmelodie und von den Naturbildern inspirieren, die der Text heraufbeschwört, insbesondere von dem Bild eines...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND At the time in Scottish history when 'Loch Lomond' was a new song, the United Kingdom (which united Scotland, England, and Wales) had already been formed. But the Highland Scots...

A'bracadabra' was composed in the summer of 2004, and was orchestrated the following November during a residency at the MacDowell Colony. The piece is dedicated to my son, and is at once playful and s...

Grades 5 & 6 - (Mvt. 1 & 2 Gr. 6; Mvt. 3 Gr. 5. May be played separately.) Movement titles: 1. Shooting Stars; 2. Dreams Under a New Moon;3. Apollo Unleashed

THE SHAKERS The Shakers were a religious sect who splintered from a Quaker community in the mid-1700's in Manchester, England. Known then derisively as 'Shaking Quakers' because of the passionate shak...

Program Notes POSTCARD was commissioned by my friend, colleague, and former mentor, H. Robert Reynolds, in memory of his mother, Ethel Virginia Curry. He requested that I compose not an elegy commemor...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Composed in June 1973, 'The Headless Horseman 'was first performed in July 1973 by the Manasquan (New Jersey) Summer School Concert Band. The score was subsequently revised and engraved in 1980 under...

Frank Ticheli Composition Contest Winner

Das in den USA äußerst beliebte Unterrichtswerk "Making Music Matter" für Bläserklassen, Einzel- und Gruppenunterricht von Frank Ticheli und Gregory B. Rudgers ist ab sofort vollständig (Band 1 und 2)...

In my setting of 'Shenandoah' I was inspired by the freedom and beauty of the folk melody and by the natural images evoked by the words, especially the image of a river. I was less concerned with the...

I wanted my setting of AMAZING GRACE to reflect the powerful simplicity of the words and melody - to be sincere, to be direct, to be honest - and not through the use of novel harmonies and clever tric...