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All pieces except the Sonata Movement for Viola and Piano and the Rhapsody Rondo were prepared with Overture notation software and are to the highest standards of clarity. Reasonable page turns have been provided for in the parts whenever possible.
American Reflections:
The Girls Preparatory School Suite is a four-movement work for string orchestra. It is suitable for high school to professional musicians. The principle 1st violin, 2nd violin, and viola have short solo passages. The principle ‘cello has a more prominent solo. All sections have melodic passages. (video sample)
TT: 19 minutes
Movement 1. Prelude and Allegro
Rhapsody Rondo is a one-movement work for string orchestra that demonstrates most of the traditional sounds strings can make. It was set with Electronic Arts now ancient Deluxe Music Construction Set, but it is legible, just rather restricted in notational flexibility. Rhapsody Rondo alternates a bit between Slavic and Germanic melodic styles and has proved to be very pleasing for pops audiences.
TT: 7:30 minutes (video sample) (audio track)
Elegy for Strings—November 1963 is a single-movement work for string orchestra sketched immediately before and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In addition to performances memorializing JFK, the Elegy has also been performed in the US and Ukraine to memorialize the victims of Chernobyl. All sections except the double basses have melodic passages, and the double basses have significant passages with the ‘celli.
TT: 13 minutes (score sample) (audio track)
A Picture Symphony for Strings in D Minor is a four-movement descriptive work in traditional forms for string orchestra. The Finale can be performed alone and is suitable for pops concerts. All sections have melodic passages.
TT: 25 minutes (video sample)
Movement 2. Romanza—Starry Night
Movement 3. Scherzo—Butterflies & Wildflowers
Movement 4. Finale—Country Idyll—Variations & Theme
Froggy is set for SATB chorus, piano, clarinet in A, and strings. It is based on the American children’s song “Froggie Went a’Courting” and the English satire song “The Frog and the Mouse.”
TT: 7 minutes (video sample) (audio track)
Light and Shadow:
3 Panoramas—Memories of Japan is a three-movement work for string orchestra based on impressions of Japan at the height of its post-war recovery. All sections have melodic passages. The movements may be performed individually.
TT: 18-19 minutes (video sample)
Movement 1. Dawn to Dawn: City Life
Movement 2. Nocturne: Mountains and Seas by Moonlight
Movement 3: Beppu no Jigoku: The Hells of Beppu
Atridae—The House of Atreus is a one-movement concert overture for full orchestra (2, 2 , Cor Ang., 2, Bass Clar., 2, 4, 2, 3, Tuba, Timpani, 3 Perc., Strings). It is more like Tchaikovsky’s overture-fantasies than Strauss’s tone poems.
TT: 16 minutes (audio track) (video sample)
Sonata Movement for Viola and Piano was set with Electronic Arts now ancient Deluxe Music Construction Set, but it is legible, just very restricted in notational flexibility. This music is about as “modern” as I get, but there is still a grand melody in addition to the more angular stuff.
TT: 5 minutes (audio track) (video sample)
Lux et Umbra—Scenes for Organ and Strings is a one-movement work for organ and chamber strings (4, 4, 3, 2, 1 – adjustable according to circumstances) with six clearly delineated scenes – variations – played without pause. Lux et Umbra was composed as a concert piece, but it is also suitable for church and temple performances.
TT: 12-13 minutes (audio track) (video sample)
Rhapsody on Jewish Folk Melodies is an arrangement of Eastern European melodies for strings and harp. The melodies tell a simple story reflecting Jewish life in the Old World. The concertmaster and principal second violin and viola have solo roles, and the harp plays a prominent role, including a few special effects.
TT: 15 minutes (audio track)
An Overture for Hanukkah is based on melodies appropriate to the Hanukkah season. It is a concert overture for full orchestra, including harp and vibraphone, and the melodies are treated in symphonic style rather than as a series of song arrangements. An Overture for Hanukkah has received numerous performances by American symphony orchestras after the BSO performance was posted to YouTube.
TT: 6 to 7 minutes (audio track) (video sample)