Battle Cry Of Freedom
SDGS 951 6’ $75.00
Symphonic Band (Piccolo/Flute; Oboe; Clarinet; Alto, Tenor and Baritone Sax; Bassoon; Trumpet; French Horn; Trombone; Euphonium; Tuba; String Bass; Timpani; Percussion)

An exciting setting of the famous Civil War tune by George F. Root. Much original material is mixed in the setting which offers stunning wind writing in combination with powerful brass and percussion ensemble work. This setting for symphonic band was commissioned and recorded by Lieutenant Colonel Craig D. Jessop and the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command Heartland of America Band. Battle Cry of Freedom miniature score is available on request.

Chamber Concerto for Organ, Winds, Percussion and Strings
SDG 04-201 26’ RENTAL
Flute, Oboe, Percussion I-IV, Timpani,
Organ, Strings

Chamber Concerto for Organ, Winds, Percussion, Timpani, and Strings was commissioned in 2003 by organist John Friesen and St. Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln, NE In three movements of equal length, the concerto is written in a “Handelian” style with active interplay between the organ and the orchestral forces. The outer movements are energized with many asymmetric, dance rhythms; the contrasting middle movement is a gentle “Amazing Grace Fantasy”.
Please contact Masters Music for information on rental of conductor’s score and parts. Organ part and conductor’s score also available separately.

Conversations for Harp and Chamber Orchestra
SDG 03-204 21’ RENTAL
Flute, Oboe, Percussion I-III, Timpani,
Harp, Strings

Conversations for Harp and Chamber Orchestra was written as a surprise gift for Kathy Bundock Moore, exquisite concert harpist and dear friend. Using the harp in an untraditional role, I chose to use a smaller orchestra and to engage the solo instrument in dialog, or “conversations” with the orchestral instruments. The work is in two movements, each having short cadenzas underscored by the orchestra.

Please contact Masters Music for information on rental of conductor’s score and parts. Harp part and conductor’s score also available separately.

Crucifixus for Orchestra
SDGS 01-202 (Instrumental) Flute; Oboe English Horn; Brass (2221); Timpani; and Strings 11’

Instrumental version of the choral and orchestra work. Brass section replaces the choral parts of the original version. Please contact the publisher for information on rental of conductor’s score and parts.

Earth Voices
SDGS 944 $20.00
Piano Quintet (B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Piano) 13’ 44 pgs.

Earth Voices is the composer’s piano quintet version of the song cycle, Voices from the Earth. In this iteration, the original vocal lines are expanded and modified throughout in a soloistic manner by the violin.

Elegy For A Memory

Fantasy On “Amazing Grace”
SDG 05-202 8’ Rental
Solo Violoncello and Chamber Orchestra

Based on the middle movement of his Organ Concerto, this pensive and beautiful work for cello and orchestra is dedicated to the composer’s lifelong friend, cellist David Low.

A multi-movement “tour de force” for flute, oboe, bassoon, and piano, INGs is highly descriptive and expressionistic. The title is derived from the numerous shorter movements which make up the piece: “Reminiscing,” “Counting and Dancing,” “Mourning,” “Building,” “Morphing,” “Caressing and Sighing,” “Waiting,” and “Dancing and Counting.” Written with a full understanding of solo and ensemble players, INGs is replete with beautiful melody, exciting and driving rhythms, shifting dance meters, and intriguing harmonic structure.

Piano Trio Kassarjian
SDGS 975 $15.00
Violin, Violoncello, Piano 10.5’ 20 pgs.

Piano Trio Kassarjian is inspired by the composer’s choral work In Memoriam: Kassarjian. The original choral work is very “instrumental” in nature and translates beautifully into the piano trio form. A former choral cadenza becomes, in the string trio, a cadenza for the two string instruments. Overall, the work is a mixture of highly emotional, lyrical writing combined with tour de force 20th Century rhythmic writing between the three instruments.

Seaside Sweets
SDG 2000-2 $35.00
Piano Quintet (B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano) 22’ 68 pgs.
Use Cape May Preludes Sound FX CD
SDG 99-204CD $15.00

A setting of the nine Cape May Preludes for Piano Quintet. The entire set may be performed in combination with sound FX including the Atlantic Ocean, Seagulls and 3 sets of beautiful wind chimes.

Titles: Sunday Morning Fire
Bernadette’s Salsa Egg Dish • Jazz’s Blues
One-six-three Jig • Full Count • Irish Fiddler’s Dance • Night Shore Fog • Late Night Embers Sunrise at Colvmns By The Sea

Silver Winds In The Night
SDGS 01-200 $22.50
Flute Orchestra (Flute 1-2, Alto Flute 1-2, Bass Flute 1-2, Harp (or Piano), Percussion, Double Bass)’ 6’

This work was commissioned in late 1999 by Nancy Spidel for the Colorado Silver Winds Flute Orchestra. It is loosely based on the composer’s choral setting of Silent Night which appears under the title of Still, Still Night in the Walton Music catalog.

Solomon Quintet
SDGS 976 $15.00
Solo B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Piano (opt. handbells) 4.5’ 20 pgs.

The Solomon Quintet is an instrumental adaptation of Jackson Berkey’s solo soprano song, For This, I Love You. The original vocal line is expanded for solo clarinet. The work opens with very delicate string and piano writing which supplies an ethereal foundation for the solo clarinet. A slight change of tempo adds the possibility of handbells. The clarinet soars as the instruments reach their apex, only to release their tension to a closing section which features the absence of the solo clarinet. The clarinet enters in the last phrase to bring Solomon to a quiet end. The Solomon Quintet is dedicated to clarinetist Kathryn Pirtle and the Orion Ensemble of Chicago, Illinois.