After having posted the Trumpet Sonata, I thought I'd post a piece written for my chosen instrument - the trombone - in my case, bass trombone.
Taking inspiration from R. Schumann's Concert Piece for 4 French Horns, (rarely performed because of its di
Read more…This is a piece written and dedicated to my roommate at the Oberlin Conservatory, Rick Pressley. Rick spent his professional career as the Seattle Symphony's co-principal trumpet. He did perform this piece and did a great job, but the performance was
Read more…I just posted a playlist of this three movement piece, but I can't see how anyone could find it to listen on this site. So, I'm bringing it up here as well. (If you know how to find a playlist, it is on this site.) A brief description:
The 1852 journe
Read more…Hello Folks,
After posting a wind band piece about a month ago, and receiving zero feed-back, I guess there are three possibilities:
- no one is interested in band music;
- you didn't like the piece, but are too polite to say so;
- you liked it, but had
Read more…After having posted orchestral works in the year past, I thought perhaps a change-up to band music was appropriate to start the new. The piece is called Triplicity, and as you might expect it is in three movements: 1. Ragtime March, 2. Reflections, 3
Read more…Here is a piece I wrote back in 2020 for brass quintet: Prelude and Fugue - (real original title, eh?) While I am certainly not a great "contrapuntalist", I did enjoy writing this one! I hope you will enjoy listening to it as well.
Any thoughts! Thank
Read more…I hope this is not too much too soon, but I'd love to hear from you folks what you think of a piece of mine based on African folk tunes, that I call Come Africa 2. (Yes, there is a Come Africa 1 as well.)
I have enjoyed writing pieces based on old tra
Read more…I am new to Composer's Forum and eager to begin to share my work with other musicians. One of my latest pieces is a new five movement symphony based on our sun's current solar maximum. The five movements are titled: Solar Flares, Solar Corona, Solar
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