Score-Walter Piston's Three New England Sketches for Symphony Orchestra.Commissioned by the Worcester County Musical Association. First performed on October 23 1959 by Detroit Symphony Orchestra atthe Worcester (Mass.) Music Festival Paul Paray Conducting.Instrumentation:Piccolo2 Flutes2 OboesEnglish Horn2 Clarinets In BbBass Clarinet2 BassoonsContrabassoon4 Horns In F3Trumpets In C (Parts in Bb)3 TrombonesTubaTimpaniPercussion (Snare Drum Bass Drum Cymbals Susp. Cymbal Triangle Tam-tam Glockenspiel Tambourine Wood Block)2 HarpsStrings

Score-Written for orchestra. Full score. Awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Commissioned in 1993 by the Louisville Orchestra. Parts available on rental. Duration: ca. 15 minutes.

For Narrator Baritone Solo Chorus and Orchestra.-For narrator baritone solo chorus and orchestra.

Score-John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra' that emerged as an offshootof the composer's 1986 political opera 'Nixon in China'. It has become one of the composer's most popular works. In this piece from the third act of the Opera protocol and ceremony are forgotten as the audience is ledinto the apparent privacy of the characters' bedrooms to hear their intimate discussions. Each sings of his or her current personal concerns while at some level the couples (Dick and Pat Chairman and Madam Mao) connect with eachother on the emotional plane of nostalgia. The Nixons reminisce about their early pre-public married lives. The Maos look back to their youthful idealism and budding romance and foxtrot together to the wistful tune that formsthe basis of this composition. The chugging and coloristic flashes that begin the work give way to the dance theme proper in the strings. The work 'runs out' instead of ending in imitation of the hand-wound gramophone which hadaccompanied the dancing of the Maos in earlier happier times.First performed in January 1986 by the Milwaukee Smphony Orchestra the piece was commissioned by the National Endowment For The Arts.

Score-Alan Hovhaness' Prelude and Quadruple Fugue for Orchestra. Full score.This work is dedicated to Dr. Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra for the 25th anniversary of theFestival of American Music 1955.

Study Score-The Concerto for Orchestra consists of four separate ensembles using four distinct styles of music. This work exploits the small scale tactics of the string quartets in a much larger and timbrally and texturally diverse ensemble adding an even more complex and intense aspect to Carter's stylistic traits.

Score-Work for Orchestra commssioned in 1969 by the New York Philharmonic. Revised edition completed in 1988.

Score-Wallingford Riegger's Music For Orchestra Op. 50.Instrumentation:3 Flutes (III. also Piccolo)2 OboesEnglish Horn2 Clarinets in Bb2 BassoonsContra Bassoon4Horns3 Trumpets3 TrombonesTubaTimpaniPercussion (Snare Drum Cymbals Bass Drum)

Score-Carter’s Variations for Orchestra is an astonishing work from 1956. There are ten variations many of them of clearly identifiable character some in tricky in-between places each of them displaying different resources of orchestral colour and virtuosity.

Score-Henry Cowell's Seven Rituals Of Man uses music to explore the journey of Man from Birth to Death similar to the All the world’s a stage monologue from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Symphony No.11 reflects the work and struggle love dance and play mystical imagination and lament for death all the stages of a man's life. The seven rituals are all very different and alternate between relatively conventional scoring for strings and winds and some really unusual writing for full orchestra with extensive percussion.

Acclaimed American composer Wallingford Riegger wrote Dance Rhythms in 1954 originally for orchestra but then adapted it himself for band. Noted for its light-hearted mood and energy it is an impressive study in rhythm andorchestration. This important work for band is available now again.

StudyScore-Carson Kievman's Hollowangels for Chamber or Symphony Orchestra. Score.