Name: Candlelight and Catnip (2025) by Amanda S.
Duration: 4 min 24 s
Description: string quartet

GIMME SHELTER (2001) by Michael Schelle

Many American composers have a 9/11 piece ... this is mine.

Genki Saji, violin
Ryoto Hibi, piano
Nagoya, Japan
November 2010

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Michael Schelle's website:  http://schellemusic.com/1.html

GIMME SHELTER (2001) for violin and piano

GUTTERSNIPE (1994)
for large symphonic wind ensemble
by Michael Schelle

Commissioned by the 
Capital University (OH) Conservatory of Music 
for NOW Festival 1995
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Michael Schelle's website: http://schellemusic.com/1.html

GUTTERSNIPE (1994) for wind ensemble

BLAST (1992) for orchestra
- by Michael Schelle

Commissioned for the 75th anniversary season of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. They all wanted an exciting celebratory piece, but with one stipulation (and I quote) "we know your music, Mike, it's very wild and crazy. We only ask that you please put some kind of nice melody in there somewhere ...".

This is the premiere of the revised version of BLAST .. without the damn tune !! 

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
October, 1994
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The original version of BLAST (exact same piece, but with the damn tune in the middle) also exists, and can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/rimsky-1/michael-schelle-blast-1992-for
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Visit: www.schellemusic.com

BLAST (1992) for orchestra

A fun four-minute quartet, based on quartal harmonies - some theatre is involved, and a wistful viola solo is featured in the third movement, composed especially for Eric Peterson, violist of the Loring String Quartet - commissioned by the Loring String Quartet.

String Quartet No. 4

Earthworks was commissioned and composed by Indianapolis dance company Dance Kaleidoscope to be part of a full evening set of modern dance pieces titled 'The Four Elements."  My portion was to be the 'earth' segment, composed using electronic means.  The separate pieces are by turns volcanic, massive, intimate, yearning, celebratory, humorous, quiet, dark, obdurate, and victorious.  A video of the danced production by Dance Kaleidoscope can be found on YouTube.

Vox Humanae

Metalworkz

Six electronic etudes that are all nervous in nature - by turns busy, dynamic, odd, twerkish, withdrawn, delicate. fragile, stewing, explosive.....  nervous.  Very nervous.  Available on the Ravello Records release of "Sidewalk Music" on iTunes and Amazon.com

Wait

Candlelight and Catnip (2025)

Golden Slumbers

Tempus Fugit (Plymouth Symphony Orchestra)

Normative Climate Migration soundscape + acrostic poems over "Become Ocean" by John Luther Adams.

Candlelight and Catnip (2025)

Amanda S.

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