Rabbi for fixed media was completed 15 years ago. This work revisits the image of a Rabbi with new insights and sound modification potential. When I listen to a Rabbi reading in Hebrew that is part of the ritual I  do not understand the Hebrews word but still take comfort in their implied meaning.  I listen for moments when the Rabbi speaks in English and hold on to these words.

ultimately, Rabbi Revisited is intended is a standalone fixed media piece or as part of a Video or dance performance.
 Upon the death of a parent a child is to go to the synagogue to say the Kaddish for a year. For whatever reason I could not do this when my father died  and have felt this is a painful loss all of my life. Tikvah, a one hour and thirty minute  chamber oratorio composed by me ends with a a declaration of the Kaddish, a way for me to finally properly mourn my father's death. . Rabbi Revisited is yet another way for me to properly mourn my father's death by featuring a reading of the Kaddish in both Hebrew and English.

Rabbi Revisited for fixed media

2019
flute, Bb clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano

Mantras for chamber ensemble

Just Dances for tenor saxophone and marimba
Burton Beerman-composer
Bobby Streng-tenor saxophone
Izzy Huang Streng-marimba
   movt I sassy dance
   movt II yodeling and jassing
   movt III Jig
score and parts are available from the American Composers Alliance
www.composers.com

Just Dances

two channel digital media inteded as two track audio alone or to accompany video or dance.

Soliloquy 1 for fixed media

for orchestra and solo clarinet
richard stolzman-solo clarinet
warsaw philharmonia

score and parts is available from the American Composers Alliance
www.composers.com

Morning Calls.WAV

for solo clarinet
burton beerman-clarinet
movements
I for barney
II devil’s music
iii dreaming
iv  klezmer
v morning scene



Evening Songs

each trope for the two flutes is accompanied by its own digital audio 
track and is started with each trope, but not be exactly started together.
The postlude for two flutes is not accompanied by a digital track.
trope four-barn dance
postlude-now I lay my head down to sleep

Four Tropes For Two Flutes And Digital Audio Track

completed feb 19, 2024
This is a realization using Noteperformerf 3.
texts:
Fields of grass
Whistle 
Tiny pearls
Of hungry bugs
 munch

Still, I Have no wants
But, for this moment
And the grace
That is ours

Dancing in moonlight
The running water
Makes love
Calmly whispering

From the Pain of survival
A Kinder
More gentler soul
Cries to be nutured

Here and Now for soprano voice and piano

entrance music for Bb clarinet and piano

happy music for twelve instruments

seven movements
prelude
overture
the camps
klezmer
elegy
the marriage
postlude

orchestra, chorus, soprano voice, soprano sas

Tikvah Orchestral Suite

art songs for solo piano

1. dancing in moonlight
2. fields of grass
         instrumental interlude
3. the pounding, harsh rain
4. a blustery sun
        interlude two
5. ants dance
6. from the pain
7. it's more difficult
8. still, I have no wants
9. I have no need for money
     postlude

Haiku for soprano voice and alto sax

Duets for flute and clarinet

Gestures for string quartet 2024

movement I
movement II
III Mother Earth
     this movement includes soprano voice

Never Forget for orchestra

2024
Bb clarinet, piano, violin, viola, violoncello

cl quintet

primal murmurs

Recollections Of Gifts

NEVER FORGET for orchestra 
2020
Movement One: The Power of the Human Spirit
Piccolo
2 flutes
2 oboes 
2 Bb clarinets
2 bassoons
4 horns in F
2 trumpets in Bb
2 trombones
Solo violin 
     This is assumed to be the concertmaster playing from the concertmaster’s chair
     and not standing in front as a soloist
violins I
violins II
violas
violoncellos

Movement Two: Choice To Live
Add timpani to the ensemble

Movement Three: III: Resilience of Mother Earth
Add timpani, percussion (two suspended cymbals and timpani) 
And soprano voice to the ensemble
Includes contrabass

score and parts is available from the American Composers Alliance
www.composers.com

NEVER FORGET For Orchestra

duorama duo
score and parts are available from the American Composers Alliance
www.composers.com

Gifts for violin, piano and dance

Burton Beerman-clarinet
analog electronic music 
polygraph series-works for instrument(s) and fixed analog media
1970-1985

Polygraph III for clarinet and fixed media

3 movements
score and parts are available from the American Composers Alliance
www.composers.com

Invisible Images for vl, vc, percussion, piano and fixed electronic media

Martha K. Cooper Orchestral Music Prize
Bowling Green State University Orchestra-Emil Raab/conductor
premiere was given by the Columbus Symphony- Ohio
score and parts are available from the American Composers Alliance
www.composers.com

Moments 1968 For Orchestra

Electronic Tone Poem
	1. ancient castles
	2. credo
	3. longing
	4. remembering
	5. righteous moments
	6. song cycle for tape alone
	7. waterlilies

electronic tone poem movt II. Credo

violin I
viol,in II
viola
violoncello
organized in 7 short movements
the title is taken from use of short fragments or gestures as its 
organizing component

Gestures For String Quartet

Distinguished Artist Professor (music composition) emeritus
Bowling Green State University
composer-clarinetist

burton beerman

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