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Chant of the machines für Kammerensemble und Live-Elektronik
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Ensemble Differance, Norbert Kleinschmidt
www.frank-zabel.de

Frank Zabel: Chant Of The Machines für Kammerensemble und Live-Elektronik

EL SALON MEDICO (1976)
- by Michael Schelle

MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA
Sir Neville Marriner, music director and conductor

N.B.: this recording rescued just in time from an old 1/4 track reel-to-reel tape that was disintegrating!! - the sound quality here is not the greatest stereo high fidelity, for sure ... 
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Written near the end of my studies with Aaron Copland (and intentionally imitating his iconic Americana style of "Billy the Kid" and "Appalachian Spring"), EL SALON MEDICO was my 2nd orchestral piece and dedicated to my brother Patrick (who was beginning his surgery residency at a large Dallas hospital).

This brief piece proved to be a 'one-shot-deal' in this Americana style, and was in NO WAY the harbinger of things to come for me (stylistically), - not by a long shot !! But it was a blast to work on it under the guidance of the great man. It was a thrill, and and honor, to have worked with Copland for nearly 18 months.
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My friend, Pittsburgh composer David Stock, upon hearing the Minnesota Orchestra radio broadcast of EL SALON MEDICO (the title is, of course, a play on the Copland "El Salon Mexico") called me immediately after it ended and said:  "Schelle, dammit !!  So I'm listening to this piece on the radio and I'm thinking 'wait, I thought I knew every Copland orchestral piece there is, but I don't know this, but clearly it IS Copland, or it's a pretty good rip off".
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Another dear friend, Columbus (OH) composer Rocky Reuter, arranged a fantastic wind ensemble version of the piece, just because he 'thought it would be a cool band piece' - and surprized me out of the blue with the score. Now THAT'S true friendship (or complete insanity). The Reuter wind ensemble version has been performed numerous times by university band across the US.
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EL SALON MEDICO (1976) for orchestra

Woodsmithery (2023) for Concert Band by Coleman Rowlett

Copyright 2023 Coleman Rowlett. All Rights Reserved.

Woodsmithery

Michael Schelle

FEAR STRIKES OUT (2015), for trombone and wind ensemble

Millikin University (IL) Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Mark Babbitt, trombone
Gary Shaw, conductor

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMuKNXVENq0&list=PLbnlz2uecZDNvdfPDDsnv-Pww0KUdov1J&index=1

Schelle website:   www.schellemusic.com

FEAR STRIKES OUT (2015)

XANADU was commissioned by The Florida State University College of Music for the grand reopening of the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall and the 100th anniversary of the College of Music. XANADU is a work inspired by the 80’s, the era in which the composer attended Florida State University as an undergraduate performance and composition major. Like this composition, the 80’s movie with the same title is inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem was an opium-influenced dream describing a stately palace. This work is influenced by 80’s hip-hop culture, TV themes and other pop culture music of the late 70’s-80’s. The first three notes of the 80’s song Xanadu play an important thematic role in the work. This work also has an optional Turntablist (DJ record scratching) part for the percussion.

XANADU (Wind Ensemvle Level 6)

Submarinul Iertat (Forgiven Submarine)
a tone-poem based on poetry by Andrei Codrescu & Ruxandra Cesereanu

Performed by Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra; Ben Manis, conductor

Nov 30, 2018

Submarinul Iertat (Forgiven Submarine)- for large orchestra

Komorebi: tree escape light_ii_Earth bed _Sasaki_Premiere_Music By Women Festival

El Puente (2015)

- for bassoon and piano

Lia Uribe, bassoon
Miroslava Panayotova, piano

www.sasakimusic.com

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Miho Sasaki : El Puente

Piano Quintet Movement III

Miho Sasaki 

Swirling Spheres (2021)

for the Thomas Piercy Quintet
Premiere:  NYC 31 March 2021

www.sasakimusic.com

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EL SALON MEDICO (1976) for orchestra

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