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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

HOWL (1986), for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble
- by Michael Schelle

Commissioned and premiered by the Ronen Chamber Ensemble, David Bellman, clarinet.

A tribute to two of my favorite arts icons: 
- swing clarinetist Benny Goodman, and beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Written following the death (1986)of Benny Goodman, and celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's iconic beat classic "HOWL", this 'strange bedfellows' piece fuses two disparate sources into a reverse musical journey. Beginning stylistically in the 1980's, the piece gradually moves back in time thru a smokey 1950's/60's beatnik coffee house, and ends in a 1940's Greenwich Village swing frenzy ... bis bis.

HOWL is in three sections:
1. 00:00 - 6:20 ... the opening
2. 06:20 - 8:00 ... spoken excerpts of "Howl", set against a smokey 1950's coffee house atmosphere, and
3. 08:00 - the end ... completely notated bebop Benny Goodman homage

Built-in (written in / notated) encore begins at 11:50
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HOWL has been performed many times across the US, including XTET (Los Angeles), the Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (NYC), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Eastman New Music Ensemble, and the University of Texas-Austin New Music Ensemble. 

Ginsberg himself gave me permission to use the few brief spoken excerpts. One of the most incredible performances happened in 1991, when Ginsberg himself joined an ensemble (conducted by me) and played the newly added 'for this one performance only' mini-improv bits on a conga drum and his little concertina accordion !!  - and we have the program and photos to prove it!!

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HOWL (1986), for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble

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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HOWL (1986), for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble

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