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Dripples

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

SWASHBUCKLER (1984)
- by Michael Schelle

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Raymond Harvey, conductor
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SWASHBUCKLER was originally written on a dare from one of my graduate composition students - a fella who insisted I only appreciated (and wrote) avant garde / experimental contemporary / new music. As I had the Buffalo Phil commission contract sitting on my desk at the time, I thought this might be the perfect opportunity to prove the student wrong, and to expand my catalogue with something different.

Quickly, the piece transcended the casual well-intentioned challenge, and became a sincere, genuine and respectful homage to the great swashbuckling film scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Co., and to the quintessential movie stars of the classic 1930's Hollywood swashbuckler blockbusters I so dearly loved ("Captain Blood", "The Sea Hawk", etc. - Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone).  There's heroic music, action music, lugubrious night-sailing music, even a tortured 'love theme' in the middle of all the action ... a tip of the hat the great swashbuckling femme fatale, Olivia de Havilland.

Commissioned and premiered by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, this recording is the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (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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Peformed more regularly than I'd ever expected, this season the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra has SWASHBUCKLER on their May 2014 Subscription Series program.... coupled w/ Beethoven's 9th !! http://daytonperformingarts.org/content.jsp?articleId=3223
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SWASHBUCKLER (1984) 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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SWASHBUCKLER (1984) for orchestra

Michael Schelle

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