(restless dreams before) THE BIG NIGHT (1989)
 - by Michael Schelle

Commissioned and premiered by the Kansas City Symphony
William McGlaughlin, music director and conductor

Additional funding from the Barlow Foundation (Salt Lake City)

The piece 'tells the story' of the restless, anxious dreams / nightmares (and prayers) of a young violinist the night before her first ever live performance with a major symphony orchestra playing the infamous (and fiendishly difficult) Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto . . . 

 . . . in the end, various mutated Tchaikovsky fragments are fused and confused (from c. 10:00 thru 13:30 .. the violin concerto, Nutcracker, Symphony No. 4, etc.) in a headlong race to the big finish - only to be followed by a dream / trance state coda (accompanied by a secret (until the end) upper balcony choir chanting "good night, sleep tight" ... ).

The 15:00 piece is often programmed w/ the Tchaikovsky concerto, as recently w/ the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the 2014/15 Subscription Series concert season of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Michael Schelle's website: http://schellemusic.com/1.html

THE BIG NIGHT (1989) for orchestra

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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

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

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Miho Sasaki 

Swirling Spheres (2021)

for the Thomas Piercy Quintet
Premiere:  NYC 31 March 2021

www.sasakimusic.com

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