This playlist draws from the UMKC Music/Media Library Shining A Light Online Exhibit, a collection-building initiative to increase the depth and availability of music by composers from under-represented groups for the UMKC population and beyond.
https://exhibits.library.umkc.edu/s/shining-a-light/page/home

Shining A Light Playlist

Marcos Balter - ignis fatuus (excerpt)

Marcos Balter - Intercepting a Shivery Light (excerpt)

This is a recording of the revised version. It was premiered by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), conducted by Gil Rose with Chien-Kwan Lin as the soloist, in Jordan Hall, Boston on March 28, 2014.

Lei Liang - Xiaoxiang - Saxophone Concerto

Source Code (2013) This one movement work is a kind of dirge, which centers on a melody based on syntax derived from black spirituals.  The melody is continuous and cycles through like a gene strand with which all other textures play.

Performed by the Catalyst Quartet, recorded January 27, 2015
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Source Code, for string quartet from STRUM: Music for Strings

This tracks starts with fast, rolling melodic lines that represent the sound of waves coming to shore.  The middle section is a sultry and slow dance, subtitled "Dance of Seduction".  The sound of the water waves comes back at the end to a dramatic finish.

Transparencia for violin and piano Mvt 1 Arpoador

Detta Danford, alto flute
Natasha Zielazinski, cello
Recorded at St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow, London
December 2015

Marcus Balter, Delete Control Option

Startin' Sumthin'

Jeff Scott: Startin' Sumthin'

Valerie Coleman: Tzigane

Valerie Coleman - Umoja for Wind Quintet

Recording from my Fall 2017 Graduate Recital Dress Rehearsal (Nov. 26, 2017)

Elegy for Innocence - Jeff Scott

I. Icarus Ascending

14 February 2018
ASU Woodwind Area Recital
Ignis Quartet:
Tina Uhrenbacher
Matthew Fox
Seth Hellmann
Morgan Musick

The Flight of Icarus, Stacy Garrop

Live performance of Jeu d'Esprit! Joined by Ali Wright, soprano saxophone.

Jeu d'Esprit - Augusta Read Thomas (Live performance)

Twilight Colors (2007)performed live at Other Minds Festival 15
March 4, 2010
Kanbar Hall, JCCSF

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

Chou Wen-chung: Twilight Colors

World Premiere of "Ash" as performed by the Indiana University Concert Band, Jason H. Nam, conductor

For more information, please visit https://www.jenniferjolley.com/ash

Performed on November 30, 2019. Recorded live for 3MBS Radio, by sound engineer Steve Bullock.

Piazzolla - Libertango (Arr. Jeff Scott)

A World Turned Upside Down

Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano
Lisa Sylvester, piano

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Birthday

Musica Solaris is a piece for brass quintet composed by Lauren Bernofsky.

Musica Solaris

Brass Trio comprised of brass faculty members from the University of North Texas. Stacie Mickens, Horn; Natalie Mannix, trombone; Raquel Samayoa, trumpet

Bernofsky Trio For Brass, mvt 1 & 2

Lei Liang - Five Seasons (excerpt)

Live performance by PUBLIQuartet at Rockwood Music Hall, February 2013