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Snapshots - Catherine Likhuta

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Ephemera (Fransisco Perez)

Nutmeg And Ginger - Spicy Ballads From Shakespeare's London

Packington's Pound - Setting for keyboard by Benjamin Cosyn

Richard Baker - Motet III
For solo tenor saxophone
Performed by Rob Burton

For more details and score: https://www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/motet-iii

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Motet III

Baker - Motet III

"She flies with her own wings" is the state motto of Oregon. With this energetic fanfare, I imagine the hopeful promise and potential of youth, courage, and individualism suggested by these words. Written between 2020-2022, it would be impossible to ignore the tremendous upheaval during that time. Rather, this work celebrates the resilient, irrepressible human spirit to overcome obstacles and search for ever greater heights.

Performed LIVE by Portland Youth Philharmonic, Dec. 26th, 2022, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR.

she flies with her own wings: Fanfare for Orchestra

Bee's Melody by Lord Kitchener

Música Muisca for Chamber Orchestra, Ithaca College Orchestra, Jeffery Meyer, conductor

Música Muisca

The beginning of Movement 1 of G. Ph. Telemann's Cantata for solo Mezzo Soprano, flute and B.C. "Ihr Völker, hört!"
Live amateur recording - Trinity Church Lime Rock, CT October 2013
With Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
Rodrigo Tarraza, traverso
Christine Gevert, harpsichord

Telemann - Ihr Völker - 1 Excerpt Oct2013 Les Inegales - Nicholas

Its Soul of Music Shed (2005 – Revised 2016)
by Douglas Hedwig

Premiered at the 2005 International Trumpet Guild Conference, Bangkok, Thailand; performed by the composer.  This recording is from a live performance of the work at the New Music on the Bayou contemporary music festival in Louisiana, USA on June 2, 2016.  The outstanding soloist is Shelby Lewis.

This composition is based on two poems: “The Old Mail Horn” (1875), by Birch Reynardson and “Kurze Fahrt” (‘Brief Journey’), by Joseph Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857).  Both poems describe an earlier time when the sound of the posthorn and coach horn were a regular and welcome feature of everyday life throughout Europe.

The musical language employed in the work begins in a very modern, atonal/serial style, and throughout the duration of the piece gradually progresses (regresses) to the basic, bugle-like sound of the 19th century posthorn music and signals.  Sections for unaccompanied valved-posthorn (very similar to the instrument for which Gustav Mahler composed in his Third Symphony) are contrasted with the recitation of the original poems.

Kurze Fahrt (“Brief Journey”) by Joseph Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff  
[English Translation by Douglas Hedwig]

Posthorn, wie so keck und fröhlich
Brachst du einst den Morgen an,
Vor mir lag's so frühlingsselig,
Daß ich still auf Lieder sann.

Dunkel rauscht es schon im Walde,
Wie so abendkühl wird's hier,
Schwager, stoß ins Horn - wie balde
Sind auch wir im Nachtquartier!

Posthorn, how happily and care-free 
you once brought on the morning;
It lay before me with such springtime bliss
That my mind was filled with silent songs.

Yet, the forest is already murmuring darkly;
How cool becomes the evening air.
Coachman, blow your horn!
How soon we too shall find our night lodgings


"ITS SOUL OF MUSIC SHED" for Solo Flugelhorn & Narrator

Composed in 2016
Commissioned and premiered by PLEXUS

Evocations for clarinet, violin and piano - Mvt II. Dance

Composed in 2015
Premiered by Fabian Russell and the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Elegy 'In Memoriam Peter Sculthorpe', for strings and percussion

Both Of Them - The Mighty Sparrow

This is my 8-part choral setting of the Nunc Dimittis (Lord, now let your servant depart in peace), in the high-lonesome style of Appalachian singing.  This is a canticle heard traditionally for Evening services.  It was composed for the St. Michael's Choir in NYC, and in memory of my father.  Copyright, 2017.  For information on ordering sheet music, contact me directly.

Appalachian Nunc Dimittis - John Edward Cantrell

Performed in January 2019 by The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Uroš Lajovic in Belgrade, Serbia.

Haydn - Symphony No. 44 (Trauer) In E- Minor - 1st Movement - Alegro Con Brio

Performed by Trio Salzedo. http://www.trio-salzedo.fr/accueil-en.html

T.E.R.R.A for flute, harp and violoncello

"Chiron" composed by Keyna Wilkins, performed by Carl St Jacques. Inspired by Chiron, a minor planet in our solar system, which orbits the sun every 50 years erratically between Uranus and Saturn.

Instrumentation: Solo Viola
Length: c 7'00''
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkqrnd4xUXM
Published by Wirripang and available for purchase: https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/products/chiron?_pos=1&_sid=174e2d308&_ss=r
Premiere: 9/2/2019 @ Woodburn Creatives (Redfern, Sydney) performed by Carl St Jacques

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