Original Concert Works

Written for more advanced full orchestras, this stunning original cinematic overture will transport your orchestra to the movie soundstage. It's a musical journey that depicts the rebuilding of

This cinematic overture-style work will immediately entrance your audience with the rapidly unfolding colors and textures of the opening. It combines several glorious fanfares and sweeping lyrical lines in

This haunting, powerful, and aggressive work draws inspiration from a type of strobe light that can put an observer into a state of "threshold consciousness," or being half asleep. The music portrays

Upon reading Edward Esch's poem Light and Gold, Eric Whitacre was immediately struck by its genuine, elegant simplicity. He asked the celebrated American poet Charles Anthony Silvestri to translate

This work was commissioned by Omega, the luxury Swiss watchmaker, as they prepared to unveil two new watches. The goal was to compose music inspired by the elegance of the watches and the acoustic

This wonderful and very authentic arrangement of Rob Roy distills the greatest of the melodies and gives shape to the form. An excellent choice for community and collegiate programming,

You will find this a singularly enjoyable programming option. Written by one of Puerto Rico's dance masters, Virgilia was intended for dancing and it demands that we do so with vibrant

This lively original work pays tribute to the American circus and the many different clowns and clown acts that have graced the Big Top for many generations. A variety of captivating themes spark the

This march in C major begins with a stately melody with dotted-note rhythms shared between the winds and strings. Every section has a chance to play thematic material. The more lyric trio features melodic

Europa is imagined as a quiet celestial body orbiting Jupiter with a warm and friendly ocean beneath a cracked and turbulent surface. This symphony is composed in the European style and tradition of the

This fanfare, set in a simple ABA form, includes a setting of the hymn Praise to the Lord, the Almighty presented exclusively in the organ. Countermelodies and motifs are introduced throughout the

Phaethon's Ride is a tone poem depicting his ill-fated journey riding Helios' sun-chariot for a day and its inevitable, tragic end. In this work, musical form is structured on the temporal cycles

This programmatic full orchestra work is inspired by four distinct scenes of the spectacular Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil, the largest waterfall system in the world.

This stately original work, written in sonata allegro form, moves back and forth between dance and processional. With stately themes and transparent orchestral colors, it's a great opener for advanced

Inspired by the mystery and beauty of the trees in Northern California, the thematic material of this original work is derived or expanded from a five-note motive heard throughout the piece.