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Suite Luther for Orchestra
In 1517, Martin Luther purportedly nailed 95 theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in the German town of Wittenberg. His criticisms challenged the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and led to a split with the Church, giving birth to the beginnings of...
Suite on Luther Chorales
Texts and Melodies by Martin Luther Barbara Harbach’s seven-part Suite on Luther Chorales for Solo Organ follows the centuries-old practice of invigorating traditional melodies with contemporary harmonizations, rhythms, and orchestral colors. The melody which she...
Summershimmer for Organ
The first section of Summershimmer has a whimsical melody pitted against blocks of chords that slowly change in texture from two-notes to a full hand-cluster. A virtuoso pedal solo utilizes the full pedal board and incorporates grace notes and scales before embarking...
Symphony for Ferguson, Symphony No. 10
Commissioned by the Missouri Humanities Council the Symphony for Ferguson was premiered October 2015 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis by the University Orchestra under the direction of Dr James Richards. The commission...
Symphony No. 1 “Veneration for Orchestra”
Symphony No. 1 "Veneration for Orchestra" I. The first movement features flowing melodies, pulses of rhythm and energy, and alternating currents of intensity and release. II. Charity – Caress is an idyll, a tender evocation that began life as a work for cello and...
Symphony No. 2 “One of Ours – A Cather Symphony”
One of Ours is based on Cather’s 1922 Pulitzer Prizewinner novel about World War I hero Claude Wheeler from central Nebraska. I. On Lovely Creek is an American pastorale, evoking Claude’s youth on the Great Nebraska Prairie and the innocence of a youngish America just...
Symphony No. 4 “Gateway Festival Symphony”
Gateway Festival Symphony, 2013, is written for and dedicated to Dr. James Richards and the Gateway Festival Orchestra for their 50th Jubilee Anniversary. I. Confluencity depicts the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers with the ebb and flow of two rivers...
Synergy
This work for piano four-hands was commissioned by the Tri-County Music Teachers Association of New York State. The term synergy implies that the combined efforts of two people are stronger than their individual efforts would be. The two-piano parts of equal...
Tarantella for Solo Piano
Caroline Orger Reinagle (1818-1892), an English composer, pianist, and writer left a body of work that includes a Piano Concerto, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio, Cello Sonata, Sonata in A Major, Op. 6 (1855) and Tarantella (1846), Volunteer Rifle March for Piano (1860),...