Music for Orchestra

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CONCERTO for Violin and Orchestra (1950) written for Josef  Gingold. Score & parts at MSU Library 

SYMPHONY for Orchestra ( 1954 PhD thesis composition)  performed at University of Iowa . Score & parts at University of Iowa Library and MSU Library

CHAMBER SYMPHONY (1957) premiered by The Longines’ Symphonette, conducted by Michel Piastro. Score & parts at MSU Library

THREE AMERICAN DANCES for Orchestra, (1958) premiered by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clyde Roller. Score & parts at MSU Library

TRIGON for String Orchestra (1962) commissioned by The American Federation of Musicians for the Congress of Strings and performed by this Congress and in Vienna  and conducted by Josef Kripps. Published by Boosey & Hawkes 1964

MIDWESTERN SKETCHES (four short movement for orchestra) commissioned and performed by East Lansing High School (1962)  Score & parts at MSU Library

THREE CANTOS for Orchestra, commissioned and premiered by The Lansing  Symphony (1963), Clyde Roller conducting.  Score and parts at MSU Library

SYMPHONIC OVERTURE (1964) commission by The Lansing Symphony and conducted by Gregory Millar. Score and parts at MSU Library or Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Library

ELEGY for Strings  (1965)  premiered  and conducted by Thor Johnson with the International String Congress at MSU. Score & parts at MSU Library

CONCERTO for Double Bass and Orchestra (1968) commissioned and  frequently performed by Gary Karr.  Score & parts at International Double Bass Society, Dallas, Texas  and at MSU Library

LULLABY for Orchestra   written for the Instituto Superior de Musica in Resistencia, Argentina and premiered there  in 1976. Score and parts from the composer.

SOLILOQUY for Solo Violin and String Orchestra written for the French Violinist, Annie Jodry, and premiered in Paris with Jean-Jaques Werner conducting The Orchestre De Jeunes des Pays Europeens (June, 1987) Score & parts at Ecole Nationale de Musique, 94260, Fresnes, France.

DOUBLE CONCERTO NO. 1 for Violin & Clarinet, with Orchestra commissioned and performed by Walter & Elsa Verdehr (1998) Published by Brotons & Mercadal Ediciones Musicals S.L.

BALLET FOR Orchestra in Three Movements commissioned for and premiered  at Blue Lake fine Arts Camp in Celebration of its 40th anniversary with Jefferson Baum as Choreographer. (2005)  Score & parts at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp or at MSU Library

DOUBLE CONCERTO NO. 2 for Violin and Clarinet with Orchestra commissioned and performed by Walter & Elsa Verdehr (2007) Score & parts at MSU Library

    

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