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Walking To Madrid is a dynamic, melodic, and exotic-sounding work that will engage each musician in the ensemble and provide them with opportunities for both solo and ensemble lines.  The piece also provides technical and dynamic variety, as well as contrasts between melodic and accompaniment lines for each instrument.
 
In addition, Walking To Madrid works very well for recital programming and is a distinctive and interesting contrast to more standard repertoire.  And, it can captivate audiences in a concert performance setting as well.
 
Walking To Madrid was inspired by the composer’s travels throughout Spain by train, as well as many miles on foot, while she made her way to Madrid.  She found the countryside, the towns, and the capital city stunningly beautiful, pastoral, overwhelming, and awe-inspiring.  She also went through four pairs of walking shoes.
 
Instrumentation - Bb Soprano Sax, Eb Alto Sax, Bb Tenor Sax, Eb Baritone Sax
 
Level - Appropriate for strong intermediate and above musicians.  Performance notes are also included inside the cover page of the sheet music.
 
Duration - 3 ½ Minutes

WALKING TO MADRID FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET

Saxophone Quartet-SATB Quartet

An American Fanfare for Brass Quintet was composed in tribute to George Gershwin and Aaron Copland and in gratitude for their influence on the composer’s music life. It is a striking ensemble piece for concert performance, brass competition, or a ceremonial opening, and includes several short solos and exposed passages.
 
The original version of An American Fanfare premiered at a concert band festival at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington. The revised, updated version provided here was completed in 2020.
 
Level - Geared toward technically strong performers, particularly Trumpet I, Trumpet II, and French Horn.
 
Duration - 3 Minutes

AN AMERICAN FANFARE FOR BRASS QUINTET

Brass Quintet

Lamb Chops For Dinner was inspired by Mary Had a Little Lamb and is a fun and entertaining piano piece for students, teachers, recital programs, and family audiences. It also incorporates a range of piano techniques and skills, plus humorous dissonances and surprises. Lamb Chops includes syncopation, varying rhythmic patterns, octave leaps, a four-octave range, specific articulations, and also fingering suggestions. The articulations include accent marks, staccato marks, and dynamics, along with phrasing and pedal marks. In addition, Lamb Chops can serve as a fun technical exercise and warm-up piece. Level Medium / Intermediate Duration 2 Minutes Lamb Chops For Dinner is one of several works in the Blue Nile Music Publisher catalog ranging from solo piano and ensemble to full orchestra that can be easily used by students and teachers, musicians, ensembles, and orchestras for recital and concert programs.

LAMB CHOPS FOR DINNER

Piano Solo

Walking To Madrid is a dynamic, melodic, and exotic-sounding work that will engage each musician in the ensemble and provide them with opportunities for both solo and ensemble lines.  The piece also provides technical and dynamic variety, as well as contrasts between melodic and accompaniment lines for each instrument.
 
In addition, Walking To Madrid works very well for recital programming and is a distinctive and interesting contrast to more standard repertoire.  And, it can captivate audiences in a concert performance setting as well.
 
Walking To Madrid was inspired by the composer’s travels throughout Spain by train, as well as many miles on foot, while making her way to Madrid.  She found the countryside, the towns, and the capital city stunningly beautiful, pastoral, overwhelming, and awe-inspiring.  She also went through four pairs of walking shoes.
 
Instrumentation - Oboe, English Horn, Bb Bass Clarinet, Bassoon
 
Level - Appropriate for intermediate, strong intermediate, and above musicians.  Performance notes are also included inside the cover page of the sheet music.
 
Duration - 3 ½ Minutes

WALKING TO MADRID FOR WOODWIND QUARTET

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Elegy - Too Soon Farewell is a beautiful, elegant, and very melodic piece, with powerful audience appeal and sentiment. It is a strong addition to a concert program honoring heroic figures and is also very suitable for occasions calling for a stirring, emotional, and heartfelt musical acknowledgment such as a patriotic ceremony, observance, or memorial service. Elegy - Too Soon Farewell is based on the original third movement from the symphony, Lord Byron In Three Vignettes, a commissioned work that was inspired by the passionate but tragically short life of Lord Byron.
 
LEVEL - Geared toward community orchestras and higher, and is very accessible and easily mastered for a public event or concert performance.
 
Duration: 6 Minutes

ELEGY - TOO SOON FAREWELL

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The Stowaway Astronaut uses words and music to portray an actual historic event from the early days of the U.S. space program - the first U.S. spacewalk by Astronaut Ed White - and uses an adult and a youth as narrators of the event. The adult narrator (off stage) provides the "Walter Cronkite" voice-over that introduces each of the three sections in The Stowaway Astronaut. The youth narrator (on stage) provides the first-person account of the fictional 12-year-old stowaway's adventure on the Gemini 4 spacecraft - the actual spacecraft that carried two NASA astronauts to that first historic spacewalk.
 
The orchestration alternates between solo orchestral passages and passages that underscore the youth narration. And narration cues are also included in both the conductor score and the musician parts. Overall, The Stowaway Astronaut works very well as a fun and entertaining piece for school and youth concert programs, and family audiences.
 
Level - Geared toward intermediate-level youth orchestras and is also very accessible for a community orchestra. In addition, it provides a unique and engaging experience for school and youth orchestras to work and perform with narrators in a concert performance, and accompany live narration.
 
Duration - 11 Minutes
 
Note: The original version of The Stowaway Astronaut was commissioned by BYSO of Bellevue, Washington and performed twice - first to commemorate a special anniversary and again to commemorate their 50th anniversary. A fully revised and expanded version of The Stowaway Astronaut is provided here and was completed in 2020.

THE STOWAWAY ASTRONAUT

Nightfall In Hollywood Land - A Petit Film Noir was inspired by the film noir genre of the 1940s - the dramatic black and white visual style, the typical disastrous lapses in character and judgment, the always doomed love story, and the king-sized emotions of the film scores. With beautiful, lyrical, and haunting melodic lines, Nightfall In Hollywood Land captures the mood of the love story and the invariable loss ever present in film noir.
 
Level - Nightfall in Hollywood Land is accessible for intermediate pianists and easily accessible for more advanced musicians.
 
Duration - 5 Minutes

NIGHTFALL IN HOLLYWOOD LAND

Inspired by a midnight drive across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, City Blues At Midnight, for solo piano, is a stylized version of 12-bar blues with elements of blues, jazz, and classical music integrated into it. This piece is ethereal, subtle, varied, and very melodic.
 
Level - Accessible for intermediate pianists, and easily accessible for more advanced musicians.
 
Duration - 4 Minutes

CITY BLUES AT MIDNIGHT

Azul Madrid, for solo piano, is reminiscent of the Romantic Era of classical music and evokes the spirit of Spain - both the restrained Franco era and the emotionally explosive post-Franco era. It also contains many distinct contrasting sections, from passionate and dramatic to quiet and melodic, and is very suitable and dynamic as a recital piece.
 
Level - Appropriate for strong intermediate and above musicians, and provides a wide range of technical, thematic, and melodic variety to keep an accomplished student, seasoned performer, or audience very engaged.
 
Duration - 4 Minutes

AZUL MADRID

Crime Doesn’t Pay in the Big City - Circa 1940 began as a piano sketch and then expanded into a work for Full Orchestra, Alto Saxophone, and Piano, after being commissioned by a community orchestra, and while the composer served as composer in residence.
 
Crime Doesn’t Pay in the Big City - Circa 1940 For Solo Piano is a full adaptation of the Overture (Act I) from that orchestral work.  The adaptation also includes themes from the orchestral work that portray a range of emotions characteristic of film noir, as well as the crime, the love interest, and the ultimate downfall of the bad guy.
 
The music concept for Crime Doesn’t Pay in the Big City - Circa 1940 was inspired by the composer’s affection for the 1940s film noir genre and its numerous elements:  The dramatic black and white visual style, the black and white portrayals of good versus evil, the typical disastrous lapses in character and judgment, the hard moral-of-the-story endings, the always doomed love interest, and especially the sweeping emotions conveyed in the film scores.
 
Level - Advanced and strong intermediate musicians.  Pedal markings are notated throughout, and performance notes are also included inside the cover page of the sheet music.
 
Duration - Approximately 5 ½ minutes

CRIME DOESN'T PAY IN THE BIG CITY - CIRCA 1940 FOR SOLO PIANO

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