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The Mitten is a musical story perfect for children's or family concerts. Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra  commissioned this piece in 1986. The Minnesota Orchestra has performed it hundreds of times. The Mitten is also a favorite for the Atlanta Symphony and appears regularly on their children's programs. Chamber orchestration for B-flat clarinet, oboe, trumpet, tuba, 2 percussion, strings (no contrabass) and narrator. This second edition includes narration is both English and Spanish. A recording is available for download at <a href="https://west.exch025.serverdata.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=FJjpTzNcrNRV9pUuCYVSicBJYcuX7AL8cDYlK8Numkqf2pVaPS3VCA..URL=https%3a%2f%2furl.emailprotection.link%2f%3faTjEUE9J4U2TtF7H_hd_6oP1KZTztkbdQBdJxz4d3_WOsDMA1nqihqGQL6BRRnG39K5ZLrX6FwEEvQKQf-Bi7WA%7e%7e" target="_blank">http://navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6132/index.html</a>

The Mitten

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This piece is mysterious and intriguing. Listen and visit the ancient city of the Moghul Emperor, Akbar. The main theme, an expressive melody filled with melancholy and longing, is first exposed by the clarinet. The theme appears throughout the work in its original, canonic and inverted forms. The Dance version includes additional melodic content and adheres to a straight tempo suitable for dancing. A tabla player enhances the impression of India.The claps and bells you hear on the recording are bells on the dancer's feet.OtherOrchestraTablaDance

Passage to Fatehpur Sikri for Dance

String Orchestra Score & Parts

I went to Havana to record my jazz suite in January 2017. While there, I attended a percussion master class with the inspirational percussionist, Jose Eladio Amat. I fell in love with the happy rhythms in Cuban music, especially, the Cha Cha Cha. I chose this dance form to express the joy and pleasure I receive from Barbara 
Day Turner and her orchestra. An excerpt from the well-known work "Rico Vacilon" by Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo serves as the chorus.
Nancy and Ken Weimer, Marilyn Bryson and Friends commissioned a bouquet of short works for Barbara Day Turner on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. Barbarumba! was one of these pieces.

Barbarumba!

The San Jose Chamber Orchestra put up a large grand staff on the wall; audience members pasted round stickers on it to compose a new work. The music director, Barbara Day Turner,  asked me if I'd write a new piece based on this "Crowd Sourced" music. I'm always ready for fun and a challenge. We decided to perform the new piece on the Bach inspired "Tricks and Treats" Halloween concert. 
Most people are familiar with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565). It often appears in horror movies or other scary productions. I decided to use it as a starting point for "Crowd Source". I also decided to write an accompanying tango, because I like them, tangos are usually in minor keys, and Toccata and Tango in D Minor is a cool title.

Complete program notes are in the score.

Toccata and Tango

Winter Melodies is a programmatic work. Each movement paints a picture of winter or the emotions brought on by winter.   There are four movements:   I. Gusts of Snow (2:47) II. Wind and Ice (4:24) III. Frost on Roses (5:56) IV. Hot Chocolate (3:47)

Winter Melodies

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Klezmer-influenced choral setting of L'Chah dodi, music for Jewish sabbath services. Optional clarinet part for separate purchase.

L'Chah Dodi

SATB Octavo

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"Food for Love" is a humorous, jazzy love song that uses food metaphors to describe the beloved.

Food for Love

Mezzo-Soprano Solo

An expressive and beautiful melody filled with melancholy and longing is first exposed by the clarinet. The theme appears throughout the work in its original canonic and inverted forms. This piece is mysterious and intriguing. Listen and visit the ancient city of the Moghul Emperor Akbar.

Passage to Fatehpur Sikri

String Orchestra Score & Parts with solo clarinet

Rock Latin and Afro-Cuban rhythms are the basis for this exciting piece. Melody is secondary to the pulsating beat of the orchestra.

Prince

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The Algonquin Mill near Carrollton Ohio is listed on the National Registry of Historic Sites. It was operated commercially from 1815 until 1969 when it was purchased and restored by the Carroll County Historical Society. In The Algonquin Mill a miller sings of his work and his love for the mill. The lilting waltz tempo imitates the roll of the mill. The round near the end of the work travels into remote keys.

Algonquin Mill

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Tombeau for Michael Collins 
    
    
    
    Tombeau for Michael Collins is written in the unmeasured style of the
  seventeenth century tombeaux. The music is based on three themes, a 13th
  century plainsong (Dies Irae), the ostinato from Purcell's Dido's Lament, and
  Reynolds, new tune composed to represent strength of character and love of
  God.  
    
    
    
    Michael Collins was a Methodist minister whose writing and teaching has
  been of great comfort to victims of AIDS. He died of the disease in
  1984.
    
    
    
    The Schubert Club (St. Paul, Minnesota), commissioned this piece in 1987.

Tombeau for Michael Collins

Harpsichord Solo

This fanfare for Christmas or Easter opens the festive season with trumpets and singing. SATB with organ, and optional brass quartet and timpani.

Good People of God

A Song of Singing was a winner of the University of Wisconsin Choral Union composition contest in 2006. Singers love to sing and they love this song! The upbeat 7/8 time flies along.

A Song of Singing

An arrangement of Jerusalem My Happy Home this piece is stunning and beautiful to hear. The harmonies are close and sonorous at times and clear and spacious at others. The composer masterfully weaves in echoes of Amazing Grace in the third verse. The overall tone of the piece hearkens to English Choral writing that is fresh and clean.

Land of Rest

SSA Octavo

This is a lighthearted, joyful, fun piece. Melody and harmony are derived from major chords. There are four development ideas: Bach; Rock; Impressionism; and Tango.

The Ruby that Fell from the Sky

Piano Sheet Music

For string quartet and solo clarinet.  An expressive and beautiful melody filled with melancholy and longing is first exposed by the clarinet. The theme appears throughout the work in its original canonic and inverted forms.  This piece is mysterious and intriguing. Listen and visit the ancient city of the Moghul Emperor Akbar.

String Quartet with solo clarinet

Doom: Fear and Chaos

My husband and I went to Trader Joe's the night before the lockdown. The store was packed. Everyone looked scared and confused. The store usually plays happy and peppy music, but not that night. I heard "What do you think we should do?" over and over. My husband reported "Mona! There isn't any bread!". Fear and Chaos were with us.

I used aleatory in the music to express these emotions. A quiet and low buzzing increases in speed and pitch then disintegrates into sliding pitches and an aggressive, percussive chop sound.

Gloom: Despair and Sorrow

My granddaughter was born February 26, 2020. I didn't meet her for a year and a half. A friend watched her son get married on Zoom. My husband's friend died of cancer, there was no funeral. Everyone has stories like this. Everyone. I based the sorrowful melody on the Indian mode Bhairavi. 

Zoom: The Pandemic Breakdown

I started teaching my great-niece bluegrass mandolin in April 2020. She lives in Illinois; Zoom. My tabla class moved from fun in-person classes; Zoom. My husband got a new job; Zoom. I hate and love Zoom. The Pandemic Breakdown is a bluegrass fiddle tune. Here are the lyrics:

We're two little girls from New York City, one of us is tall and the other itty bitty.
We play in the park till a quarter to noon, eat our lunch and call Grandma on Zoom!
Doom and Gloom, Doom and Gloom I'm livin' my life on Zoom.
Doom and Gloom, Doom and Gloom I'll see you soon, here on Zoom.

Doom, Gloom, and Zoom

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