The composer's homage to the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, "Baby Blue Roses" was composed for the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast. The trumpet version includes both B-flat and C Trumpet
The score for Dale Dykins' Ballade for piano was found among the composer's papers after his death in 2009. The Ballade was composed sometime before October 23, 1960, when it was performed by the
"Chimera" was written in 2016 for pianist Stephen Porter in response to his call for scores for a 15-Minutes-of-Fame program on the theme of Re-Imagining Beethoven. The piece is a riff on Beethoven's famous