Ecclesiastes 3

Anybody Home? is a theatrical orchestral piece that adds a speaker to the mix. It acts out a scenario of that childhood experience of knocking on the door of a strange house and feeling

Child's Play contains children's games and is relatively easy (as in the expression "child's play"), yet it explores various rhythms, as well as playing on offbeats and coming in mid measure

A heroic concerto for cello and full symphony orchestra. It was composed during Hurricane Sandy, and loosely based on the life of Genghis Khan. A classic concerto in form, it employs the pentatonic scale,

The narrator tells the joke then the orchestra "acts out" the concept. The first, with its steady dotted rhythm, represents jumping rope. The second imitates a helicopter. Dissonance is used throughout but

The mood of Full Scale Assault is one of attack. Technically it explores full scales (up to two octaves) and scale fragments in the Dorian mode. It also explores note values of eighth, triplet and sixteenth

Inspired by Beethoven's 5th, in which he uses a short phrase in a myriad of ways, Give Me Five finds a mini-myriad of ways to incorporate 5, including the time signature. Technically - all

In this inspired work for cello and chorus (sung in Hebrew) Minsky has included a prayer used in both the Jewish and Christian liturgies, and combined it with the traditional Jewish hymn "Ein Keloheinu".

LEGENDS OF CELLANDIA (for cello orchestra, 5-string electric bass and percussion) by Aaron Minsky (commissioned by the London Cello Society) is a tone poem with a Brahmsian sonority utilizing

The use of the pick by the whole orchestra (optional for bass) is a prominent feature of Let's Jam!. All instruments should be held celtar (guitar) style (optional for bass). Most of the writing is

This piece can't figure out what it is. But this indecision provides the chance to practice from moving from F to F# and back. The occasional excursion into Eb provides practice for the low 1st finger.

As the locals tell it... one day the serenity of Cambridge's scenic River Cam was shattered by a most unruly swan. His terrorizing aerial assaults on boaters continued day after day prompting the nickname:

The unifying principle of Open Sesame is the fact that the whole piece was composed using only open strings! This makes it easy in that it doesn't use the left hand, but there are challenges

Summer Haze is the composers's first concerto for cello and string orchestra (percussion optional). Based on songs composed in his youth, it has an energy that could only have come from those

Cello Etudes from the 4th dimension? Pieces in which you play the same pattern on all four strings, creating new challenges and opportunities.  In fact, it creates sounds never heard before, and

A suite of variations based on the Bach Cello Suites combined with modern popular styles in a form that could only be created by Aaron Minsky (Von Cello)! The pieces are of moderate difficulty and will be

This music is meant to sound like the flying meanderings of a bee. As the piece progresses the bee becomes more and more annoying. Finally, the slap on the music stands represents a swat, and the unison

Though considered in Medieval times "the devil in music" the tritone is widely used in modern music. Tritone Mischief provides an opportunity to practice this important interval and the finger