For Oboe and Piano, by Richard Crosby. This is a brief piece written in memory of an oboist and journalism student who was tragically killed in an automobile accident. Alycia Smith was a very talented
Landscape, a beautiful miniature for oboe and piano was published in one of the volumes of the Wa-Wan Press, a subscription magazine of compositions by American composers that Farwell produced for
This romantic work lends itself to creative interpretation on the part of both soloist and accompanist. It has a singing, pastoral quality that feels almost like a spiritual. The piano often becomes the
This is a straightforward yet beautiful arrangement of the famous tune. It will require sensitive musicianship and good technique, but is such a fine piece, it practically plays itself.
Piano Dramatique is a piano solo composed in 2018. The dynamics throughout the piece range from piano to Sforzando and a few sections move back and fourth from the lower range to upper range of the piano to
Prayer originated as an interlude for flute and piano in my choral setting of Psalm 19, Requiem, written in memory of Marie Mountain Clark. She was a friend and former principal
The melody of Beach Spring is pentatonic, as were many tunes of the shaped-note tradition. It was composed by Benjamin Franklin White who, starting in 1844, produced several editions of The
Reverie Serene is a lullaby, inspired by an instance of a swaddled newborn trying to fight slumber. I took the instance and split it into three sections; the mobile, the parent's embrace, and the
Romance is a piece that possesses a romantic, cinematic quality. And while it is quite tonal and melodic, its use of unusual chordal relationships brings to it a lushness and vibrancy that