Written for Jun Mo Yang, a young tenor studying in the graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard Conservatory, this piece fulfilled his class assignment to seek out repertoire from a living composer whose

The first published work for bassoon by a woman dates to 1930: Ruth Crawford Seeger's Diaphonic Suite for bassoon and cello is a chromatic etude in duet form. In Diaphonic, Kyle Hovatter

Expression for Flute is an original concert piece for flute and piano written by Jack Normain Kimmell. This masterful piece evokes a feeling of unease with its use of atonality and

Flayed is a composer's equivalent of a free improvisation on a few motives. While the overall structure of the piece is a tidy A-B-A form, the individual phrases are often irregular or elided and

Kui is a polysemous figure in ancient Chinese mythology named for the legendary musician "Kui" who invented music and dancing and for the one-legged mountain demon or rain-god variously said to resemble a

The Machine Who Longs to be Human was first performed by contrabassoonist Laura Smith on 5 April 2005 at Florida State University's Lindsay Recital Hall. Prairie Dawg Press is pleased to offer the

Partita For Solo Oboe, edited by Bruce Gbur.

Commissioned by musicians Richard Lee and Karen Lerner as a gift for their daughter, soprano Katherine Lerner Lee, this art song was premiered in Katherine's master's degree recital at the Bard College