When I started writing this piece I did not follow an extra-musical subject, no story inspired this work. I have simply tried to write a composition that would befit the timbre and expressive of this

The Adagio, Op. 30, for Double Wind Quintet was composed in 1897 while Converse was studying with Rhinberger. The choice of instrumentation and key (E-flat major) point to a familiarity with the

Dreams of the White Tiger is a work that had a complicated path to completion. Upon receiving this commission, I contacted several of my friends (Jeff McCray, Matt Morris, and Richard Ramey) and

The Duo for English horn and Alto Saxophone dates from 1938 during Heiden' s years in Detroit. The holograph does not bear any dedication, but it safe to assume that he wrote the two-movement work

Originally written for organ, this fugue by Reinhold Gliere was composed when he served on the faculty of the Kiev Conservatory. Deftly arranged for a trio of flute, oboe, and bassoon, it retains the

In E. L. Doctorow's novel Homer and Langley, based on Manhattan's notorious Fifth Avenue compulsively hoarding Collyer brothers, Doctorow first introduces his character Homer as he is losing his

When given the opportunity to write for the Silver Keys Trio's instrumentation, my wife and I had just begun to expect our new daughter. I swung between exhaustive fragility and terrifying elation and still