Adagio for bassoon and piano by Bernhard Heiden (1910-2000)- German-American composer, faculty at Indiana University. A beautiful edition of this lyrical work taken from Heiden's 1949

By Heinrich Baermann and arranged for Solo Clarinet and Clarinet Choir by K. Tod Kerstetter.

This transcription of the simple, elegant, and haunting slow movement from Beethoven's seventh symphony adapts the full symphonic work for a large double reed ensemble, suitable for symposiums and

America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by Samuel A. Ward who was both church organist and choirmaster at

Celebrating immigration, freedom, and liberty in America, verses from The New Colossus, the poem on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, are set to music and then combined with America (My

Commissioned by the Kansas Wesleyan University Choirs, Ken Hakoda, director. This setting of Wilfred Owen’s poem "Winter Song" is centered around a single melodic motif depicting the bleakness and

Anishinaabeg, best translated as the "noble people," refers to many of the numerous Algonquin and related indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region of North America. Here, it is used

Based on the hymn GOD OF LOVE, this hymn tune adaptation was written for the fantastic flute section during my time teaching at Tabor College. This offering was a featured chamber work on the 2013 spring

In 2006, I was with my friend, Jeffrey Powers, at a regional horn conference. One evening we were out to dinner discussing some of his experiences playing in orchestras abroad. At the end of the

Blades of Grass was inspired by the poem Grass by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967):

"Pile the bodies high at Austerliz and Waterloo, Shovel them under and let me work-I am the grass; I cover all.