Nicholson's compositional activity featured works for singers and wind instrumentalists-the latter works usually written for his colleagues in the LSO. The roster of dedicatees for these pieces reads as a
Miss Muse Meets Alice musically depicts the tender love that exists between a mother and her daughter, particularly when the daughter is accused of something she did not do. A sentimental and
Miss Muse Meets the Belgian is a story about when Miss Muse calls for assistance from a famous Belgian private investigator. Miss Muse has been running in circles around the evidence and needs
This piece is about investigation. It opens with a sense of searching, tiptoeing around where she could be caught trespassing. It is dangerous work but something to which Miss Muse has become accustomed.
In this work, Miss Muse, again, takes the underdog as her client, providing that client not just with vindication from accusation but the dignity to carry on.
Miss Muse and
Miss Muse's Cottage will fire the imagination to think of a quiet little village; a widow's small but tidy cottage; a murder for love gone bad and an investigation by an Agatha Christie-style Miss
Outside my San Francisco apartment window seemingly unrelated sounds fade and pan. Street traffic, fog horns, rain, emergency sirens, pedestrians, freight ships - they all seem to create their own
Mists and Sun reflects changing moods and is written in rondo (ABACA) form. The first theme (mm 5-20) should have a very ethereal, mysterious character, which is characterized by its key of g
Modern Exercises for the Contrabassoon was published by Henry Skolnick and included excerpts from the Eb Contrabassoon Concerto. In preparing the Second Edition of the Modern
Morsel is one of several short works Frank Sidorfsky has composed for clarinet. We are very pleased to offer the first publication of this delightful piece.
I met Anne Megan and the ladies of the Laurel Double Reed Quartet at the Double Reed conference at NYU in 2014. Upon chatting with them, I discovered they had a wonderful enthusiasm for new music and had
Mosaic Fanfare for horn choir was a created of necessity. I had written another work for horn choir (Firefall) to be premiered at an IHS conference recital. Due to a player shortage, it