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[All pieces available from Mazic Music except where
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[All pieces available from Mazic Music except where
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2017 Close Reeding (reed
quintet) (5'30")
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(perusal score)
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2016 Time Shares (mini-concerto for 3 solo
French horns and 1 or 2 horn quartets) (8'15") [ACA]
(perusal score)
(synthesized recording) | |
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2015
Flute Fetish (flute choir) (7'30") [ACA]
(synthesized recording) | |
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2015 Off the Wall (flute, bass
trombone, 5 wood blocks (or any
semi-pitched uniform wood percussion) (3') [ACA] | |
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2014
Feeling No Pain (clarinet
quartet) (6'50") [ACA]
(synthesized recording) | |
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2012 Touching Bass (string bass
and piano) (5'45") [ACA]
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2011 Fair Winds
(wind quintet) (9') [ACA]
(synthesized recording)
Flourish (3'15")
Fanfare (2'15")
Divertimento (3'30") | |
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2010 Recollections (trombone quintet adaptation) (5'40") [ACA] | |
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2009 Fanfare for an Uncommon Time (2 Bb trumpets, 4 F horns, trombone, bass trombone/tuba, bass drum) (ca. 3') [ACA]
(perusal score)
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2009 Time Shares (mini-concerto for 3 solo trumpets and 1 or 2 trumpet quartets) (8'15") [ACA]
(perusal score)
(synthesized recording) | |
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2008 Recollections (trumpet quintet) (5'40") commissioned by Tromba Mundi [ACA]
(perusal score)
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2007 By Way of Introduction (brass quintet) (45")
[Imagine Music] | |
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2007 Seven Minutes for Seven Players (percussion ensemble) (7') [ACA] | |
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2006 String Quartet [on MSR Classics MS 1223] [ACA]
I. Sonata (9') (Nevsky String Quartet)
II. In memoriam September 11, 2001 (7') (Nevsky String Quartet)
III. Scherzoid (4'45") (Momenta)
IV. Small Fugue (9'15") (Momenta) | |
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2005 Stellar Mettle (brass quintet) (9') [ACA] commissioned by The Lone Star Brass
(synthesized recording)
Flourish (3'15")
Fanfare (2'15")
Divertimento (3'30") | |
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2004 Four Pieces After Rooseveltians for the Roosevelt Arts Project (saxophone quartet SATBar) (18’45”) [ACA]
Caprice (in memoriam Sol Libsohn) (5’45”)
Intermezzo (in memoriam Judy Trachtenberg) (4’30”)
Bagatelle (in memoriam Ed Schlinski) (2’45”)
Finale (in memoriam Bernarda Shahn) (5’45”) | |
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2004 Assunpink Twilight (small wind ensemble: picc., 2 fl., 2 Bb cl., b. cl., a. sax., t. sax., Bb tpt., hn., tuba, chimes & triangle) (5') [ACA] | |
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2004 Triarchy (C trumpet, violin, percussion (3 toms, 5tbs, vibes, sus cym, tri)) (8'30") [ACA] | |
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2004 Jersey Sure (saxophone quartet SATBar) (4'30") for the NJ Saxophone Quartet [ACA] | |
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2003 Renewal (trumpet and pipe organ) (5') [ACA] | |
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2002 The Tale of the Scale (flute, clarinet/alto saxophone, bass trombone, percussion) (ca. 5’30”) [written for Tales and Scales]
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2002 Two Emily Dickinson Settings (flute, clarinet or alto saxophone, bass trombone, vibraphone and triangle; English texts spoken by the instrumentalists) [written for Tales and Scales] (ca. 7’) [ACA]
I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose (4’)
To Make a Prairie (3’) | |
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2001
Menagerie (flute, soprano and piano; French texts by Robert Desnos*) (ca. 13’) [ACA]
L’Hippocampe [The Sea Horse] (1’45”)
Le Léopard [The Leopard] (2’30”)
Le Zèbre [The Zebra] (1’35”)
La Sauterelle [The Grasshopper] (45”)
Le Ver Luisant [The Glowworm] (3’45”)
La Fourmi [The Ant] (2’)
*La Fourmi, La Sauterelle, Le Léopard, L’Hippocampe, Le Zèbre, and Le Ver luisant from Chantefables et Chantefleurs by Robert Desnos,
©Editions Gründ, Paris; used with permission. | |
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1999 Festive Fanfare (brass quintet) (2’) [Ludwig Music] | |
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1994 Shalom Rav (cantor (high voice) and SATB a cappella; Hebrew from the Reform Jewish liturgy) (3’) [ACA] | |
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1994
Grant Us Peace (cantor and congregation; English from the Reform Jewish liturgy) (4’)
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1994 Two Hannah Senesh Songs (soprano & piano; English) (4’45”)
Now (2’15”)
Harvest (2’30”) | |
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1993 Quintifications (brass quintet) (4’15”)
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1970 Twilight Songs (flute and soprano; text by Peter Boffey) (5') [ACA] | |
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1968 Two Short Duets
(clarinet and 'cello) (3') [ACA] | |
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1968 Reunion (flute duet) (8') [ACA]
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1964 Two Short Duets for Two Flutes (3')
[Imagine Music]
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[All pieces available from Mazic Music except where
another publisher is indicated.]
[All music SATB a cappella. All pieces available from Mazic Music except where
another publisher is indicated.]
English Choral Compositions
Hebrew Choral Compositions
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Proverbs for Four at Fifty (texts from Mishle (Book of Proverbs)) (9’) (1998) Settings of four proverbs commemorating fiftieth birthdays. [ACA]
Recorded live in concert by Volti San Francisco at All Saints Episcopal Church, Palo Alto CA, 11/15/09 Oz V’Hadar L’Vushah [Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she smiles confidently at the future.] (31:25) L’Khah Nirveh Dodim Ad HaBoker [Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with love.] (7:18) D’rakheyha Darkhey Noam [Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all of her paths are peace.] (3:17) Reyshit Khakhmah [The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom: therefore use all of your means to acquire understanding.] (4:7)
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Yiddish Choral Compositions
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[SATB a cappella for moderate (M) and advanced (A) levels]
Since I am not a native Yiddish speaker, I can identify with the audience that wants to make a connection to the music but doesn’t understand the words. In my arrangements, I try to illuminate the text by using English translations ― but only if and when they contribute to the flow of the song ― and by employing musical means that support the structure of the poetry and the meaning of the lyric to convey a sense of the text even to people who don’t speak Yiddish. Many of these arrangements are published by Carl Fischer [CF],
Transcontinental Music [TM], or
ECS Publishing [ECS].
Autumn
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Harbstlid [Autumn Song] (M) (Words and Music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (3’20”) [ECS] A reflective arrangement of a song by one of today’s most active and prestigious Yiddish poets.
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Chanukah
Purim
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Urim-burim (A) (I. Kaminski/Mikhl Gelbart, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (2’) A spirited arrangement of a joyous song.
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Passover
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Zog, Maran [Tell Me, Marrano] (M) (Avrom Reisen/Shmuel Bugatch, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish & English (2’) [ECS] A courageous story of how the festival of freedom was celebrated in a time of oppression. Written for Judith Clurman to be performed at her Passover concert at the Ninety-Second Street Y.
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Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance)
Independence Day
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Amerike di prekhtike [America the Beautiful] (M) (Katherine Lee Bates/Samuel Ward (after Materna), Yiddish: Berl Lapin, arr. Mark Zuckerman) English & Yiddish (2’) A rousing arrangement of the patriotic standard, with the first verse in English and in Yiddish translation celebrating the Jewish immigrants’ devotion for their new land of freedom. First performed at Lincoln Center, this arrangement was chosen to end the Town Hall commemoration of the Jewish Forward’s centenary.
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Courtship
Anniversaries
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Akhtsik er un zibitsik zi [Eighty He and Seventy She] (M) (M. M. Warshawsky, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (1’50”) [ECS] A song about a fiftieth anniversary celebration of a contented marriage.
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Twilight
Labor Songs
Second Avenue
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Dona, dona (A) (Aaron Zeitlin/Sholom Secunda, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish & English (3’15”); Yiddish only (2’15”) The ironic, philosophic song, known as a folksong all over the world, in the original Yiddish.
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