Alvin Singleton

Prayer is one of the composer's most original and sophisticated works. The typical African-American church service seems to be a source for this piece with its interplay of sections and colors, yet th...

Prayer is one of the composer's most original and sophisticated works. The typical African-American church service seems to be a source for this piece with its interplay of sections and colors, yet th...

Mutations d'Alvin Singleton a été composé en 1966. L'œuvre consiste en un thème court et mystérieux qui subit une série de variations d'inspiration bebop. La nouvelle édition a été publiée par le Dr J...

A work from early in his career and during an extremely left-brained-heavy period in contemporary music history, Argoru IV on the page is dense with rhythmic and notational difficulties. Ironically en...

A work from early in his career and during an extremely left-brained-heavy period in contemporary music history, Argoru IV on the page is dense with rhythmic and notational difficulties. Ironically en...

Avec une fanfare étendue qui défie toutes les attentes vis-à-vis de la musique pour orchestre d'harmonie, l'œuvre introduit la signature musicale unique d'Alvin Singleton dans le monde symphonique des...

L'improvisation est au cœur du magnifique trio à cordes Be Natural (1974) d'Alvin Singleton, dont le titre est un jeu de mots sur la note si naturelle qui circule tout au long de la pièce, mais qui es...

Argoru V/a est une œuvre unique pour clarinette basse solo qui allie l'excellent traitement séquentiel du matériau de Singleton et la clarté de la forme dans un cadre de jazz contemporain. De l'introd...

Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for John Kasica, this short piece provides a musical platform for sheer virtuosic display. The term argoru is a word from the Ghanaian Twi language m...

Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for John Kasica, this short piece provides a musical platform for sheer virtuosic display. The term argoru is a word from the Ghanaian Twi language m...

Argoru VII is an exercise in Alvin Singleton's methods of extreme contrasts. Fast, ascending grace note scales are followed by soft, memory evocative long tones. The contrasts of the quick and the lon...

Greed Machine is a short one movement piece which explores the sustaining power and color of both instruments. The piece is based primarily upon large blocks of sustained sound with periodic interject...

Extension of a Dream soll an den südafrikanischen Freiheitskämpfer Steve Biko erinnern, der auf grausame Weise durch die Polizei Südafrikas zu Tode kam. Das im Jahr 1977 komponierte Werk wurde 1978 be...