Stanley M. Hoffman

The melody for Naomi's Lullaby had been swimming around in my head since the 1970s. When Naomi was born in 2004, it gave me a reason to compose an accompaniment for it and name it in honor of my only...

This well-known, bucolic piano piece is arranged here for Oboe and Two English Horns. The arrangement could not be more simple in its intent to remain true to the source composition by not embellishin...

This work begins with a Passacaglia whose melody is in the style of a sea shanty. The Chorale that follows is staid in character, as chorales are apt to be. The Dance that closes the work is exuberant...

The duet version of Fantasypiece for violoncello and double bass was composed in 2001, an arrangement for chamber orchestra was completed in 2002. The title has multiple meanings. The musical language...

Completed on November 11, 2008, this work was commissioned by Carolina Brass who gave it its world premiere performance on April 17, 2010, at Brass Fest, Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC.

Composed in 1984 and revised in 1993, Of all the souls that stand create for baritone and piano (Catalog No. 8407) is a setting of a poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886). The music features f...

A set of three interconnected songs for male voice and band. Completed in 1997, this fifteen minute piece features a modal, lyrical musical language throughout, is written at a university or professio...