A celebration of American social progress, Lady Liberty is dedicated to President Barack Obama. ca. 5 minutes.
William Bolcom composed both words and music for these urban madrigals, written for The Western Wind a cappella group in 1970. Each madrigal depicts a slice of New York City life in the early 1970's,...
Pulitzer prize-winning composer William Bolcom wrote this choral anthem for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Bicentennial. Based on Emerson's famous text, Bolcom's originality and musicality shine through.
The Mask is a cycle of five poems by various authors set to music and arranged for SATB chorus and piano accompaniment. Composed in 1990 by William Bolcom, these settings present a challenge to both t...
Written for the New York Concert Singers and their conductor Judith Clurman, this compelling work on the single word Alleluia begins in a quiet staggered aleatoric fashion, gradually growing into a dr...
William Bolcom's work is challenging, awe-inspiring and always provocative. This substantial work, commissioned by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus with a text by Bolcom's frequent librettist Arnold...
Commissioned by the Piedmont Chamber Singers of Winston-Salem, NC in honor of its 30th anniversary, Four Piedmont Choruses are settings of the four moody poems by North Carolina poet laureate Kathryn...
For Medium Voice and Piano. Another Outstanding collection of theatre-poetry-lieder-pop-tavernacular prayer called cabaret song. Texts by Arnold Weinstein. Contents: Angels Are the Highest Form of Vir...
Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America for its 2013 competition, Aria received its premiere at the GFA conference in Louisville, Kentucky on June 30, 2013. Edited by Michael Lorimer.
Cole Porter's only attempt at a serious composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde. Both pieces w...