Toccata in G Major, BWV 916 (arr.) - Digital (Not Printable)

Toccata in G Major, BWV 916 (arr.) - Digital (Not Printable)pf

And so when she brought up the idea of my writing a cycle expressly for her I became instantly interested in finding the right combination of forces needed to bring such a thing into being

After he had been whipped he always went and sat upon a certain log near his cabin

but also as an introduction to the colorful personalities that comprise the ensemble (flute/piccolo

In four movements

National Broadstreet March

For concert band

I’d read that Chopin wanted the Fourth Ballade to have a “sickly

Not only does this work bring together in a single coherent composition stylistic idioms that are rarely found together in a single piece

A Downward Look

But what inspired Price’s music was a different national emergency — that of the persistent economic privations and family-rending hardships of the Great Depression — as well as Hughes’s decrying of the apathy of the rich (“the boss man”) toward the plight of the “poor and unemployed” and the poet’s ringing exhortations to the working class to take courage in the knowledge that they

rivalry and cooperation

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