Solo with Orchestra

THE SHOW GOES ON (Ha’hatzaga Nimshechet) Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (2008)

For many years the clarinet has played a special role in my music, its huge range of possibilities and powerful dramatic potential allowing for fresh explorations in a variety of contexts, its “soul” having been intertwined with important aspects of my compositional “voice.” In a single movement, my Clarinet Concerto can be heard…

YEARNING for solo violin and strings with cello obbligato (1995/2016)

When violinist Edna Michell first spoke to me about the theme of her project to honor the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin on the occasion of his 80th birthday, I found its core idea more than a little daunting: in tribute to Menuhin’s own life and aspirations, compose a short Romance-type piece that would…

VOICES Concerto for Flautist with Orchestra (1999–2000)

My having been commissioned by the National Flute Association for a flute concerto in celebration of that organization’s year 2000 convention was, for me, a much-relished opportunity to further explore the direction I found myself pursuing in two earlier compositions — EAST WIND for solo flute (1987), and MIRAGE for five instrument (1991)…

VIOLIN CONCERTO (2002–3)

My Concerto for Violin and Orchestra is a work of some 30 minutes cast in three movements. Each movement explores certain facets of the violin’s complex personality, or “soul.” The classically proportioned first movement, taken as a whole, is rather mercurial in character, ranging the gamut from the lyrical and deeply expressive to…

CONCERT PIECE FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (1970)

In retrospect, twenty-one years later, it seems that 1960’s and 1970’s bashing has become a favorite past time activity for a great many composers at this particular moment in history. “Modernistic,” “progressive,” or “advanced” style are terms which only thinly disguise derision and contempt right now. The word “academic,” in its current usage, has a decidedly unpleasant ring to it…