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...

Singleton's Mutations was composed in 1966. The work consists of an enigmatic short theme which undergoes a series of Bebop-inspired variations. The new edition was edited by Dr. Jackie Leung (Jacquel...

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...

Where The Good Sounds Live brings Alvin Singleton’s distinctive sonic imprint to the symphonic wind band world, with an extended fanfare that defies presumptions. This compelling piece takes musicians...

La improvisación es el núcleo del magnífico trío de cuerda Be Natural (1974) de Alvin Singleton, cuyo título es un juego de palabras con la nota si natural que se repite a lo largo de la pieza, pero s...

Argoru V/a is a unique work for solo bass clarinet that blends Singleton's superb sequential treatment of material and clarity of form in a contemporary jazz setting. From the 'Blues-like' introductio...

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...

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...

Intezar, which means waiting in the Urdu language (spoken in India and Pakistan), is a quiet, one-movement work based on a series of blues-like incantations.

Argoru III (1971) for flute is the third in a series of eight solo works for various instruments, the term argoru being a word from the Ghanaian Twi language meaning to play (itself a pun). The work i...

Argoru III (1971) for flute is the third in a series of eight solo works for various instruments, the term argoru being a word from the Ghanaian Twi language meaning to play (itself a pun). The work i...

ARGORU VIII for snare drum is a daring, even cheeky little piece. It plays with the common notions of what snare drums are supposed to do. For example, it features absolutely deafening silences. It is...