Alvin Singleton

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...

Ridgeview Centrum is a fanfare written in composer Alvin Singleton's style of subtle spontaneity, which is experienced through a fusion of classical and folk music elements. In the historic tradition...

Ridgeview Centrum is a fanfare written in composer Alvin Singleton's style of subtle spontaneity, which is experienced through a fusion of classical and folk music elements. In the historic tradition...

The word argoru comes from the Ghanaian Twi language and means to play. ARGORU I for piano is the first in a series of virtuoso pieces for solo instruments, including cello, flute, viola, bass clarine...

Sopran-Saxophon, Trompete, Militärtrommel und Klavier.

Alvin Singleton's La Flora is inspired by the figure of the goddess Flora, a character painted in the mysterious 15th century Botticelli masterpiece La Primavera with its mysterious and sexy gathering...

Improvisation is at the core of Alvin Singleton's gorgeous string trio Be Natural (1974), its title a pun on the B-natural note that is passed around throughout the piece but is always droning, a groa...

Ridgeview Centrum es una fanfarria escrita en el estilo de sutil espontaneidad del compositor Alvin Singleton, que se experimenta a través de una fusión de elementos de música clásica y folclórica. Si...

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...