Alvin Singleton

Greed Machine is a short one movement piece which explores the sustaining power and color of both instruments. The piece is based primarily upon large blocks of sustained sound with periodic interject...

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...

The title of this one-movement highly-pianistic creation lets us know clearly where the composer is comfortable. But within that skin in this work are two competing sonic worlds. Beginning chorally in...

Between Sisters (1990) is a musical setting of The House Slave, a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, and is scored for alto flute, piano, soprano, and vibraphone. S...

Jasper Drag was commissioned by Michigan State University and the Phillips Collection for the Verdehr Trio. The title refers to the June 7, 1998 Jasper, Texas incident, wherein three white men dragged...

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...