James Barnes

Ghostdancers' is a reflective tone poem based on the tragic story of the Piaute Medicine Man named Wovoka and his development of the 'Ghost Dance, ' which many Plains Indians adopted in the late 19th...

Yorkshire Ballad began in the summer of 1983 with a telephone conversation between James Barnes and Tom Rhoads, who was at that time the band department manager at Southern Music Company. Rhoads sugge...

Fundida en sol menor, ELEGÍA EN EL ESTILO BARROCO es una obra sombría escrita en memoria del mentor y amigo de toda la vida del compositor, Kenneth Bloomquist. Su emotiva introducción desemboca en una...

Chorales included: I. A Rose is Blooming (Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen), II. O World, I Now Must Leave Thee (O Welt, Ich muss dich lassen).

Chorales included: I. A Rose is Blooming (Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen), II. O World, I Now Must Leave Thee (O Welt, Ich muss dich lassen).

One of the most exceptional graduate students during the composer's more than thirty years teaching at the University of Kansas was Naoya Takizawa, who came to KU from Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Since his...