Lee Kesselman: Partituras medio

Originally created for solo voice, this arrangement will give young voices the opportunity to perform a brilliant American art-song in an idiomatic arrangement with solo clarinet.

Hwayana yaMwari is composed in the spirit of choral music heard at the Episcopal Cathedral in Harare, Zimbabwe, in the summer of 1993. Shona is the majority tribe in Zimbabwe and its language. The tex...

Taken from the last part of Handel's Israel in Egypt, written three years before the Messiah. This aria, sung originally by a solo voice with string orchestra near the end of the work, anticipates the...

Moonplay is influenced by the tradition of inventions - studies using limited musical materials. Yi and yu - change and constancy - are the foundations of almost every musical form. And in abstract mu...

The life of Oglala Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) spanned the tragic decades of the battle with Custer at the Little Big Horn, the ghost dance, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In 1930, Nebrask...

This traditional carol comes out of the American oral tradition. The directness of the text is emphasized by the beautiful melody in Mixolydian mode.