To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, this is the fifth in a series of free chamber music pieces that I am making available. This setting of Good King Wenceslas is for a flexible woodwind quartet. The piece is about one minute and 20 seconds in length, and the technical range should be very comfortable for most mid-level musicians. […]
Dear Friends and Colleagues in the Band World, I hope this message finds you safe, healthy, rested, and resilient. It is hard to completely fathom what all of us in education have come through over the past five months. However, tracking music educators on various social media platforms confirmed what I know to be true: you are creative, responsive, and […]
To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, this is the third in a series of free chamber music pieces that I am making available. This original work “Morning Walk (A view from a Princess)” is my impression of the world from our 17 year old dog Princess (all 8 pounds of her!). The piece is about two minutes in […]
To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, this is the second in a series of free chamber music pieces that I am making available. Though shorter and transposed from the orginal key, I hope your students will enjoy this setting of the Minuet from Mozart’s Symphony No. 28. This quartet for 2 Flutes and 2 Clarinets in Bb is […]
To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, I hope you might find this setting of the Moorish Dance by Tielman Susato (from The Danserye) useful. The setting is only about one minute in length, and was originally arranged for a Junior High/Middle School Group (Grade 2). It has been set for a Bb Quartet (ideally 3 Bb Clarinets and […]
