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to scores and recordings ― 
[All pieces available from Mazic Music except where indicated
otherwise.]
[All pieces available from Mazic Music except where indicated otherwise.]
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2007 By Way of Introduction (brass quintet)
(45")
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2007 Recollections (trumpet quintet) (5'40") |
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2007 Seven Minutes for Seven Players (percussion
ensemble) (7') |
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2006 String Quartet
[on MSR Classics
MS 1223]
I. Sonata (9')
(Nevsky String Quartet)
II. In memoriam September 11, 2001 (7')
(Nevsky String Quartet)
III. Scherzoid (4'45")
(Momenta)
IV. Small Fugue (9'15")
(Momenta) |
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2005 Stellar Mettle (brass quintet) (9')
commissioned by The Lone Star Brass
Flourish (3'15"
Fanfare (2'15")
Divertimento (3'30") |
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2004 Four Pieces After Rooseveltians for the
Roosevelt Arts Project (saxophone quartet SATBar) (18’45”)
Caprice (in
memoriam Sol Libsohn) (5’45”)
Intermezzo (in memoriam Judy Trachtenberg) (4’30”)
Bagatelle (in memoriam Ed Schlinski) (2’45”)
Finale (in memoriam Bernarda Shahn) (5’45”)
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2004 Assunpink Twilight (small wind ensemble: picc., 2
fl., 2 Bb cl., b. cl., a. sax., t. sax., Bb tpt., hn., tuba, chimes & triangle)
(5') |
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2004 Triarchy (C trumpet, violin, percussion
(3 toms, 5tbs, vibes, sus cym, tri)) (8'30") |
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2004 Jersey Sure (saxophone quartet SATBar) (4'30") for the NJ
Saxophone Quartet
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2003 North Country Dance (string orchestra) (3')
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2003 Renewal (trumpet and pipe organ) (5')
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2002
The Tale of the Scale
(flute, clarinet/alto saxophone, bass trombone, percussion) (ca. 5’30”)
[written for Tales and Scales] |
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2002
Two Emily Dickinson Settings
(flute, clarinet, bass trombone, vibraphone and triangle;
English texts spoken by the instrumentalists) [written for Tales and
Scales] (ca. 7’)
I’ll Tell
You How the Sun Rose (4’)
To Make a Prairie (3’) |
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2001
5
30
Menagerie
(flute, soprano and piano; French texts by
Robert Desnos*) (ca. 13’) [APNM]
L’Hippocampe [The Sea
Horse] (1’45”)
Le
Léopard [The Leopard]
(2’30”)
Le
Zèbre [The Zebra] (1’35”)
La
Sauterelle [The
Grasshopper] (45”)
Le Ver
Luisant [The Glowworm]
(3’45”)
La
Fourmi [The Ant] (2’)
*La
Fourmi, La Sauterelle, Le Léopard, L’Hippocampe, Le Zèbre,
and
Le Ver luisant
from
Chantefables et Chantefleurs
by Robert Desnos,
©Editions Gründ, Paris; used with permission. |
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1999
Festive Fanfare
(brass quintet) (2’) [Ludwig Music]
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1994
Shalom
Rav
(cantor (high voice) and SATB a cappella; Hebrew from the Reform Jewish
liturgy) (3’)
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1994
5
24
Grant Us Peace
(cantor and congregation; English from the Reform Jewish liturgy) (4’) |
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1994
Two Hannah Senesh Songs
(soprano & piano; English) (4’45”)
Now (2’15”)
Harvest (2’30”) |
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1993
Quintifications
(brass quintet) (4’15”) |
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1970 Twilight Songs (flute and soprano; text by Peter Boffey) (5')
[APNM] |
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1968 Two Short Duets (clarinet and 'cello) |
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1968 Reunion (flute duet) (8') [ACA] |
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1964 Two Short Duets for Two Flutes (3') |
[All pieces available from Mazic Music except where indicated
otherwise.]
[All music SATB a cappella. All pieces available from
Mazic Music except where indicated otherwise.]
English Choral
Compositions
Hebrew Choral Compositions
Oz V’Hadar L’Vushah
[Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she smiles confidently at the
future.] (31:25)
L’Khah Nirveh Dodim Ad HaBoker
[Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us delight
ourselves with love.] (7:18)
D’rakheyha Darkhey Noam
[Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all of her paths are peace.] (3:17)
Reyshit Khakhmah
[The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom: therefore use all of your means to
acquire understanding.] (4:7)
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Ani L'Dodi V'Alay T'shukato
[I am my beloved’s, and his desire is towards me] (text from
Shir HaShirim
(Song of Songs)) (1’) (1998)
An epigram from the Song of Songs set as a processional. |
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Kol Dodi [Voice of My
Beloved] (text from
Shir HaShirim)
(7’15”) (1997)
An extended choral setting of a collection of quotations from the Song of
Songs.
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Yiddish Choral
Compositions
[SATB a cappella for moderate (M) and advanced (A) levels]
Since I am not a native Yiddish
speaker, I can identify with the audience that wants to make a connection to
the music but doesn’t understand the words. In my arrangements, I try to
illuminate the text by using English translations ― but only if and when
they contribute to the flow of the song ― and by employing musical means
that support the structure of the poetry and the meaning of the lyric to
convey a sense of the text even to people who don’t speak Yiddish.
Many of these
arrangements are published by Carl Fischer [CF],
Transcontinental Music
[TM], or ECS Publishing [ECS].
Autumn
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5
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Harbstlid
[Autumn Song] (M) (Words and
Music by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (3’20”) [ECS]
A reflective arrangement of a song by one of today’s most active and
prestigious Yiddish poets.
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Chanukah
Purim
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5
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Urim-burim
(A) (I. Kaminski/Mikhl
Gelbart, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (2’)
A spirited arrangement of a joyous song.
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Passover
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5
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Zog, Maran [Tell Me,
Marrano] (M) (Avrom Reisen/Shmuel Bugatch, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish &
English (2’)
[ECS]
A courageous story of how the festival of freedom was celebrated in a
time of oppression. Written for Judith Clurman to be performed at her Passover
concert at the Ninety-Second
Street Y.
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Yom HaShoah
(Holocaust Remembrance)
Independence
Day
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5
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Amerike di prekhtike
[America the Beautiful] (M) (Katherine
Lee Bates/Samuel Ward
(after Materna), Yiddish: Berl Lapin, arr. Mark Zuckerman) English &
Yiddish (2’)
A rousing arrangement of the patriotic standard, with the first verse in
English and in Yiddish translation celebrating the Jewish immigrants’
devotion for their new land of freedom. First performed at Lincoln Center,
this arrangement was chosen to end the Town Hall commemoration of the
Jewish Forward’s
centenary.
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Courtship
Anniversaries
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5
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Akhtsik er un zibitsik zi
[Eighty He and Seventy She] (M) (M. M. Warshawsky, arr. Mark Zuckerman)
Yiddish (1’50”) [ECS]
A song about a fiftieth anniversary celebration of a contented marriage.
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Twilight
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5
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O kum shoyn shtiler ovnt
[Evening Song] (M) (Daniel
Charney, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (2’) [ECS]
A peaceful song of a country twilight.
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5
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Di zun vet aruntergeyn
[The
Sun Will Set] (M) (Moshe Leib Halpern/Ben Yomen, arr. Mark Zuckerman) Yiddish (2’45”) [TM]
A simple arrangement of a sweet song about dusk, with metaphorical
undertones.
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