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Audio Excerpts

Compact discs may be ordered online (from Amazon.com) or from your local CD store. Some individual pieces (like "Janus" and "Das Echo von New Orleans") are available from iTunes.

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Grand Mamou (for flute and piano)

Recording: Centaur compact disc CRC 2146
Musicians: Katherine Kemler, flute, Jan Grimes, piano
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 2 minutes of movement I
• 2 minutes of movement II
• 2 minutes from middle of movement III:
• 1 minute of movement IV

 

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A Tre (for solo flute)

Recording: Centaur compact disc CRC 2146
Musician: Katherine Kemler, flute
Publisher of printed music: Theodore Presser Co.

• 1 minute of section 1
• 1 minute of section 2
• 1 minute of section 3

 

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Janus (for flute and alto saxophone)

Recording: Centaur compact disc CRC 2146

Musicians (on this excerpt): Katherine Kemler, flute, Griffin Campbell, sax
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 1 minute from flute solo in first piece
• 1 minute from saxophone solo in first piece
• 2 minutes from beginning of second piece

 

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Cherubs on the Ceiling (for alto saxophone and string trio)

Recording: Centaur compact disc CRC 2111
Musicians: Griffin Campbell, sax, Lauren Davis, violin,
James Hanna, viola, Daniel Cassin, cello
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 2 minutes from middle of piece

 

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Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Piano ("Latin Steps")

Recording: WorldWinds compact disc WWCD-1
Musicians: Griffin Campbell, sax, Jan Grimes, piano
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 3 minutes of movement I
• 2 minutes of movement II
• 2 minutes from middle of movement III

 

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Das Echo von New Orleans

Recording: Arizona University Recordings AUR CD 3136

Musicians: Farrell Vernon, sopranino sax, Jan Grimes, piano
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• "Canon", beginning of recap
• near the end of third movement, "Hymn"

 

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Hambidge Quavers (for oboe and bassoon)

Recording: Opus One compact disc CD 154
Musicians: Mark Ostoich, oboe, William Ludwig, bassoon
Publisher of printed music: Theodore Presser Co.

• 2 minutes of section 1
• 2 minutes of section 2
• 2 minutes of section 3

 

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Chaconne (for tuba and piano)

Recording: Mark Records compact disc 3964-MCD
Musicians: Joseph Skillen, tuba, Jan Grimes, piano
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 1 minute of opening theme section
• 1 minute - variations 7,8,9, start of 10

 

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Amid Disquieting Dreams (for a cappella choir)

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musicians (on this excerpt): Cantoria (Truman State University),
Mark Jennings, director
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 1-1/2 minutes from middle of first movement
• 1 minute from beginning of second movement

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Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musicians (on this excerpt): Griffin Campbell, solo sax,
University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Mark Cedel, Director.
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 1 minute from 1st mvmt. middle section
• 2 minutes from end of 2nd mvmt.

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Congo Square (for eight percussionists)

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musicians (on this excerpt): LSU Percussion Ensemble, Michael Kingan, director
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 2 minutes from near beginning of fast section

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Das Echo von New Orleans (alto saxophone and piano)

Recording: no commercial recording of the alto sax version is available.
See above for the sopranino sax version.
Musicians (on this excerpt): Griffin Campbell, sax, Jan Grimes, piano
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• "Canon", beginning of recap
• near the end of third movement, "Hymn"

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Filé (for orchestra)

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musicians (on this excerpt): Music School Festival Orchestra
(Chautauqua Music Festival), Timothy Muffitt, director
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 3-1/2 minutes from intro and fast section
• 2 minutes from end of piece

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Guttersnipe (for solo bassoon)

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musician (on this excerpt): William Ludwig, Indiana University Professor of Bassoon
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• tongue slaps without reed (mvmt. I, ms. 1-4)
• tongue slaps with reed (mvmt. I, ms. 13-16)
• multiphonic (mvmt. I, ms. 17-19)
• various techniques including overblown harmonics (mvmt. I, ms. 27-37)
• multiphonic coming out of single note (mvmt. I, ms. 52-55)
• quarter-tones, fluttertonguing (mvmt. II, ms. 1-8)
• multiphonic coming out of single note (mvmt. II, ms. 26-28)

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Trinquez, Trinquez (three Cajun folk songs arranged for a cappella choir)

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musicians (on these excerpts): North Dakota State University Madrigal Singers, Michael Weber, director
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• 1 minute from the beginning of Ma Chere Bassette
• 1 minute from the beginning of Trinquez, Trinquez

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Walking Across the Atlantic, three songs on poems of Billy Collins
(for voice and piano)

Recording: no commercial recording available
Musicians (on these excerpts): Loraine Sims, soprano, Jennifer Hayghe, piano
Publisher of printed music: Magnolia Music Press

• beginning of first song
• beginning of second song
• beginning of third song