Alvin Singleton

Where The Good Sounds Live brings Alvin Singleton's distinctive sonic imprint to the symphonic wind band world, with an extended fanfare that defies presumptions. This compelling piece takes musicians...

Prayer is one of the composer's most original and sophisticated works. The typical African-American church service seems to be a source for this piece with its interplay of sections and colors, yet th...

Prayer is one of the composer's most original and sophisticated works. The typical African-American church service seems to be a source for this piece with its interplay of sections and colors, yet th...

Mutations di Singleton è stato composto nel 1966. L'opera consiste in un breve tema enigmatico che subisce una serie di variazioni ispirate al Bebop. La nuova edizione è stata curata dalla dottoressa...

Con una fanfara estesa che sfida tutte le aspettative della musica per banda, l'opera porta la firma musicale distintiva di Alvin Singleton nel mondo sinfonico delle bande di fiati. Questo pezzo accat...

Argoru V/a è un'opera unica per clarinetto basso solo che combina il superbo trattamento sequenziale del materiale e la chiarezza della forma di Singleton in un contesto jazz contemporaneo. Dall'intro...

Argoru VII is an exercise in Alvin Singleton's methods of extreme contrasts. Fast, ascending grace note scales are followed by soft, memory evocative long tones. The contrasts of the quick and the lon...

Greed Machine is a short one movement piece which explores the sustaining power and color of both instruments. The piece is based primarily upon large blocks of sustained sound with periodic interject...

Extension of a Dream is a memorial to the South African freedom fighter Steve Biko who met an untimely, brutal death at the hands of South African police. Originally composed in 1977, the work was pre...

Intezar, which means waiting in the Urdu language (spoken in India and Pakistan), is a quiet, one-movement work based on a series of blues-like incantations.

The word argoru comes from the Ghanaian Twi language and means to play. ARGORU I for piano is the first in a series of virtuoso pieces for solo instruments, including cello, flute, viola, bass clarine...

The title of this one-movement highly-pianistic creation lets us know clearly where the composer is comfortable. But within that skin in this work are two competing sonic worlds. Beginning chorally in...

Between Sisters (1990) is a musical setting of The House Slave, a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, and is scored for alto flute, piano, soprano, and vibraphone. S...

Jasper Drag was commissioned by Michigan State University and the Phillips Collection for the Verdehr Trio. The title refers to the June 7, 1998 Jasper, Texas incident, wherein three white men dragged...

Sopran-Saxophon, Trompete, Militärtrommel und Klavier.

Alvin Singleton's La Flora is inspired by the figure of the goddess Flora, a character painted in the mysterious 15th century Botticelli masterpiece La Primavera with its mysterious and sexy gathering...