Alvin Singleton

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 Alvin Singleton, scritto nel 1966, consiste in un breve tema misterioso che viene sottoposto a una serie di variazioni di ispirazione bebop. La nuova edizione è stata curata dalla dottore...

A work from early in his career and during an extremely left-brained-heavy period in contemporary music history, Argoru IV on the page is dense with rhythmic and notational difficulties. Ironically en...

A work from early in his career and during an extremely left-brained-heavy period in contemporary music history, Argoru IV on the page is dense with rhythmic and notational difficulties. Ironically en...

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...

L'improvvisazione è al centro dello splendido trio d'archi Be Natural (1974) di Alvin Singleton, il cui titolo è un gioco di parole sulla nota B-naturale che viene fatta circolare per tutto il brano m...

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 ambiente jazz contemporaneo. Dall'intro...

Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for John Kasica, this short piece provides a musical platform for sheer virtuosic display. The term argoru is a word from the Ghanaian Twi language m...

Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for John Kasica, this short piece provides a musical platform for sheer virtuosic display. The term argoru is a word from the Ghanaian Twi language m...

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 soll an den südafrikanischen Freiheitskämpfer Steve Biko erinnern, der auf grausame Weise durch die Polizei Südafrikas zu Tode kam. Das im Jahr 1977 komponierte Werk wurde 1978 be...