Commissioned by the Studio for New Music of the University of Siegen, Germany, Samuel Adler's newest addition to the flute repertoire is Recitative and Rondo Capriccioso. This 8-minute work for flute...
For the excellent horn talent Andrew Pelletier; Adler composed Cantilena; a two-movement contemporary affair perfect for the recital program. The first movement begins 'slowly and very expressively;'...
This is one of a group of four studies; each published separately; originally written for one performer who plays flute; oboe; clarinet; and bassoon. Each of them may be played simply as written; by o...
Composed for virtuoso trombone soloist Yu Tamaki Hoso, Samuel Adler's TWO SIDES OF A COIN is reminiscent of an introduction and allegro, balancing substantive musicality with dazzling technical feats....
Adler was asked for a trumpet and organ piece to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of Nathan Arnold Schoenberg (great-grandson of Arnold); and Let the Trumpet Sound is the result. After the opening Shofar tru...
This 5-minute plaintive elegy was composed in memory of Milton Babbitt - a touching tribute by one of America's great composers eulogizing another. For advanced players. Dur.: 5'
Commissioned to create folk song arrangements, Adler chose two compelling Southern Appalachian folk songs, brought to our shores by English immigrants and having origins in Elizabethan times. Married...
Dramatic and declamatory, Adler?s Solemn Soliloquy is a lyrical elegy composed for violinist Atis Bankas of the Toronto Symphony. The work was commissioned for a premiere in 2014 at a Holocaust Memori...