William Bolcom

William Bolcom's work is challenging, awe-inspiring and always provocative. This substantial work, commissioned by the New York City Gay Men's Chorus with a text by Bolcom's frequent librettist Arnold...

William Bolcom's oratorio, premiered in 1984, is based on writings of William Blake. The piece is enormous in its scale, requiring hundreds of performers, and was recorded for a Naxos release, conduct...

Written in honor of the renowned director of the University of Michigan bands, H. Robert Reynolds, William Bolcom has created an impressive new work for the concert band repertoire. With poignant melo...

Adapted from the well-known piano composition Graceful Ghost Rag, here is William Bolcom's own very elegant and effective version for symphonic band. Written in a moderate ragtime tempo, this work uti...

Composed in memory of Bolcom's former teacher, Darius Milhaud, this piece can be played as an introduction to another piece, or as 'bookends' for a group of small works. For two pianists at one piano.

This vocal sheet for tenor/piano features the piece sung by Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge. Based on the play by Arthur Miller, this opera was commissioned and premiered by the Lyric Opera of Chic...

Commissioned by the Piedmont Chamber Singers of Winston-Salem, NC in honor of its 30th anniversary, Four Piedmont Choruses are settings of the four moody poems by North Carolina poet laureate Kathryn...

Composed in 1986-87. Based on the theme from George Rochberg's Violin Concerto, Movement IV.

Commissioned by the Friends of Today's Music program of the Music Teachers' Association of California, this publication is a great follow-up to Bolcom's previous work, Nine Bagatelles (00294028). Incl...

Pianist Guy Livingston commissioned 60 composers to each write a piece that would last 60 seconds. Bolcom's entry is whimsical, and a perfect piece for an encore.

Bolcom composed these easy piano pieces for his wife to play in her piano lessons. They are accessible to beginner and intermediate level pianists of all ages.

A virtuosic show-piece commissioned by pianist Ursula Oppens.