Stanley M. Hoffman: spartiti medio

Un'opera che commuoverà sia l'esecutore che gli ascoltatori, il testo esplora le condizioni estreme dell'Olocausto e l'impatto sulle sue vittime, per cori avanzati.

This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015). The music is very much a text painting, shift...

Composed in 1984 and revised in 1993, Of all the souls that stand create for baritone and piano (Catalog No. 8407) is a setting of a poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886). The music features f...

A creative and unusual work, The Gale uses text painting, sound effects, and crafty choral writing to bring to life the text written by Abraham ('Abramek') Koplowicz, a Jewish boy who was exterminated...

Composed in 1984 and revised in 1993, Of all the souls that stand create for baritone and piano (Catalog No. 8407) is a setting of a poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886). The music features f...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

A soaring, joyful, unaccompanied motet in F major. (Keyboard reduction provided.) Notated on five staves with the soprano 1 and 2 on their own staves. However, all parts below that also divide very oc...

Nel creare un arrangiamento corale di questo brano nel 2011, ho cercato di rimanere il più fedele possibile alla partitura vocale del compositore del 1894 e a quella per orchestra da camera del 1897....

Do You Love for Beauty? (Liebst du um Schönheit) is the second of Mahler's Rückert songs arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman for mixed chorus, the first one being Into This World I Came As a Lost One (Ich...

Completed on November 11, 2008, this work was commissioned by Carolina Brass who gave it its world premiere performance on April 17, 2010, at Brass Fest, Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC.