Orchestra


 

Symphony No. 1 (1957) 25'

For strings and seven percussion
Premiere: January 31,1957
Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
New Arts Orchestra

Medea Suite (1963) 18'

For Orchestra
2.2.2.2/2.2,2,1 timp. 3 perc/strings
Premiere: July 1964
Jerusalem, Israel, Kol Israel Orchestra

Elegy, Fanfare and March (1964) 10'

2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp, 4 perc/strings
Commissioned by Cosmopolitan Youth Orchestra
Premiere: March 14,1965
Carnegie Hall, NY, NY
Serenus 12016

There's Us, There's Them, Together? (1967) 14-30"

2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timp, 3 perc/strings, solo jazz ensemble
Toccata and Fugue
Hallelujah Chorus
Hades Blues

Commissioned by the Denver Symphony for the jazz ensemble
Conal Implosion
Premiere: 1967

Great American Cowboy Suite (1979) 12"

From Academy Award winning documentary The Great American Cowboy
Breakout and Ride
Championship Belt
Read to Head Competition
Killer Horse
Title and Oldest Living Cowboy
Mud Rodeo
Clowns
Bulldanm
Back Home

2(picc), 2.2.2/4.5.3.1/timp, 3 perc/guitar (or cl), banjo (or piano)/strings
Premiere: April 16,1980
Westchester State College Orchestra, Lancaster, PA
Jacques Voois, conductor

Mud Rodeo (1979) 3'30"

The Great American Cowboy Suite - Excerpt
2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/rimp, 3 perc/strings

The (YOU-NAME-IT!) March (1982)

Written for Lewis and the Alien Stevenson Orchestra
The name in YOU-NAME-IT may be changed to suit the school or occasion, spelled by the orchestra players during performance.
(2 pice), 2.2.2/4,4(4th is ad-lib) 3.1/rimp,3 perc/srrings
Premiere: December 1982
The Alien Stevenson School Orchestra, New York, NY
Stanley Gauger, conductor

A Summer's Day in Central Park(1987) 14'30"

A musical portrait for orchestra
2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/timp, 2-3 perc/srrings
Premiere: January 21,1988
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Concordia; Marin Alsop, conductor

Little Boy/Girl and the Tree Branch (2001) 12'

for Narrator and small (single winds-brass)
or regular classical-sized orchestra (incl harp, extra percussion)
For Youth or Children's Concerts
Text by Harold Farberman
Premier-Garden Sttate Philharmonic
Raymond Wokcik, cond.-2002
Recorded-Albany Troy 497

"...........I loved every minute of it (12 minutes long)..... and I hope they (young audiences) have the opportunity to experience it. Thea Mann deliver's a captaviting performance"—MacDonald-American Record Guide-3/05