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Alternations Number One for Seven Instruments 66.04
Flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, viola, cello
Performances: Northwestern University, James Bolle, dir., May 19, 1967; Chicago Chapter of the International Society of Contemporary Music, Latin School of Chicago, Easley Blackwood, dir., November 10, 1970; Concordia River Forest, Dana Perna, dir., April 21,1983
Alternations Number Two 67.01
Flute and piano Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 19, 1967
Cantilena for Horn and Organ 01.08
Divertimento for Five Instruments 67.02
Clarinet, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, piano
Distant Fanfare; Exterior Circle; Interior Landscape; Variation; Commentaries; Fanfare II Performance: Northwestern University, James Bolle, dir., May 19, 1967
Divertimento Number Two 83.03 / 03.11 (PDF downloadable file)(PDF file)(PDF file)(PDF file)
Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion, violin., viola., cello, bass
Foxtrot I (mp3 file); Pastorale; Foxtrot II (mp3 file); Ballad ; Tango (mp3 file) (arr. by David Osenberg); Burlesca (arr. by David Osenberg)
First performance: April 21, 1983, Concordia River Forest, IL
Fanfare for Chamber Orchestra 56.02 (PDF downloadable file)
28 players; Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood
For Goffredo Petrassi; Revision 2003
Fanfare for Chamber Orchestra 03.01 (mp3 file)
(Revision of 56.02)
Piccolo, flute, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, xylophone, vibraphone, snare drum, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, 6 violins, 4 violas, 4 violoncellos, 2 basses
First performance at Music of Richard Hillert I: Secular Music
October 19, 2003, Paul Nicholson, dir.
Fantasia on The Nunc dimittis 90.02 (PDF downloadable)
Chamber orchestra.: piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, strings
Based on LBW Nunc dimittis from Setting One
Founders' Day Festival Concert, February 4, 1990, Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, John Folkening,dir.
Festival Music for Brass, Timpani, and Organ 82.06
2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, organ
Prelude - Chaconne - Canzona
For church dedication, Zion Lutheran Church, Dallas, TX,
November 14, 1982, Donald Rotermund, dir.
Revision: Three Pieces for Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ (90.07)
For All the Saints 88.05
Arr. of SINE NOMINE (Ralph Vaughan Williams), for symphony orchestra
For the Celebration of Lutheran Unity, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago Members of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Michael Morgan, dir., Paul Manz, organist. Orchestra Hall, October 30, 1988
From Shepherding of Stars 98.04 (PDF downloadable)
Suite for string quartet, settings of SFIEPHERDING; Live Oak blouse, 1998
Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ 98.05
Partita for brass quartet, settings of GELOBET SEIST DU; Live Oak House, 1998
Incidental music for J. B. 62.07
Incidental music for drama by Archibald MacLeish
Alto and tenor saxophones, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, organ and piano
Concordia College, River Forest, November 1962
Incidental Music: The Redentin Play 60.01
Flute, recorders, guitar, bassoon
River Forest, IL, January - February 1960
Interlude 70.03
Horn and piano; also saxophone and piano
Interlude for Flute and Piano 97.04
Arr. of piano piece, 1948
Intonations and Interludes on Christmas Carols 62.04 (PDF downloadable file)
2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
Themes from: Joy to the World, The First Noel, What Child Is This, Lo How a Rose, Angels We Have Heard, It Came upon a Midnight Clear, O Come All Ye Faithful, Oh, How Joyfull
Intrada and Setting of Coronation 77.03
Brass quintet, and organ (or organ alone)
Music for Flute, Horn and Strings 00.03
Performed at Grace Lutheran Church, Northbrook, IL, June 11, 2000, Jonathan Kohrs, dir.
Music for J. B. 87.03
Synthesizer, songs and incidental music
Night Poem 84.02
English horn and piano
Of the Father's Love Begotten 69.05
Setting of DIVINUM MYSTERIUM; 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
Prelude and Interlude 83.04
Horn and piano
Prelude on Es ist ein Ros 00.07; String orchestra
Preludes, Interludes, Postludes on Christmas Carols 94.12 / 95.21
Set I: 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones.
Set II: flute, oboe, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, bass
Prelude to Evening Prayer 95.15/ 01.02 / 02.13 (PDF downloadable file) (PDF file)
2 oboes, English horn, string orchestra or Oboe and strings; or Flute and strings
Processional Music 91.01
Oboe and organ
Processional Prelude 91.02 (mp3 file)
Brass quintet, timpani, and organ
Rhosymedre, flute, oboe, strings 61.03 (PDF downloadable file)
Setting for flute, oboe, strings
Recorded for Lutheran Hour, St. Louis, Carl Schalk, dir.
Sonata for Baroque Flute and Harpsichord 99.01 (PDF downloadable file)
Allegro (mp3file); Lento (mp3 file) ; Allegretto Brioso (mp3 file)
First performance January 29, 1999, Andrew Scholberg, flute, Dennis Zimmer, harpsichord
Sonata for Flute and Piano 54.01
Three movements (Fast, Slow, Fast)
First performance: Northwestern University, May 13, 1954
Performed at Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, July 29, 1956
Sonata for Violin and Piano 53.01
Three movements (Fast, Slow, Fast)
First performance: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1954
Suite for Strings (Sesquicentennial on LaSalle) 96.04 (PDF downloadable file)
Prelude (mp3 file); Chorale Variations (mp3 file); Elegy: In Memoriam (mp3 file);
Contredanse (mp3 file); Ecologue (mp3 file); Affirmation (mp3 file)
For 150 Anniversary of First St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Chicago (1846-1996), April 21, 1996, Paul Nicholson, dir.
Symphony in Three Movements 55.01
Movements II and III performed University of Illinois, Champaign, May 13, 1956
The Pillars 89.04/ 91.07
Academic Processional for Wind Symphony
For the 125th anniversary of Concordia College, River Forest, IL, October 15, 1989, Richard Fischer, dir.
Three Christmas Carols for Brass Quartet 92.08 (PDF downloadable)
In dulci jubilo; Coventry Carol; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Three Christmas Carols for Brass Quintet 02.14
2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba
In dulci jubilo; The Coventry Carol; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Three Christmas Carols for Brass Sextet 62.05
2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
In dulci jubilo; The Coventry Carol; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
CPH 1964
Three Pieces for Brass Quintet, Timpani, and Organ 90.07
Rev. of Festival Music 82.06
First performance. Lectures in Church Music, November 5, 1990,
St. John's Lutheran Church, Forest Park, IL, Concordia Brass Quintet, Steven Wente, organ
Two Processional Pieces 03.03
Brass quartet, timpani, organ
Valse Sentimentale 94.08 (PDF downloadable)
For 2 Violins
Variations for Orchestra 68.03
Piccolo, 2 flutes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion (4 players), harp, celesta, strings
Northwestern University, D. Mus. Thesis, July 1968
Veni Creator Spiritus 03.17 (mp3 file)
2 trumpets, horn, 2 trombones, tuba