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Orchestral Composition of the Day, Installment 5: Homage to Bach - Theme and 7 Variations on Prelude in C Minor (BWV 999)  harpsichord...

Orchestral Composition of the Day, Installment 5: Fantasypiece for Orchestra; composed for violoncello and contrabass in 2001, arranged...

Orchestral (Organ) Composition of the Day, Installment 4: Elegy on "In Paradisum"; 2 String Orchestra Versions & 1 Solo Organ Version...

Orchestral Composition of the Day, Installment 3: "The Expanses" (Intermezzo for Chamber Orchestra); version for piano: 1980; version for...

Orchestral Composition of the Day, Installment 2: "Elegiac Rondo" for String Orchestra (2018 | ca. 7 minutes) Begun in 2001 as an homage...

Orchestral Composition of the Day, Installment 1: "Azure Sunrise" Originally for Organ Duet, Arranged for Harp and String Orchestra;...

Choral Piece of the Day, FINAL Installment, No. 62: "Only from Blood Does Freedom Grow" for SATB Chorus and Piano or Orchestra (2024)...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 61: "My Red Boots" for SATB Chorus (divisi) unaccompanied (2024) The text for "My Red Boots" is one...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 60: "From Silent Night" (Dowland/Hoffman) Arranged for SATB Quartet or Chorus, Treble Viol or...

Choral Pieces of the Day, Installments 59A and B: Six Quartets, Op. 112, #1 “Sehnsucht” and #2 “Nächtens” by Johannes Brahms, Arranged...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 58: "Dormiva dolcemente" Reimagined (Gabrieli/Hoffman) (SATB/SATB, or 2 Brass Quartets, or Both)...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 57 : "The City In the Sea: Choral Tone Poem" for SATB Chorus (divisi ) and Orchestra (2022) (13:00)...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 56: "The Captain’s Daughter (On the Water)" for SATB Chorus and Piano or Orchestra (2021) Text by ...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 55: "Set No. 10 of Three Pieces" ("Like a Sick Eagle," "Luck and Work," "The Indians") arranged for...

Pasacalle Triste (Sad Passacaglia - Apotheosis of the circle of fifths) for string orchestra, will finally be available for sale from...

TEXT From my spirit’s gray defeat, From my pulse’s flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched...

Choral Piece of the Day, Installment 53: "Kindle the Taper" a Chanukah Fanfare for SATB Chorus and Piano, or optional Trumpet in B-flat,...

The Whole World Is a Very Narrow Bridge ( Kol ha’olam kulo gesher tsar me’od)  - (Hebrew - text by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and from...

Choral(/Vocal) Piece of the Day, Installment 51: Mists (Nebbie) Respighi/Hoffman, arr. SATB Chorus and Piano or Orchestra, or Medium...

The Expanses (Intermezzo for Piano, 1980) Arranged for Chamber Orchestra, 2024: The Expanses (Intermezzo for Chamber Orchestra). A gift...