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Michael Schelle

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Red Herring (2011), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Red Herring (2011), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

Michael Henson, clarinet Jay Young, tenor saxophone February 2013 Indianapolis, IN USA


Play Us Chastity On Your Violin (1984) Movement 3: Rhumbaba, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Play Us Chastity On Your Violin (1984) Movement 3: Rhumbaba, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For solo violin and chamber orchestra. Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Sherry Kloss, violin David Stock, conductor Pittsburgh, PA 1985 The title is a line taken from "THE GAS HEART", an iconic 1921 experimental / surrealistic play by Tristan Tzara. Commissioned by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and winner of the 1984 Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Competition, PLAY US CHASTITY ON YOUR VIOLIN was a conscious move to simplicity, economy, innocence and intimacy .... all things not evident in the composers music up to 1984 . .


Resilience (2015) Movement 3: Blast Of Silence, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Resilience (2015) Movement 3: Blast Of Silence, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

for viola, cello and orchestra - on the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2


Heartland (2007) Movement 2: Hawkeye Feeder, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Heartland (2007) Movement 2: Hawkeye Feeder, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For the great heartland state of Iowa, HAWKEYE FEEDER is the 2nd movement of the 7 movements of HEARTLAND (which was commissioned and premiered by the Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble at Symphony Space in NYC in March 2008).


Rain (2009), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Rain (2009), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

Text: Vladimir Nabokov Music: Michael Schelle Commissioned by the St. Petersburg (Russia) Chamber Orchestra Julia Kogan, soprano Jeffery Meyer, conductor This is an excerpt (the final 3:00 of the piece)


Sprechstisambastimme (2011), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Sprechstisambastimme (2011), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

THE LIGEIA QUARTET (Chicago) Cyril Wang, violin Ursula Steele, violin Alaina Rea, viola Joshua DeVries, cello


Resilience (2015) Movement 2: Rising Sun, Fallen Sky, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Resilience (2015) Movement 2: Rising Sun, Fallen Sky, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

for viola, cello and orchestra - on the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2


Extraction On No. 9 (2013) For Large Symphonic Wind Ensemble, A Consortium Commission From A Dozen Us Bands., Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Extraction On No. 9 (2013) For Large Symphonic Wind Ensemble, A Consortium Commission From A Dozen Us Bands., Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

This performance: BUTLER UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE Cond. by Robert Grechesky Indianapolis, IN USA May 2014


Samurai (1999), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Samurai (1999), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

In Memoriam: Akira Kurosawa - by MIchael Schelle Çommissioned and premiered by: Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Neal Gittleman, conductor January 2000 Schuster Center for the Performing Arts


Seven Steps From Hell (1985), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Seven Steps From Hell (1985), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

for large symphonic wind ensemble Commissioned by Illinois Wesleyan University Wind Ensemble Steven Eggleston, music director and conductor


Hammerstein (1995), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Hammerstein (1995), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For solo piano. Kate Boyd, piano. Commissioned as the required new work for the 16 semi-finalists of the 1995 International Piano Fellowship Competition of the American Pianists Association, HAMMERSTEIN is a "wink of the eye / tongue-in-cheek" etude that draws its aesthetic and "piano technique" inspiration from the classic etudes of Chopin, Scriabin and Max Reger. However, it draws more directly from the fusion of brief, distorted fragments of two specific iconic Beethoven sources: the HAMMERKLAVIER and the WALDSTEIN sonatas - and with a touch of OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN: a brief reference to Rogers and Hammerstein's "This Nearly Was Mine" (from …


Crashout (2004) For Orchestra, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Crashout (2004) For Orchestra, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

Commissioned by the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra Alfred Savia, music director and conductor


Mystic Mourning (2014) For Solo Violin, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass, Piano, Percussion And Voice, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Mystic Mourning (2014) For Solo Violin, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass, Piano, Percussion And Voice, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

temporary midi A meditation for six musicians and nine chanters (4:00 - 5:45) a.k.a. Mata Lakshmi Midi = i.e. none of the percussion or vocal parts (chanting, singing, etc.) in this recording. Premiere performance: 25 March 2014 Larry Shapiro, violin Additional file, review: http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/thoughts-on-a-michael-schelle-world-premiere/Content?oid=2803364#.U0El161dWf9


Godzilla Brillante (1997), Part 2, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Godzilla Brillante (1997), Part 2, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, tenor sax, doublebass, piano and percussion Frank Glover, clarinet and tenor sax David Bellman, clarinet and bass clarinet David Murray, doublebass Richard Ratliff, piano Paul Berns, percussion Michael Schelle conductor


Contraband (1991), Michael Schelle Mar 2016

Contraband (1991), Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

for band Commissioned by Kappa Kappa Psi & Indiana University Bands, Bloomington, IN First Performance: October 1991, IU Wind Symphony, Ray Cramer, conductor This performance: Butler University Symphonic Wind Ensemble Michael Schelle, conductor November 1998 Although there is a brief reference to THE UNTOUCHABLES theme (1960's TV crime program) at the very end, the main 'contraband' element of the piece is the use (and abuse) of a few brief "Tristan und Isolde" fragments - in the keys of B minor, B Major and E major (terrible keys for band). The final blow happens @ c. 8:20 when the low brass …


King Ubu (1980) Movement 3: Ubu In Chains, Michael Schelle Mar 2016

King Ubu (1980) Movement 3: Ubu In Chains, Michael Schelle

Michael Schelle

For large symphonic wind ensemble This is movement III. "Ubu in Chains"