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Wind Ensemble


Through the Brightening Air (2017)
Written, in memory of composer Steven Stucky, 
for Mark Scattrday and the Eastman Wind Ensemble 
11 minutes
American Composers Edition
New Focus Recordings

Eastman Wind Ensemble
Mark Scatterday

Folgore's Months (2008)
soprano and wind ensemble
     February
     August
     May
     December
Commissioned by Mark Scatterday and the 
Eastman Wind Ensemble in consort with nine
other American wind ensembles, this work sets
four of the "month" poems of the 14th-century 
Italian poet Folgore da San Gimignano, in English
translations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Thow. 
"December" is dedicated to John Thow, in memoriam, 
and the set was written for soprano Tony Arnold.
15 minutes
Alfred Music
New Focus Recordings

Tony Arnold, soprano
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Scatterday, conductor

Soundings (1982)
Commissioned for the opening season of the 
Wharton Performing Arts Center, Michigan State University.
15 minutes
Keiser
New Focus Recordings

Eastman Wind Ensemble
Mark Scatterday

The Sacred Harp (1994)
Commissioned for the inauguration of Thomas Jackson as 
President of the University of Rochester.
8 minutes
Alfred Music
New Focus Recordings

Eastman Wind Ensemble
Mark Scatterday



Threads (1987)
14 minutes
American Composers Edition

 
Chasm (1998)
concert band
7 minutes
Keiser

 
 
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