FULL ORCHESTRA SCORES
Symphony For Vietnam Veterans
Symphony for Vietnam Veterans was composed in 1990 as a string quartet and subsequently orchestrated for full orchestra in 1991 and wind ensemble in 2011. In 2025 to better speak to my service in Vietnam and those Veterans who served with me, the score was retitled as above. A 2025 version has also been orchestrated for string orchestra.
It is in 4 Chapters, with Chapters 1 and 2 completed.
Duration: 19 minutes
VIDEO RECORDING:
Chapter 1 and 2 (With personal photos from the Vietnam War 1970)
A Veterans Lament
A Veterans’ Lament was composed as part of the string quartet “Into The Liquid”, commissioned by the New York City-based Ethel Quartet in 2013.
It is included as the 3rd chapter of the quartet version titled, “Adult Years".
A Veterans' Lament has an added introduction, and is orchestrated for full orchestra, string orchestra wind ensemble and string quartet with piano. These arrangements continues the composers mission to use music to bring visibility to veterans and their service to country.
Duration: 4 minutes
Fanfare For Life
Fanfare For Life
Fanfare For Life
Fanfare for Life was commissioned by AT&T and premiered May 6, 1994 by the Chicago Sinfonietta at Orchestra Hall in Chicago under the baton of Paul Freeman. I composed this work in direct response to the outgrowth of gang violence during that same year.. I subsequently orchestrated it for Wind Ensemble in 2003.
Duration: 4 minutes.
Buffalo Soldiers
Fanfare For Life
Fanfare For Life
The score includes two optional narrations, one delivered by Abraham Lincoln and the other from a speech delivered by General Colin Powell to celebrate the unveiling of the Buffalo Soldier statue at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1992. Of note was General Powell's endorsement of the use of his words.
Duration: 17min
RECORDING