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Richard Wayne Dirksen Centenary

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solo instrument

Incidental music for Galileo Galilei

Brecht’s play includes poetic quatrains before each scene as well as a marvelous “Ballad of the Orders” mocking society stratification. A humanist and satirical masterpiece. Audio includes music cues as well as Dirksen’s own digest of the full show.

A Wedding Prayer

Thank we all, Our God

A True Hymn

Really a sacred song – text by George Herbert – with optional obbligato instrument. For this commission Dirksen received ‘a case of excellent wine.’

Alleluia, A Newe Work is Come

From the 1961 York Cycle Play music.  Also available as a movement in the 1965 Suite for Organ, Trumpet and Handbells (D. 513).

Night

A haunting major / minor nocturne, suitable for unison or solo voices with optional flute obbligato.

The Nativity

Audio & Video. Another one of my TOP FIVE works.  The flute obbligato positively sparkles.

There standeth one among you

As it was in the days of Noah

O come, O come Emmanuel / Lo, how a rose e’er blooming,

Sonata for Strings, Clarinet & Piano

Sonata for Strings, Clarinet & Piano

Alleluia: a newe work

Sarabande from The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore

A Wedding Processional

Fanfare and Processional for a Wedding

Three Unicorn fanfares

These fanfares with a Sarabande processional opened productions of Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Unicorn, Gorgon and Manticore at the Cathedral in 1965 and 1976.

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