About the Ensemble Ensemble Members Upcoming Performances Sample Programs Debut CD Aspects MP3s Picture Gallery Contact Info		A SELECTION OF PAST PROGRAMS First Works - Where It All Began Dust off your lederhosen and get with the program... The arrival and technological development of the clarinet in 19th century Germany combines with the already rich tradition of art song to inspire these first extraordinary works for soprano, clarinet and piano trio led by Schubert's masterpiece Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. Sechs deutsche Lieder, op. 103 (1837) - Louis Spohr Drei Lieder (1843) - Gottfried Herrmann Das Mühlrad (1857) - Conradin Kreutzer Seit ich ihn gesehen, op. 82 (1831) - Franz Lachner Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, op. 129, D. 965 (1828) - Franz Schubert Portraits - Musical Views of America Return to the sounds of jazz, Appalachian folk tunes, ragtime, sophisticated NY cabaret... These musical pearls are all portals in time. To hear them today is to experience the very moment in which they were conceived, the very essence of their time. Enjoy these snapshots of 20th century America. Selections from Bits and Pieces - Seymour Barab Two 2-steps - Scott Joplin Old American Songs arr.Aaron Copland Sonata for clarinet and piano - Leonard Bernstein New York! A Foxtrot - Georges Auric Rhapsody for solo clarinet - Willson Osborne The Conceptual Wheel - Meyer Kupferman Survival of the Fittest - Living American Composers From the dramatic to the ethereal, see how far we've come since Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock... Experience the beautiful music of five living American composers, all compelling storytellers, whose tales are by turns outspoken, elegant and experimental. Though Men Call Us Free - Sharon Davis Three Songs for Soprano and Clarinet - Marshall Bialosky I Never Saw Another Butterfly - Thomas Oboe Lee Six Japanese Songs - Margaret Garwood Letters to Walt Whitman - Dinu Ghezzo Babar, Bumblebees and Bliss - An Afternoon With Mirage There's a bit of something for everyone... The whole family will delight in this hilarious, exciting and theatrical program filled with wonderful stories both sung and spoken. Two Nursery Rhymes - Arthur Bliss Ten Miracles: A Song Cycle to Children's Poems - Lawrence Moss Four Folk Song Upsettings - PDQ Bach The Story of Babar, the little elephant - Francis Poulenc The Flight of the Bumblebee - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Enchanting Sounds of Spring Two birds, some sheep and a hurdy-gurdy... From Mozart's signature laughter to the joyful dances of the Auvergne, celebrate spring with this lyrical, charming and impressively virtuosic selection of musical gems. Le Printemps from Cantates Françoises, op. 5 (1724) - J. Bodin de Boismortier Three Songs of Innocence (1957) - Arnold Cooke Schon lacht der holde Frühling, KV 580 (1789) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Chants d'Auvergne: Bourrées (1924) - Marie-Joseph Canteloube