bees, please!
Music about the disappearance of honeybees.
Sample Program:
Sarah Davol Etude in d minor (The Bee)
Guillaume Balay L'Aurore Sur La Forét
Edward MacDowell An Old Garden
Rimsky-Korsakoff Flight of the Bumblebee
Elise Carter Honeybee
Intermission
Edwin Avril To Be a Bee (or not to be)
Kevin Kim The Lone Queen
Marilyn Bliss. The Discovery of Honey
Frédéric Chopin The Bees
John McMurtery Hive Mind
Edward MacDowell To a Wild Rose (arr. Mitch Kriegler)
Woodwind quintet or Woodwind quintet and piano
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music of the WETLANDS
Music about wetlands and their inhabitants.
Sample Program:
Kevin Mallon The Reeds Grew Brighter
Sarah Davol Estuary
Dawn Avery Tulpe
Edwin Avril The Jersey Devil’s March
through the Marshes
Intermission
György Ligeti First Bagatelle
Mira Spektor Provincetown Suite
Vincent Persichetti Pastorale
Ann Ronell Willow Weep for Me
Tomoko Ohno Waterplay
Woodwind quintet, piano and percussion
the heart of the wood
Music about conserving trees and forest inhabitants
Sample Program:
Margaret Lowe Dawn Carol
R.J. Kelley Aubade
Kenneth Bray Song of the Deer
Eric Ewazen The Summit
Sarah Davol Roots
Intermission
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Flight of the Bumblebee
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. October Autumn Song
Joseph Kosma Autumn Leaves
Ann Ronell Willow Weep for Me
Gregory Rossetti Cyclogenesis
Woodwind quintet and piano
music for monarchs
Classical and Jazz music about the miraculous journey of the Monarch Butterfly
Sample Program:
Martha Sullivan Wingspan
Joan Tower A Little Gift
Valerie Coleman Danse de la Mariposa
Juventino Rosas Flores de Mexico
Paquito D'Rivera Aires Tropicales
Intermission
Sarah Davol Long Road Back
Binnette Lipper Homage to a Monarch Butterfly
Herbie Hancock Butterfly
Tomoko Ohno Chou
Woodwind quintet, piano and percussion