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[Moderately difficult; c.4:30] The music for choir and brass sextet (3 trumpets, 3 trombones) is in three sections following closely the text. “O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise Him, all [...]

[C difficulty, c.4:30] This dramatic work “is in modified sonata-form: an exposition comprised of fast and slow themes, a development based on materials of the exposition, and a recapitulation [...]

This work was written many years ago when the use of electronic technology—tape recorder and synthesizer—was entering the scene as a serious means of musical expression.  I thought for this piece [...]

[Very difficult; c.8:15]  This piano piece was revised in 1996 and performed by a very talented colleague, Laurel Brettell, at my retirement concert. It is based on a shortened blues chord [...]

[AA difficulty, c.21:00] “For some time I have been interested in creating music that embraces world concepts, primarily and perhaps simply because I like many aspects of musics from other [...]

San Francisco Bay Area composer, Brent Heisinger (1937), was born and raised in Stockton, California, began piano study at five and trombone lessons at seven. He and his physician brother Dale [...]

[C difficulty, c.4:30] March for Timpani and Brass was written for Bonnie Lynn Adelson when she was a timpanist at Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California.  She went on to study at [...]