David Avshalomov conducting the Long Beach Symphony
DAVID AVSHALOMOV - Composer - Conductor - Singer


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ORIGINAL WORKS
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VOICE

Calm, high voice and piano (Minna Coe) [4] (1971)
A Mind of Winter, baritone voice, strings, harp; or piano (Doris Avshalomov) [5] (1985)
Goodnight Moon, baritone voice, keyboard [3] (1986)
You Can’t Have It All, baritone voice, theater ensemble (lyric by the composer) [4] (1986)
Orchestra Song with variations, soprano and orchestra, theme for Let’s Grow an Orchestra, schoolchild’s interactive concert introduction to the orchestra, lyric by composer [12] (1989)
Hashkiveinu, contralto [low] voice, piano [5] (1999)
    Commissioned by Cantor Shula Merton, Temple Beth El, Orange County, CA
The Last Act, low voice, piano (Louise Bogan) [6] (2000)
The Ceremony of Innocence, bass/baritone, piano (Yeats, The Second Coming) [8] (2000)
    Also available with orchestral accompaniment
Ozymandias, bass/baritone, piano (Shelley) [6] (2000)
    Also available with orchestral accompaniment
4 Songs of Life/4 Songs of Death/Tango (encore), bass/baritone, piano (Dickinson) [18] (2000)
    Also available with orchestral accompaniment as Songs of Life/Songs of Death
Two Households, tenor and baritone, opt. guitar (Shakespeare: Prologue to Romeo and Juliet) [2] (2002)

CHORUS

U.S. 30 in Idaho, a cappella chorus SSAATB (Doris Avshalomov) [2] (1961)
Song for Late Summer, a cappella chorus SATB (Doris Avshalomov) [4] (1962)
The U.S. Air Force Fugue, (unofficial) for TTBB male voices a cappella, based on
    “Off we Go, Into the Wild Blue Yonder” [3] (1972)
Father The Tree, a cappella chorus SATB (Doris Avshalomov) [4] (1981)
Go Ahead and Rejoice, a cappella chorus SATB (Doris Avshalomov) [3] (2002)
Principles, secular oratorio on texts of Thos. Jefferson, male chorus TTBB with divisi,
solo baritone, concert band [32] (1993-4)
Kedushah for the High Holy Days, chorus SATB, solo tenor, piano, flute [5] (1997)
    Commissioned by Cantor Mark Saltzman, Sha’arei Am Synagogue, Santa Monica
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, a cappella chorus SATB with occasional divisi (Wm. Blake),
cycle of 45 individual settings [104] (2001-2)
Where You Go, I Will Go (Ruth and Naomi), a cappella women’s chorus SSAA with solos [12] (2003)
   Commissioned by Chris Rhodes, Santa Monica High School choral director
The Star Spangled Banner, arranged for barbershop quartet or ensemble, TTBB [1:45], for the Santa Monica High School (Samohi) Barbershop Gentlemen of 2004 and beyond (and my son Zachary)

SOLO INSTRUMENT

Winter Mood, solo piano [2] (1964)
Variations on a Beethoven Theme, solo violoncello [12] (1989)
Torn Curtain suite, viola and piano [32] (1991). Written for my brother Daniel.
[Concerto con Timpani - see ORCHESTRA]
Elegy, arranged for solo violin with piano [8] (1992)
Sonata for Violoncello with piano [28] (1997)
The Last Poet’s Farewell, unaccompanied solo violin [22] (1999)
Sonata for solo Harp, [14] (1999)
Sonata for Flute with Piano [27] (2000)
Sonata Breve for Oboe with piano [15] (2002)
    Commissioned by Aaron and Amelia Neustadt

CHAMBER WORKS

Chiaroscuro, pitched percussion quartet [5] (1958/63)
Around the Year, four seasonal miniatures for woodwind quintet [15] (1965/2002)
Diversion, violin and timpani [5] (1966)
Brass Rondo, brass quartet [8] (1967)
Exeunt Omnes, recessional, brass quartet [4] (1968)
Canzona, brass quartet [2] (1970)
Intrada (Louis XIV style), arr. for brass [1] (2003)
Allegro, pitched percussion quartet [5] (1972)
    First Prize, Aspen Festival Composition Competition
String Quartet [24] (1974/79)
Drum Role, final variation from Lifeboat Variations, all the standard
non-pitched percussion instruments, 5-8 players [2] (Finalist, Korg contest 1989)
Air, woodwind trio [3] (1975)
Dance, violin and (student) piano [3] (1995)

ORCHESTRA

Siege [7] (1967/95/99) (see also BAND)
Arietta, flute and strings (opt. 2nd flute) [2] (1979)
The Sky’s the Limit, fanfare [1:30] (1987)
Starry Night, processional, [2] (1987)
Intrada: Le Grand Condé, baroque orchestra [1] (1989
Elegy, string orchestra [8] (1990)
Ouverture: Augustus the Strong, baroque orchestra [2] (1990)
Concerto con Timpani, "Battaglia" (baroque style), with strings and harpsichord [12] (1992)
    (Composed under the nom de guerre, “G. F. Salomon”)
Pangs of Love, variations on a Rachmaninoff melody, string orchestra, [31] (2002-3)
    Commissioned by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Barbara Day Turner, Music Director

BAND

Siege, concert band (transcription/revision of orchestral version) [7] (1969)
Spring Rondo, concert band (transcription of Brass Rondo) [8] (1971)
Life’s a Dreamboat, concert band, opt. narrator, an “Every Person’s Guide to the Band,” comprising:
  • Lifeboat Variations [22] (1970-80)
  • Cornucopia of Rounds [12] (1976-80)
Glockenspiel March, novelty, marching band or concert band [3] (1968/97)
Prime Time, Toccata Brillante [11] (2000)

ARRANGEMENTS AND TRANSCRIPTIONS

ORCHESTRA
Let’s Grow an Orchestra, a schoolchild’s interactive concert introduction to the orchestra, with soprano/narrator. Original script, original Orchestra Song with several variations, and selection and arrangement of short excerpts from standard orchestral repertoire. Commissioned and performed by the Long Beach Symphony for Kinderkonzerts, 1989/1990, with the composer conducting. [45]

PITCHED PERCUSSION
Transcriptions of short keyboard works by Bach, Schumann, Bartok, Schoenberg, Ravel, for pitched percussion ensemble, 2-10 players (1968, 1977, 1995). List available on request.

BAND/MALE CHORUS
Arrangements and scoring of music, concert and popular, for performances by the USAF Band and Singing Sergeants, 1970-72, several led by the composer, including a medley from the Beatle’s Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

PUBLICATION

Raven's Head Logo All works published by the composer as Raven Music editions, most in professionally engraved performance materials (earliest works in professional manuscript).


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