The Cleveland Composers Guild

Music Library

Music by Cleveland Composers

ClevelandComposers.org will soon be home to a database of works by our members, which you will be able to search for works of all types. Audio samples and links to publishers and composer homepages will be included. Please bookmark our website and come back later in 2008 for these exciting features.

Commercial Releases

"Telling Tales": Music from the Cleveland Composers Guild (Capstone CPS-836) 2004

Available from the Guild (email Jeffrey Quick) or your favorite online music dealer.

  • Rudolph Bubalo: Clarinet Concerto
    (Cleveland Chamber Symphony with Eric Mandat. Conducted by Edwin London)
  • HyeKyung Lee: conFUsion/comBUstion
    (HyeKyung Lee, piano)
  • Jeffrey Mumford: barbaglio dal manca
    (Toyen Tonnu, piano)
  • Jennifer Conner: A Teller of Tales, a suite of stories from childhood
    (Thomas Trenney, organ)
  • Michael Leese: Music for harp, percussion & strings
    (Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Conducted by Lucas Richman)
  • Daniel McCarthy: Chamber Symphony No. 3 for clarinet & orchestra
    (The Interlochen Faculty Chamber Players with Kimberly Cole, clarinet. Conducted by Steven Ward)
  • Nikola Resanovic: Sonata for flute & piano
    (George Pope, flute; Eric Charnofsky, piano)
  • Margaret Griebling-Haigh : Vistas desde el Balcón, for piano trio
    (Michi Wiancko, violin; Eric Charnofsky, piano ; Clement Chow, cello)
  • Ty Alan Emerson: Birch Whispers
    (Bridgett Crocker Emerson, flute; Jocelyn Chang, harp)
  • Nicholas Underhill: Sextet for flute, string quartet & piano
    (Mary Beth Ions and Laura Martin, violin; Linda Atherton, cello; Sean Gabriel, flute; Nicholas Underhill, piano; Nikki Dival, viola)
  • Dolores White: Three Movements for 2 violins, viola & cello
    (Cara Tweed and Alicia Koeli, violin; Jennifer Arnold, viola; Stephen Fang, cello)

The following are commercial LPs devoted to works by Cleveland Composers Guild members. All of the albums listed here are unfortunately out of print. If you would like to hear works by our members, please see the members own pages or attend one of our concerts!

Cleveland Composers Guild V. 1 (CRI 182)

  • Klaus George Roy: Canticle of the Sun, Op.17 (1950)
  • Bain Murray: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1962)
  • Howard Whittaker: Cantata- Behold, He cometh with Clouds (1951)
  • Hale Smith: In Memoriam-Beryl Rubinstein (1953)
  • Raymond Wilding-White: Paraphernalia-A Regalia of Madrigalia from Ezra Pound

Cleveland Composers Guild V.2 (CRI183)

  • Donald Erb: Sonata for Harpsichord and String Quartet (1962)
  • Rudolph Bubalo: Three Pieces for Brass Ensemble (1959)
  • Marcel Dick: Suite for Piano (1959)
  • Juli Nunlist: Two Piano Pieces (1961)
  • Jane Corner Young: Dramatic Soliloquy for Piano (1961)

Music from Cleveland (Advent USR5004)

  • Julius Drossin: String Quartet #6, Op.33 (1963)
  • Frederick Koch: Trio of Praise (1966)
  • Rudolph Bubalo: Five Pieces for Brass Quintet and Percussion (1964)
  • John White: Variations for Clarinet and Piano (1971)

Music from Cleveland Volume 1, no.2 (Advent USR5005)

  • Bain Murray: On the Divide (1970)
  • Walter Watson: Five Japanese Love Poems (1969)
  • Juli Nunlist: Spells (1963)
  • Joscelyn Godwin: Epistle to Harmodius (1966)
  • James Waters: Dirge (1969)
  • Jane Young: We People (1967)

Cleveland Composers Guild V.1 (Crystal S531)

  • Koch: String Quartet
  • Timm: Joiner & Die-Hard for 5 percussion
  • Erb: Harold's Trip to the Sky & Sonneries for brass ensemble

Cleveland Composers Guild v. 2 (Crystal S532)

  • Bain Murray: Three Songs (He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven/Now Close the Windows/A Fence)
  • Walter Watson: Recital Piece for Marimba (with piano)
  • Reynold Weidenaar: The Tinsel Chicken Coop, for your Usual Magnetic Tape
  • Larry Baker: Before Assemblages III
  • Eugene O'Brien: Lingual for Soprano, Flute, and Cello

Group Publications

These folios are available from ECS Publishing, along with various individual publications (listed on the proper composers' page). There was also a series from Ludwig Music of Cleveland, but that did not include any group folios.

Contemporary Art Song Album for Medium Voice (GMC2504) $10.75

  • Raymond Wilding-White: Four William Blake Songs
  • Bain Murray: Now Close the Windows
  • Juli Nunlist: Oh, When I Was in Love with You
  • John White: The Lamb
  • Starling Cumberworth: Two Macabre Whims
  • Frederick Koch: Prayers of Steel
  • Walter Watson: Words for Sleep
  • Klaus George Roy: A Song for Mardi Gras
  • James Waters: War is Kind

Contemporary Art Song Album for High Voice - $10.25

  • Klaus George Roy: Holiday
  • Starling Cumberworth: Three Chinese Love Lyrics
  • John White: A Cradle Song
  • Frederick Koch: Three Songs from 'The Children's Set'
  • Susan Krausz: Berceuse
  • Raymond Wilding-White: Three Housman Poems

Piano Music for the Young: Early Grade Contemporary Repertoire (GMC2444)

  • Bain Murray: Conversation, Russian Dance, The Christmas Carol, The Bird and the Cat
  • Starling Cumberworth: Carley
  • Klaus George Roy: Six Canons for Chris
  • Frederick Koch: Swinging Easy, Skateboard Fun (duet)
  • Juli Nunlist: Russian Song, Little March
  • Jane Young: "I Won't Go!" "Oh, Yes, You Will!"

Piano Music for the Young, Book 2: Intermediate Grade Contemporary Repertoire (GMC1.2505.2)

  • Bain Murray: Two Pieces from the Children's Suite
  • Federick Koch: Solemnity, Toccatina
  • Lindsey Merrill: London Bridge is Falling Down
  • Starling Cumberworth: Tempo di Waltzer, Playfully
  • Walter Watson: Three Whims
  • Raymond Wilding-White: Cartoon and Character Sketches
  • John White: Why Not?
  • Klaus George Roy: Three Turns of the Key
  • Frank Boehnlein: A Moon Child's Piano Book.