Betsy Schramm Catalog

Publishers:

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Fred Bock Music Companies

National Music Publishers

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Betsy Schramm Music www.BetsySchramm.net

Betsy Schramm  Catalog  

Canto dell Balena                                                              (11:00)                            2023

full orchestra, December 8, 9, 2023 premiere by Lowell Chamber Orchestra, Orlando Cela, conductor, work in progress

Escapades                                                                             (6:00)                              2022

flute and string orchestra, September  29, 2023 premiere by Menotomy Chamber Ensemble, Amy Sue Dombach, flute

Fanfare for the Dance: The Sun Also Rises                   (2:57)                             2022

full orchestra, March 9, 2024 premiere by Corpus Christi Symphony, Hector Guzman, conductor

Celestial Voyage                                                                 (8:30)                              2021 

Arlington High School Orchestra, Tino D’Agostino, conductor, premiered June 2021  

Psalm 121: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (6:47)         2020

SATB Chorus  and Organ 

Of Earthly Matters                                                            (13:20)                            2020 

full orchestra  

American Symphony          (24:30)       2019

I. We the People

II. Gettysburg

III. The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends Towards Justice

IV. Beautiful Earth, Bella Terra  

The Persistence of Memory             (9:49)          2017

I. As Timelessness to Time

II. Fantasia

III. In 5 - the Sea 

 solo piano written for and premiered by Andrea Beriyeva 

Sonata for Solo Viola             (8:30)         2016

written for and premiered by Amelia Hollander Ames 

Holy, Holy, Holy                              (5:30)  2016     

brass quintet, organ, and percussion 

Chicago Gargoyle Brass commission 

A Mighty Fortress                                          (7:45)                         2015    

 brass quintet, organ, and percussion 

Chicago Gargoyle Brass commission 

Boston Inspires                                         (7:24)                             2014    

trumpet and percussion

I. Museum of Fine Arts Winter Afternoons

II. Public Garden Springtime

III. Boston Harbor Views 

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo, trumpet, and Gregory Beyer, percussion 

Illusions of the Masque                (8:07)                revised  2014     

brass quintet 

on Arrays of Light CD with members of the Chicago Gargoyle Brass    

 2nd prize International Trumpet Guild 1990  

 Transformations                           (10:47)                2011, 2014

I. Paired Metamorphosis

II.   Clarion Calls

III. Undulating Waves

IV. Dawn Echoes

V. Air   

VI. Tangled

VII. Homage a Hindemith 

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo and David Gauger, trumpets 

for Mark Ponzo and Andrew Sorg, trumpets (Boston Tour) 

Toccata                        (3:20)       2013 

for Holly Roadfeldt, piano, Mars Hill New Music Festival  

Summer Suite for Burnside (6:30)        2013

I.  Afternoon Thunderstorm

II. Ocean Waves 

Burnside Music Festival Orchestra Commission, 

Jing-Huey Wei, conductor  

Exquisitries                                                   (14:57) 2012 

I.Shimmerings  

II.Ascension  

III.Terpsichore 

for New England String Quartet, 

Arlington/Massachusetts Cultural Council commission 

Three Pieces for String Quartet                (11:38) 2012  

for New England String Quartet, 

Arlington/Massachusetts Cultural Council commission 

Light Excelleth Darkness             (12:45)         2012

I.  Light Excelleth Darkness

II.  Crucible

III. Fair as the Moon, Clear as the Sun  

(Trumpet and String Quartet Version)

for Andrew Sorg, trumpet and New England String Quartet  

Somber                       (8 hours)       2012

looping sound installation for David Lloyd Brown, artist, 

Boston Center for the Arts Studio Installation 

Fantasy and Dances for Solo Violin         (9:39)      2011 

for Ricardo Odriozola, premiered in Bergen, Norway and Arlington Menotomy Series  

Restless Airs                          (7:56)       2011

I.Restless Airs                             

II. Incandescence

III. Navigations 

for Mark Ponzo, trumpet, Boston, Wisconsin, and Illinois Tour 

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo, trumpet 

Terry Everson, trumpet, BU CD Release Concert, 2015

Words of War/Letters of War                         (42:26) 2009

Prelude - War Quotes 

Come Up From the Fields Father (Walt Whitman) 

Letters of War I 

Blow, Bugles, Blow (Walt Whitman) 

Letters of War II 

My Portion is Defeat Today (Emily Dickinson) 

Letters of War III 

The Grass (Carl Sandburg) 

Finale

Rep. Jay Kaufman, narrator          

Melanie Salisbury, soprano, 

Charles Blandy, tenor, 

Betsy Schramm, conductor         

flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, violin I, violin II, cello, piano, percussion.  

Gold Star Award Massachusetts Cultural Council  

Arlington/Massachusetts Cultural Council commission  

Suite for Flugelhorn                                     (10:23) 2009 

I. Prisms  

II. Reflections      

III. Mirrors  

IV. Dance 

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo, flugelhorn 

Mark Ponzo, flugelhorn, Boston, Wisconsin, and Illinois Tour  

Three Pieces for String Orchestra                 (12:30)         2008 

Premiered on Inaugural Concert of Cambridge Chamber Players, 

Harvard University,  Betsy Schramm, conductor  

Luminous Duo                                               (9:00)         2007

I. Moonbeams

II.  Bright Suns

III.  Starlight 

Mark Ponzo, trumpet, Greg Beyer, percussion, 

BetsySchramm Visiting Composer NIU  

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo, trumpet, and Gregory Beyer, percussion 

Light Excelleth Darkness                          (12:45)         2007   

I.  Light Excelleth Darkness

II.  Crucible

III. Fair as the Moon, Clear as the Sun 

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo, trumpet and Jeong Soo Kim, piano  

Commission from NIU for Betsy Schramm Visiting Composer 

Holy, Holy, Holy                                              (4:23)         2006 

for John Bernthal retirement, solo organ, premiered St. Louis  

the roses of the day grow deep (e.e.cummings)   (18:30)         2005 

i. the mountains are dancing  

ii. spring! may   

iii. i have dreamed  

Melanie Salisbury, soprano, Martin Thomson, tenor,   

Jill Deeben, flute, Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello, Steve Yenger, piano  Betsy Schramm, conductor, 

Lumen Composer Series 

Postcard From America                                (2:45)                2005 

Arlington High School Honors String Orchestra European Tour   

Hello from America    SSAB                     (1:45)                2005  

The Second Coming (W.B. Yeats, prayers)       (18:20)         2004 

Martin Thomson, tenor, Melanie Salisbury and Jo Schlegel, sopranos,                   

Diane Droste, alto, with flute, violin, cello, piano, Betsy Schramm, conductor 

Lumen Composer Series 

 Alice and the White Rabbit       (12:00)          2004                                                                  (Carroll, Lear, and Schramm)                                  

Solar Winds, wind quintet, Betsy Schramm, narrator 

Arlington Public Schools, Arlington/Massachusetts Cultural Council Commission 

Papillon                SSAB     (5:00)       2000  

Alleluia        SATB, handbells, organ                (6:00)                          2000  

Hosanna    SATB                                                (2:00)              1999 

premiered by University Lutheran Choir, Cambridge Massachusetts    

and leap into the ripe air (e.e.cummings)           (21:00)               1998     

i. the hills like poets     

ii. the silver of the moon     

iii.  in the rain darkness

mezzo soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, ‘cello, piano, perc. 

for The New Millenium Ensemble, Mary Nessinger,  

premiered Columbia University, Miller Theater, New York City  

American Mosaic   in 3 movements for orchestra     (17:00)          1996  

premiered by the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Ballet,

Yong Yan Hu, conductor Allen Fields, choreography  

1996 Duluth, Minnesota

while east deserves of dawn (e.e.cummings)       (23:00)         1998 

i. the poem of thy remembrance  

ii. thy hair is acold with dreams   

iii. the flinger of fire            

 soprano, flute,  clarinet, violin, 'cello, piano, percussion  

Jane Manning and Jane’s Minstrels  

Roger Montgomery, conductor  

BBC Radio3 Hear and Now, 

recorded and broadcast BBC Radio3          

Alice and the White Rabbit’s Opera         (32:00)         1994

(Carroll, Lear, and Schramm)              

narrator, flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, ‘cello, piano, percussion. 

premiered at Boston Musica Viva Family Concert 

BMV commission, Richard Pittman, conductor  

a sun will always sing  (e.e. cummings)          (3:00)         1994 

Margaret Kohler, soprano, on Margret Kohler Soprano CD,  

John Kleshinski Music Series, Boston Music Center, Melanie Salisbury, Soprano 2013

 Wings of the Wind                                      (13:15)         1994

clarinet in Bb, bassoon or cello, piano 

Music Fix Commission, 

premiered New York University 

 Sedna: Images of the Alaskan Eskimo         (16:00)         1993

I. Nerivik

II. AniliTaumna

III. Kaylukuk         

flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, ‘cello, piano, percussion. 

Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman, conductor 

Barlow Endowment Commission 

Q'eros                                                      (20:00)         1992

I. Huayna Capac

II. Atahualpa

III. Quena         

fl/picc., ob.,Bb cl./ b. cl., pno, 2 vlns., vc., db, perc. 

prremiered by Lontano in London, Odaline de la Martinez, conductor

London Arts Board Commission    

in Just- spring (e.e. cummings)                        (4:30)         1992 

flute and soprano, 

South Shore Music, Laura Barron, flute  

Intimations                                                          (7:00)         1991         '

cello and piano 

Washington State Young Artists Tour 

premiered by Elizabeth Simkin, cello, and Jill Dawe, piano

Starlight Images                                              (9:00)         1991 

solo trombone, 

premiered by Audrey Morrison, International Trombone Festival  

The Quickening of a Summer's Morn         (12:00)         1990 

premiered  by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Jeff Renshaw conductor

British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, 1991 

International Society of Music Educators 20th New Band Music Symposium, 1992  

Dreams Abuse the Curtained Sleep               (14:00)         1990  

orchestra                               

Eastman School of Music Dissertation Piece  

Songs for the Earth                                (20:30)         1989         

fl, ob, cl, tpt, vln, vc, pno, perc. Winds play one crotale each  

I. Dancing Light  

II. The Wind Rushes About Their Feet  

III. And In The Sea

Eastman New Music, Jeff Renshaw, conductor  

Iridescent Dreams                                                (6:14)         1989         

solo harpsichord 

I. Fragile Slumber

 II. Awakenings  

Larry Phillips, recording, Boston   

Peregrinations                                                      (9:30)         1988 

Pam Helton, solo clarinet 

Eastman New Music

and birds are wings (e.e. cummings)                   (21:05)                  1988 

i. and birds are wings  

ii. timelessness  

iii. let’s touch the sky       

mezzo-sop, flute,  clarinet, violin, 'cello, pno/cel, percussion                  

Jane Manning and Jane’s Minstrels, Roger Montgomery, conductor 

BBC Radio3 Hear and Now, 

recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio3      

 Arrays of Light                                                 (12:19)         1988

I. Altair

II. Orion

III. Algol 

on Arrays of Light CD with Mark Ponzo, trumpet 

International Trumpet Guild Composition Contest, First Prize, 1989    

Tapestries (Schramm)                (12:45)  1987

fl, cl, ob, tpt, horn, tbn, vln, vc, pno, perc. 

Peggy Bishop, soprano, Eastman Chamber Music, Mark Scatterday, conductor   

Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Violoncello     (19:20)         1987              

Alicia Stegink, solo cello, 

Eastman Chamber Music  

Satan Speaks (C.S. Lewis)                                                       (5:08)          1985  

Eric Blomquist, tenor and Ed Laurel, piano, 

Eastman Chamber Music.  University of Texas Chamber Music    

Requiescat: In Memoriam Cheryl Williams(1960-1984)    (12:25)     1985 

premiered by University of Texas Orchestra, Patrick McCrelless, conductor