Publishers:
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Fred Bock Music Companies
National Music Publishers
Hal Leonard distribution
Betsy Schramm Music www.BetsySchramm.net
Betsy Schramm Catalog
Escapades (6:00) 2022
Fanfare for the Dance: The Sun Also Rises (2:57) 2022
full orchestra
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
for the Eastman Wind Ensemble
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
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