Charles Ives' A Concord Symphony and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

Pat has received permission from G. Schirmer to write a wind transcription of Charles Ives' monumenatal Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-1860.  Consider by many (including Pat) to be the single greatest piece of American music, Pat's transcription, which in effect will transform the work into a Concord Symphony for band, will be premiered in Austin, Texas in October 2010 by The University of Texas Wind Ensemble conducted by Jerry Junkin. 

Pat is also working on his own transcription of Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky's magnificent piano work virtually cries out for a larger canvas. Maurice Ravel, Leopold Stokowski, Sergei Gortchakov, Leo Funtek, Lawrence Leonard, and Vladimer Ashkenazy have all scored the work for orchestra, and there have been other arrangements for brass ensemble, pipe organ, as well as several for wind band. Commisioned by The University of Houston Symphonic Winds, David Bertman, conductor, Pat's transcription will be an original setting of the original piano work and will not be based any previous orchestral or wind band arrangement.