
Elie Siegmeister (b. January 15, 1909, New York City – March 10, 1991, Manhasset, New York) was an American composer, educator and author. His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary. Jazz, blues and folk melodies and rhythms are frequent themes in his many song cycles, his nine operas, his eight symphonies, and his many choral, chamber, and solo works. His 37 orchestral works have
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II Sunday Driver
I Prospect Park
III Thoreau
Big Rock Candy Mountain (From "Sing Out, Sweet Land")
III Ariel
I Very Slow, singing - Faster, joyous
III Family at Home
V Faulkner
Theme and Variations No. 2
Theme and Variations No. 1
I Allegro moderato
II Moderately slow, with great dignity
IV Summer
V Coney Island
II Mark Twain
Sunday in Brooklyn (arr. for piano): III Family at Home
II Slow, dreamy
Western Suite: II. Round-up
Moderato-Allegro-Piu mosso-Allegro, molto ritmico-Allegro-Poco meno mosso-Meno mosso di Tempo I-Allegro meno mosso-Adagio-Tempo
III Adagio - Allegro con fuoco
IV Children's Story
III Fast, driving
II Where?
Sunday in Brooklyn (arr. for piano): I Prospect Park
American Sonata: I Fast, with fiery energy
II Adagio, liberamente
Sunday in Brooklyn (arr. for piano): II Sunday Driver
Sunday in Brooklyn: III Family at Home
Rhythm: Beat
Western Suite: I. Prairie Morning
I Fast, with fiery energy
III Allegro - Vivace
III Lusty and joyous
On this Ground: V Mr. Henry's (Monday Night)
Western Suite: III. Night-herding
Introduction: Melody, Scales
I Whitman
Counterpoint: Invention, Fugue, Cool Jazz
Sunday in Brooklyn (arr. for piano): V Coney Island
Sunday in Brooklyn (arr. for piano): IV Children's Story
Prelude, Blues and Finale for Two Clarinets and Piano: i. Prelude
I Dream Freely
V Mr. Henry's (Monday Night)
II Andante con moto
IV Langston Hughes
The Strange Funeral In Braddock
I Allegretto, molto energico
Piano Sonata No. 1, "American Sonata": I. Fast, with Firey Energy
American Sonata: II Moderately slow, with great dignity
Prelude, Blues and Finale for Two Clarinets and Piano: ii. Blues
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