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George Boziwick has had works performed by organizations and ensembles, which include The National Association of Composers, the Newport Music Festival, and the Dorian Wind Quintet. He has received grants form Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the American Music Center. In 2005 he was the composer in-residence for the Goliard Ensemble's Southeastern Music Festival. His composition Magnificat has been published by C.F. Peters, and his music has been recorded on the Opus One label.
The Journal of the Music Library Association, American Music, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues. He is also a blues harmonica player and has performed with a variety of groups
and individuals including Bob Gaddy, Larry Dale, and Roscoe Gordon. |
George Boziwick also holds a Master of Library Service
degree
from
Columbia
University and is Chief of the Music Division of The New York Public
Library
for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. He has contributed articles
to NOTES
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Hymn and Fuguing Tune for flute and piano |
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Hymn and Fuguing Tune for trombone or bassoon and piano |
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Summer Wind for flute and piano |
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The Calling for solo oboe (3 minutes) |
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Out of the Blues for bassoon quartet (5 minutes) |
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Third Dance for woodwind quintet (10 minutes) |
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Woodwind Quintet (12 minutes) |
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Super Collider for solo flute (4 minutes) |
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Brass Vignettes  RealAudio 161KB
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for brass quintet Performers on the audio clip: The Modern Brass Quintet |
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Second Dance for brass quintet (with bass trombone or tuba) (13 minutes) |
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Éclat pour Notre Dame for brass quintet (with bass trombone) (8 minutes) |
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Lament for solo horn (3 minutes) |
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The Calling for solo trumpet (3 minutes) |
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Summer Fanfare for two trumpets, horn, tenor trombone (3 minutes) |
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Chamber music: mixed | |
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Goliard Suite
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First Dance RealAudio 93KB for piano and marimba (9 minutes) Recorded on Opus One CD#162 The Sonorous Landscape Performers on the audio clip: Loretta Goldberg, piano, Kory Grossman, marimba |
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Suspensions in Autumn for violin and piano (7 minutes) |
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Red Skies at Night for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart and oboe (7 minutes) Recorded on Opus One CD#135 Tone Over Tone |
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Fabliau of Florida for oboe (or clarinet), violin, viola, 'cello and piano (10 minutes) |
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Quartet for Oboe and String Trio (10 minutes) |
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Orchestral music | |
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Points of Departure for chamber orchestra (15 minutes) 1-1-1-1, 2-2-1, marimba/percussion(1), strings |
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Etude for large orchestra 2/picc-2/eh-2-2, 4-2-1-1, vibraphone/percussion(2), harp, strings |
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Solo keyboard music | |
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Boats against the Current for piano (6 minutes) Recorded on Opus One CD#162 The Sonorous Landscape |
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Perpetual Chant for organ (6 minutes) |
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Crossover music | |
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Out of the Blues for toy piano (6 minutes) Also available for woodwind quintet or bassoon quartet |
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Emily Dickinson Then and Now vocal quartet and chamber orchestra This work pairs a traditional hymn and fuguing tune with a soft swinging rhythm and blues setting of two elegant thought provoking Dickinson poems. The second setting incorporates a beautiful harmonica solo which can be provided by the composer, making this lush work a unique crowd pleasing experience. |
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Beyond the Last Thought RealAudio 161KB
Score sample (in pdf format)
for soprano, oboe, bassoon and marimba (13 minutes) on texts of Isabella Gardner, Wallace Stevens, and Emily Dickinson Recorded on Opus One CD#162 The Sonorous Landscape Performers on the audio clip: Carmen Pelton, soprano, Gerard Reuter, oboe, Cyndee Iverson, bassoon, Kory Grossman, marimba |
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When Time is Over RealAudio 118KB
Score sample (in pdf format) Five Poems of Emily Dickinson for high or medium voice and piano (12 minutes) Performers on the audio clip: Patricia Magnuson, soprano, Joan Harkness, piano |
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Choral music | |
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Sacred Harp a hymn and fuguing tune in the shape-note style for unaccompanied Voices (SATB) on a poem by Emily Dickinson |
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Earth is Short Poems of Emily Dickinson for unaccompanied voices SATB (15 minutes) |
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Perpetual Surfaces for unaccompanied voices SATB on three texts by Wallace Stevens (10 minutes) |
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Sacred music | |
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Advent Calendar for unaccompanied voices (SATB) on a poem by Rowan Williams |
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Sacred Harp a Hymn and Fuguing Tune for choir, organ and congregation |
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Anima Christi from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola for unaccompanied voices SATB (5 minutes) |
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The Lamb for unaccompanied SATB, text by William Blake, a setting Appropriate for Christmas or other sacred occasions. Price: $10 per score $8 for five or more. |
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Panis Angelicus for eight part choir acapella |
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Magnificat (Canticle of Mary) responsorial setting for choir, organ and congregation (available from C. F. Peters Corp.) |
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Mass for choir and organ with congregational responses |
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Mass of Celebration for choir, organ, brass (optional guitar, bass, drums) and congregational responses |
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Three Sacred Meditations for unaccompanied voices SATB |
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Last update: June 30, 2007