Stanley Grill
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Sheet music for Stanley Grill
Grill: and I paint stars with wings... — Stanley Grill
— CD — Classical
Composed by Stanley Grill. Classical. CD. Innova #INN047. Published by Innova (NX.INN047).
Price: $14.00
Grill: Rustling Flights of Wings — Nancy Allen Lundy
— — Classical
By Nancy Allen Lundy, Ralph Farris, and Stephen Gosling. By Stanley Grill. Classical. Innova #INN019. Published by Innova (NX.INN019).
Price: $14.00
Hungarian Fantasy — Joyce Grill
Piano — Sheet —
Composed by Joyce Grill. Piano Solo; Solo; Solo Small Ensembles. Signature Series. Sheet. 4 pages. Alfred Music #00-39001. Published by Alfred Music (AP.39001).
Price: $2.00
Preludes — Joyce Grill
Piano — Book —
Ten Original Pieces in the Romantic Style. Composed by Joyce Grill. Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Belwin Studio Series. Form: Prelude. Book. 24 pages. Belwin Music #00-EL9718. Published by Belwin Music (AP.EL9718).
Price: $6.00
Thanks, Anna Magdalena — Joyce Grill
Piano — Sheet —
Minuet Boogie. Composed by Joyce Grill. Piano Solo; Solo; Solo Small Ensembles. Belwin Banner Series. Sheet. 4 pages. Belwin Music #00-PA02465. Published by Belwin Music (AP.PA02465).
Price: $2.00
At the Center of All Things — Diderot String Quartet
— CD — Classical
By Diderot String Quartet. By Stanley Grill. Classical. CD. Innova #INN978. Published by Innova (NX.INN978).
Price: $14.00
Beau Soir (Beautiful Evening) — Stanley M. Hoffman
SATB choir and Piano — octavo — Romantic, Evening
Composed by Stanley M. Hoffman and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman. Romantic, Evening. Octavo. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #7689. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.7689).
Price: $2.00
Now The Green Blade Riseth — Stanley Saxton
alto voice solo & SATB choir, keyboard — octavo — Easter, 21st Century
Composed by Stanley Saxton. Arranged by Stanley Saxton. Easter, 21st Century. Octavo. Galaxy Music Corporation #1.1769. Published by Galaxy Music Corporation (EC.1.1769).
Price: $1.00
Drei Geistliche Lieder (Three Sacred Songs) — Stanley M. Hoffman
alto voice solo, SATB choir, organ — choral score — Easter, Romantic
Composed by Stanley M. Hoffman and Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman. Advanced/Collegiate. Year A Proper 8 (13). Easter, Romantic. Choral score. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #8146. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8146).
Price: $3.00
Vocalise — Stanley M. Hoffman
TTBB choir divisi (a cappella) — octavo — Secular, Romantic
Composed by Stanley M. Hoffman and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). Arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman. Secular, Romantic. Octavo. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #8049. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.8049).
Price: $1.00
VOCAL MUSIC
The Snow Begins (W.C. Williams) 1975 soprano, piano 3 min
Earth and Sea (Eskimo texts) 1975 soprano, piano 3 min
Prelude (T.S. Eliot) 1978 soprano, violin, cello 10 min
6 Songs (W.B. Yeats) 1983 soprano, piano 15 min
To a Child (W.B. Yeats) 1987 soprano, string quartet 20 min
Crazy Jane Sings (W.B. Yeats) 1999 soprano, fl, vn, va, vc, pn 25 min
Vignettes/Flowers (W.C. Williams 2002 SATB, cello 18 min
Love Poems (W.C. Williams) 2003 SSAA 10 min
Vignettes/Trees (W.C. Williams) 2004 sop, mezz sop, 2 cellos 15 min
Thinking of You (John MacKenzie) 2005 soprano, cello, harp 7 min
Ariettas Without Words 2005 soprano, cello, harp 9 min
Scetate (Ferdinando Russo) 2005 SSATTBB 6 min
In Their Flight (Mark Doty) 2006 sop, mezzo, violin, cello 6 min
5 Rilke Songs 2009 soprano, viola d’amore, cello 15 min
4 Songs to Poems by Hart Crane 2010 tenor, piano 35 min
Seasons (W.C. Williams) 2010 SATB 11 min
Sonnets to Orpheus (R.M. Rilke) 2012 tenor, piano 35 min
Songs of Loss and Remembering (R.M. Rilke) 2012 soprano, viola d’amore, viola, cello 12 min
Rozmowa z kamieniem (W. Szymborska) 2013 soprano, 2 violins, cello 15 min
2 Love Songs (H. Heine) 2015 countertenor, va, vc, theorbo 4 min
A Collection of Songs (C.F. Cilliers) 2017 soprano, piano 18 min
The Violin Sings in a Common Language 2017 soprano, violin 13 min
Collected Villanelles (various poets) 2018 SATB 16 min
La selva de los relojes (Federico Garcia Lorca) 2018 mezzo soprano, cello, piano 21 min
Der Februar (Erich Kastner) 2018 soprano, viola d’amore 4 min
Vier Gedichte (Inborg Hoflehner) 2018 mezzo soprano, viola d’amore 6 min
La Lay de Plour (Guillaume Machaut) 2018 contralto, fl, vn, vc, piano 40 min
Selections from Les Roses (R.M. Rilke) 2019 soprano, oboe, violin 9 min
Blossoms (Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger) 2019 soprano, viola d’amore, cello 22 min
This Hour (Rose Ausländer) 2019 soprano, tenor, vn, va, vc, harpsichord 11 min
The Aim was Song (Robert Frost) 2019 soprano, cello 3 min
Two Ballads (Richard Leach) 2019 soprano, Bb clarinet, viola, cello, piano 8 min
The Whirr of Wings (various poets) 2020 chorus, flute, viola, cello 24 min
Dust Song (Richard Leach) 2020 soprano, piano 3 min
Selections from Words for Music Perhaps (W.B. Yeats) 2020 mezzo soprano, baritone, piano 8 min
An Incalculable Loss (Richard Leach/Norman Fischer) 2020 soprano & cello 12 min
Say their names (words from the news) 2020 voice & piano 6 min
To Pain (Peter Levitt) 2020 baritone & piano 4 min
Artist (Madhu Raghavendra) 2020 soprano & piano 3 min
1918 (Ellen Bryant Voigt) 2020 mezzo soprano, vn, 2 va, vc 20 min
Les Fugitifs (R.M. Rilke) 2020 mezzo soprano, viola 5 min
Schnee und Eis (Rose Ausländer) 2020 soprano, viola 6 min
Moot! 2020 9 voices 3 min
4xM and Other Blues (Richard Leach) 2021 baritone & piano 11 min
2 Sonnets (William Shakespeare) 2021 soprano, flute, clarinet, viola 9 min
Several Simple Songs 2021 Soprano & piano 10 min
MUSIC FOR STRINGS ALONE
6 Contrapuntal Pieces 1986 string quartet 20 min
For Laura 1987 string quartet 25 min
The Beckoning Stars 2001 string quartet 13 min
Imaginary Dances 2001 violin solo 18 min
Short Stories 2003 vn, va, vc, db 18 min
Passion (a love duet) 2003 viola, cello 9 min
Pavanne (for a world without war) 2005 string orchestra 8 min
Meditations 2006 string orchestra 8 min
American Landscapes 2007 string quartet 24 min
Motet 2008 string orchestra 7 min
Ecstasy 2009 viola solo 9 min
Transformations 2009 viola da gamba 12 min
Sonatine 2010 3 violins 9 min
Lieder ohne Worte 2011 2 va, vc, theorbo 12 min
Middle Ground 2012 vn, 2 va, vc 25 min
O mystery! 2012 viola solo 5 min
Music for Viol Consort 2013 6 viols 20 min
Afterwards, there were no more wars 2013 string quartet 21 min
At the Center of All Things 2013 string quartet 17 min
4 Nocturnes 2013 violin, viola 19 min
Lonely Voices 2013 string quartet 26 min
Trance Music 2014 string orchestra 22 min
The Time is Past 2016 string quartet 15 min
Dreaming of a Better World 2016 string quartet 15 min
Trio Sonata 2017 vn, va d’amore, cello 10 min
Transfiguration 2017 viola quartet 14 min
Duets 2018 2 viola d’amore 7 min
Aphorisms I 2019 string quartet 15 min
Airs and Dances 2019 strings 6 min
Border Crossings 2019 2 violins 6 min
Sea and Sky 2019 2 violas 11 min
Ode to Theia 2020 string quartet 22 min
Trio Sonata – 2020 2020 viola, viola d’amore, cello 10 min
Drift 2021 string orchestra 12 min
CHAMBER MUSIC
Three for Three 1992 violin, cello, piano 16 min
Civil War Songs 1992 viola, piano 18 min
Take Five 1993 piano quintet 25 min
Serenade 1999 fl, vn, va, vc 11 min
Distant Music 2000 cl, vn/va, vc, pn 20 min
Driven by the Wind 2001 flute, cello, piano 25 min
Nonet (for New York) 2002 fl, ob, cl, hn, bn, string quartet 35 min
A Little Sweet 2003 flute, cello 10 min
On the Edge of Sleep & Dreaming 2003 horn, cello, harp 31 min
5 Pastoral Scenes 2004 ob, bn, vn, va, vc 30 min
I was dreaming of the sea… 2004 vn (or fl), vc, pn 7 min
Little Tales of Mirth & Woe 2004 vn (or fl), vc, pn 6 min
An Ode to the Possibility of Piece 2005 clarinet, violin, cello 15 min
Elements 2006 fl, ob, cl, hn, bn 11 min
Motet for Brass Instruments 2006 2 tp, hn, tb, tu 7 min
4 Caprices 2014 violin, piano 14 min
Melville’s Dream 2017 alto flute, viola, cello 12 min
Music for Loud Band 2018 2 cornettos & 2 tenor sackbuts 5 min
Fanfare 2018 4 sackbuts (or tenor trombones) 3 min
the children are crying 2018 saxophone quartet 6 min
the children are still crying 2018 saxophone quartet 6 min
Aphorisms II 2019 viola & piano 21 min
Divisions 2019 vn, vc, pn 13 min
Aphorisms IV 2019 cello & piano 19 min
Remember 2020 viola & piano 10 min
The Whirr of Wings (instrumental suite) 2020 flute, viola, cello 19 min
Dance 2020 flute 3 min
Echo 2020 flute, oboe, clarinet, violin 4 min
Freedom Song 2020 saxophone quartet 6 min
The Stars Circle Above, Indifferent to Our Foolishness 2020 flute quartet 7 min
Traumstücke 2020 viola d’amore, piano 11 min
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Morning Music 2001 clarinet, string orchestra 22 min
Two Sad Songs (W.B. Yeats) 2002 soprano, string orchestra 15 min
Invisible Ballet 2003 string orchestra & diverse instruments 33 min
Dark Matter (Pluto) 2005 orchestra 15 min
Ophelia Songs (Shakespeare) 2005 soprano, harp, string orchestra 12 min
Love’s Little Pleasures (various poets) 2008 soprano, string orchestra 15 min
The Four Elements 2009 viola, string orchestra 22 min
Mystical Songs (Fernando Rielo) 2009 soprano, viola, string orchestra 18 min
In Praise of Reason 2012 cello, 2 horns, string orchestra 13 min
Against War 2018 soprano, orchestra 23 min
Season of Rain 2018 orchestra 38 min
Summer 2018 orchestra 43 min
Declaration of Peace 2019 chamber orchestra 12 min
Everything Passes 2019 soprano & chamber orchestra 16 min
Gaia’s Lament 2019 violin, orchestra 21 min
Serenade 2019 oboe, string orchestra 13 min
The Silence of Winter 2020 3 flutes, string orchestra 13 min
The Bridge 2020 viola & orchestra 70 min
Fantasy 2020 piano, string orchestra 15 min
Die Erste Elegie (R.M. Rilke) 2020 soprano, orchestra 38 min
The Mystic Trumpeter 2021 trumpet, string orchestra 24 min
PIANO MUSIC
Simple Sketches 2015 piano 12 min
Skirmishes 2016 piano 4 hands 10 min
Preludes for Piano, 1-6 2016 piano 10 min
Preludes for Piano, 7-12 2017 piano 10 min
Aphorisms III 2019 piano 17 min
Raised in the Bronx, Stan has been obsessed with music since the age of six, when his mother took him to Carnegie Hall and he was astonished and awestruck by a performance of “La Mer.” While that obsession first took the form of playing piano at every possible moment (when not otherwise engaged in activities typical of a kid growing up in the Bronx of the 1950’s and ‘60s), it was Stan’s music theory studies at the Manhattan School of Music that converted that obsession to writing music – and to finding his own musical voice.
He learned the craft from extraordinary musicians: among others - Robert Helps, Leon Kushner, Ursula Mamlok and Joseph Prostakoff. Stan's passion for medieval and Renaissance music has greatly influenced his writing - a contemporary expression of ageless techniques based on melody, modal harmonies, and contrapuntal, extended, interweaving lines. Two main themes permeate many of his works - music composed in an attempt to translate something about the nature of the physical world, and music composed to inspire and promote world peace.
Stan’s music has been performed the world over – from Ecuador to Poland; Toulouse to Tokyo; Brooklyn to Vienna – by such artists as Camerata Philadelphia, Camerata Arkos, Englewinds, the Pandolfis Consort, the Bronx Arts Ensemble, One World Symphony, violists Brett Deubner and Ralph Farris, and violinist Jorge Avila. Major works include three symphonies, ten string quartets, a nonet, concerti for violin, viola and cello, and numerous song cycles for voice and various instruments.
Stan’s discography includes "remember" with violist Brett Deubner and pianist Thomas Steigerwald, “afterwards...” with the Camerata Philadelphia string quartet, “and I paint stars with wings” with Camerata Philadelphia, “Rustling Flights of Wings” with soprano Nancy Allen Lundy, pianist Stephen Gosling and violinist Ralph Farris and “At the Center of All Things” with music performed by the Diderot String Quartet.
“As I see it, as much as we strive to find reason and purpose in our having been born into this amazing, mysterious and awe-inspiring universe, that attempt is largely futile. It is however, the best part of our nature that obliges us to make the attempt, though the most we can hope for is to gain some small degree of understanding of the world around us, and, more importantly, of ourselves. To achieve this, we each approach the problem in our own way, uniquely shaped by our cultural background, innate talents and abilities, education and so on. For some, science may be the window through which they best perceive and interpret the world, for others, religion. For those to whom the world seems to express itself most clearly and beautifully through sound, music is the voice that speaks to us and through which we, in turn, best express ourselves. Now, I can write notes that will make pretty music because I’ve been trained to do so – but the best of my music has arrived, rather inexplicably, as part of a personal effort to understand the world and myself. It is, in a way, an act of translation. The world says something, I try to understand it, and then translate it into musical language. The particular musical language which I speak, is, of course, a product of my conservatory training and personal musical tastes, but hopefully, the outcome, imperfect a translation as it may be, will convey to others something of its original intent.”
Stan's music is melodic, modal, contrapuntal, characterized by extended, interweaving lines. His musical influences span the centuries, and include Machaut, Josquin, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Lassus, Britten, Ives, Vaughn Williams and Shostakovich.
Complete scores are available at www.stangrillcomposer.com. Stan Grill is a member of ASCAP.