
For several summers I was a counselor for the National High School Music Institute. The summer of 1993 I was asked to be the counselor assigned to the composition division and Don Owens suggested that I write a piece for...


From Buxtehude’s Keyboard Suite I.



I. Preludio II. Allemanda III. Corrente IV. Gavotta V. Adagio VI. Minuetto

For the 2000-2001 McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band, Skokie, Illinois Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) is primarily known as the organ virtuoso that J. S. Bach once walked more than 200 miles to hear perform. Bach admired Buxtehude and was heavily influenced...