Recordings
Band Lullaby for Kirsten by Leslie Bassett http://lesliebassett.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SymphonyBand-LullabyKirsten.mp3 Sounds Shapes and Symbols – 1st Movement by Leslie Bassett...
Recordings
* The following three works are all on one CD: MMC 2090 Thoughts that Sing, Breathe and Burn, Moravian Philharmonic, Vit Micka, cond., MMC 2090, MMC Recordings, www.mmcmusic.com Concerto Lirico, H. Dennis Smith, tbn. solo, Seattle Sym. Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz,...
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Configurations, Richard Reber, piano, on Kanzona CKU 395, cassette available from School of Music, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS...
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Note: Out of print or very difficult to find Trio for Viola Clarinet and Piano, Walter Trampler, Charles Russo, Douglas Nordli, Composers Recordings, CRI 148 Designs, Images, and Textures, Univ. of Michigan Band, Wm. D. Revelli, cond., Educational Record Reference...
Recordings
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, video of the Verdehr Trio in series “The Making of a Medium,” 28 minute interview with Leslie Bassett, complete Trio performance, WKAR, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824; available for public broadcast from...
Musical Compositions
Daniel Speer: Sonata and Gigue, (2 vls, tbn, continuo), ed. by Glenn Smith, continuo by Leslie Bassett, 7′, 1979 (©1979), Musica Rara. Giovanni Battista Riccio: Three Canzonas (vln. or tpt., tbn, continuo), ed. by Glenn Smith, continuo by Leslie Bassett,...
Musical Compositions
Equale (four trombones), three brief homages to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, 7’, 1996 (©1996), Peters #67860, Chris Churchman, Glenn Neely, Mark Sossoman, Graham Wright, (Mark Britt, cond.), Furman University,Greenville, SC, Feb. 15, 1998. Song and Dance, (tuba,...
Musical Compositions
Sound Off!, (10 percussionists), 3’, (©2007), Peters #68211, premiered by Pro Musica, Gainesville, GA Three Graces, (3 flutes), c. 9 mins., 2000, Peters #67649, Deborah Ash, Penny Fischer, Susan Whitener, Barton Hills Country Club, Ann Arbor, MI, May 20, 2000, comm....
Musical Compositions
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken, and Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, (Unison, with organ or piano), each to the tune Jefferson from “Southern Harmony” (1835), texts by J. Newton, Ch. Wesley, Fortunatus, with organ or piano, 3’, 2003, (©2007), Peters #68213 Come,...
Musical Compositions
Collect (SATB chorus with 2-channel electronic tape), 5′, 1969 (©1970), World Library Publications, Upsala College Choir, Richard Toensing, cond., East Orange, NJ, March 23, 1969, comm. by Upsala College. Triform, 6′, 1966, Ann Arbor, MI, Dec. 3, 1966,...
Musical Compositions
Song of the Aulos, solo oboe, c 3 mins., 2000, Peters #67592 , Susan Bissiri, May 20, 2000, Barton Hills Country Club, comm. by Mu Phi Epsilon Metamorphoses, 8 pieces for solo bassoon, 15′, 1990 (©1992), Peters #67373, Wendy Rose, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor,...
Musical Compositions
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (alto sax, 2222,4221, timp. 3 perc., hp, pno-celesta, strings), 17’, 1999, ©2000, Peters #67970, comm. by Institute for American Music (Eastman School of Music), Clifford Leaman, saxophone, with Orchestre Symphonique de Laval,...
Mr. Bassett received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Variations for Orchestra, premiered in Rome in 1963 by the RAI Symphony Orchestra under Feruccio Scaglia, followed two years later by the Philadelphia Orchestra’s US premiere under Eugene Ormandy.