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Julie Mandel is a composer of both chamber music and musical theater. She is a member of the Long Island Composers Alliance, the American Composers Forum and ASCAP. Manel majored in Music at UCLA. She studied 12-tone composition with Ernst Krenek and was in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Her theater works include "Subway Suite," "2” a Revue, "Le Grand Café," "A Glorious Day," and "I Wish, I Wish, I Wish"- a one-act opera, and "The Pious Cat”- a short story set to music.
"A Glorious Day" has been produced by the York Theater in New York City, and by The Blue Grass Opera Company in Lexington, KY. "The Pious Cat” was presented at Opera America. The Stony Brook String Quartet premiered her “String Quartet #6.”
Her “Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp” and her “String Quartet #3” have been published by Theodore Presser.

WISTFUL MEMORIES

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

THREE SONGS

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano

Description: Three songs for Soprano voice with flute, cello and piano. The text for these songs are poems by Doreen Spungin.

Piano Trio 2

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin

Description: Mvt 1: Allegretto Grazioso
Mvt 2: Andante Tranquillo
Mvt 3: Allegro

Divertimento

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Description: A one movement piece for 2 clarinets and piano.

HISTORY SAYS

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Description: This SATB a cappella work has as it's text a quote from Seamus Heaney's play "The Cure At Troy"

String Quartet No. 6

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Three Movements: Adagio, Andante, Allegro. Audio features Mvt. 3.

SOLITUDE IN THE CITY

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;11'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, contrabass, piano

Description: Is also available for Cello and Piano; or for flute and cello; or as cello solo

THREE ODDEST WORDS

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: For SATB a cappella. Text by Wislawa Szymborska winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

SONATINA

Year: 2007

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: This is a twelve-tone work. Has also been played on Harpsichord.

BLUES FOR PAUL

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Description: A jazz flavored piece for flute and piano.

YIN AND YANG QUARTET

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Mvt 1: Variations on a Mantra 7'23"
Mvt 2: After The Storm 5'47"

MOODS

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;45'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string trio

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Mvt. 1: Contentment 3'20"
Mvt. 2: Longing 5'
Mvt. 3 Joy 6'25"

WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;20'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Blanche Abram. Audio features soprano, Karen Lehman.

FULL MANY YOUNG LIPS

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;16'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Blanche Abram. Audio features soprano, Karen Lehman.

BREAKFAST ALONE

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: The text is a poem by Ann Sillsbee. Audio features soprano, Marcelle Duarte.

I WISH, I WISH, I WISH

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 20'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: A one-act opera with a cast of four: Sop., Alt., Ten., Bass. A kind of Japanese Fairytale set in modern times. Libretto: Eugene Mandel.

And the Livin' is Easy - A Piano Suite of Three Pieces

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;15'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Three movements:
1. The Fourths of July 1'40"
2. Lazy Summer Day 3'30"
3. Moon on Lake Kinderhook 4'40"

Seasonings - Two pieces for String Orchestra

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Wedding Trio - A Piano Trio in Four Movements

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin

Portraits

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, guitar, piano, soprano

Description: Five Songs for Sop. Piano, Flute (One for guitar) Poems by Ilsa Gilbert

Quiet Winter Morning - For Wind Quartet

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, flute, horn, oboe

Flute of Morning

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: bassoon, flute, piano, soprano, violin

Description: Poem by Blanche Abram.

Pious Cat

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, flute, narrator/speaker

Description: Weaving together a lyrical vocal score, a traditional Yiddish folk song, and narration into a beautiful setting for soprano, narrator, clarinet and piano. This thought-provoking work by Yiddish author I.L. Peretz is a parable of how devotion and piety are often used to excuse and rationalize even the most heinous acts.
Audio features Darcy Dunn, soprano; Daniel Dorrance, clarinet; Barbara Ames, piano;
Mark Singer, narration.

Confections - Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Description: Whipped Cream, one of three pieces that comprise the Confections suite. Audio features Naomi Drucker, clarinet, and Blanche Abram, piano.

Spring Trio

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;35'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string trio

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Proteus String Quartet

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: 3 movements

Lake Kinderhook

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;10'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

String Quartet No. 3

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;36'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Theodore Presser

Description: Premiered in Chicago in 1996.
4 movements: (Mvt. 1: 4'23"), (Mvt. 2: 4'26"), (Mvt. 3: 2'48"), (Mvt. 4: 4'59").
Audio is the 2nd Movement - Andantino, performed by the Meridian String Quartet.

Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;38'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, harp, viola

Publisher: Theodore Presser

Description: Premiered at Queens College in April, 1996 by Sue Ann Kahn, Christine Ims, and Susan Jolles.
Three Movements (Mvt. 1: 5'01"), (Mvt. 2: 4'11"), (Mvt. 3: 4'26")

Invention for Flute and Piano

Year: 1994

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Description: 3 movements.

Evening Prayer

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;55'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: cello, piano, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

2" a Revue

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 30'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: piano, soprano, tenor voice

Description: A musical revue for two people in which all the songs relate to the concept of “two” and explores all the many and varied combinations. (Can also be done using several “couples”) Has been performed in many regional theaters. First performed at Lincoln Center Library Theatre. Recorded with original cast on “Take Home Tunes” label. Song List: 1.) Two's A Nice Number, 2.) Two Pieces Of Bread, 3.) Love Is A Two-Part Invention, 4.) Dear Mr. Green, 5.) Baby Makes Two, 6.) Two Note Rag, 7.) Two Points Of View, 8.) Now We Are Three, 9.) Two To Tango, 10.) Show Biz, 11.) Two Things, 12.) We Need Each Other, 13.) Two Cities, 14.) I'm Two, 15.) Twice On Matinee Days, 16.) When We're Together/One/2 Is What It's All About, 17.) Two's A Nice Number (Reprise)

Pari and the Prince

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Description: A musical for children based on a story from "The Daring Young Man on a Flying Trapeze" by William Saroyan in which a Prince falls in love with, and learns a great deal from, a young peasant girl. Performed in summer stock and in schools around the country.

Danny Dunn, Time Traveller

Duration (in minutes): 1hr

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: musical theater, young audiences

Description: Based on the book by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
What happens when Danny and his friends use a time machine that takes them back to Benjamin Franklin’s time, and they meet him.

Memories - for violin and piano

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Recipes for Love

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: flute

Description: Poems by Sharon Harris
Three songs:
1. Instant Love 1'47"
2. Spendthrift 2'57"
3. Falling in Love 1'37"

Once in a Lifetime

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, musical theater

Description: Based on Kaufman and Hart’s play of the same name.
A satire about the days when the silent screen became “The Talkies!” and killed vaudeville, prompting vaudevillians to seek their fortune in Hollywood. Produced at Carnegie Recital Hall, and in summer stock.

Holiday

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;20'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Two Songs by Chinese Poets

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;19'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, flute, piano, tenor voice, violin

Description: 1. The Last Day of the Year 3'46"
Poem by Su Tung Po
2. Sitting Outdoors 4'33"
Poem by Lu Yu

String Quartet No. 5

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;10'34;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Two Movements.

Divertimento - for two flutes

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;40'34;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Mary Lincoln Song

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Based on Mary Lincoln's quotes.

Mabdel and Her Cottage

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, narrator/speaker, viola, violin

Description: String Quartet and Narrator

Anticipation

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;07

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Private Place

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;14'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Lois Wyse

Story About the Ant Eater

Duration (in minutes): 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, contrabass, flute, violin

Description: One-act Opera based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. The story of marriage, and how one woman learns to accept her husband’s faults by realizing her own.

Spring is Here

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble

Intervals - a set of 24 Piano solos

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Description: A collection of 24 Pieces. I have written these twenty-four pieces with the idea of having the first two notes of each of them start with a different interval.
(for example: #1 A Half Step Up; #2 A Half Step Down, #3 One Tone Up; #4 One Tone Down, etc.) Writing them has been like a series of adventures, each of which begins by taking the first two steps – and then discovering where they will lead.

See

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, piano, soprano

Description: Poem by Lois Wys

Quiet Winter Morning - for String Orchestra

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble

Daybreak in Alabama

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: satb chorus

Description: Poem by Langston Hughes.

For Aglia

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Two movements:
1. Sunset 3'
2. Floating Clouds 3'

Portrait of Childhood

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;14'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Aglia Ho

Central Park

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, piano, viola

Description: Three Movements:
1. Man Walking Dog 1'46"
2. Young Lovers 4'31"
3. Joggers 3'13"

May I Have Your Coat

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;25'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Poem by Doreen Spungin

Sonatina – for Violin and Piano

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Description: A three-movement work. Mainly tonal, with rich harmonies.

I Shall Never Forget (My Dog Bruno)

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;46'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Agilia Ho

Conversations - Suite of Three Pieces

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble

Description: Three Movements:
1. Repeat That Please 1'30"
2. Sweet Talk 3'
3. The Argument 3'

Tomorrow Came

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;51'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Poem by Doreen Spungin

Flight of Fancy

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

That Thing Called Love

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;35'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Based on a quote by Karen Horney.

Flute and Piano Sonatina

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;23'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Description: Three Movements: Mvt. 1: 5'17", Mvt. 2: 4'06", Mvt. 3: 2'

Late Night Thoughts

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;53'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Poem by Doreen Spungin

Subway Suite

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any male voice, any string, baritone voice, cello, viola, violin

Description: Piano and varied voices (16 songs, solos, duets, quartets. Also available with string quartet accompaniment). The NY Subways from rush hour in the am to rush hour in the pm. During which time we meet many different travelers). Premiered in at Queens College with the Meridian String Quartet. Audio features the song, Ladies and Gentleman.

Unending Love

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Rabindranath Tagore

Flute Quartet

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;41'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: flute quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Love is a Two-Part Invention

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Text by the composer. Song from "2" a Revue. Audio features Ann Hoddap, soprano and Hal Waters, tenor.

Glorious Day

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Description: A musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Getting Married.”
The wedding day (we hope!) of the last of the Bishop’s four daughters.
Edith, a fiery woman’s libber. A real ensemble piece with each of the characters fully developed and singing! Has been produced by the York Theatre in NY, and the Blue Grass Opera Company in Lexington, KY.

Dinkey Bird

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano, violin

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

Duration (in minutes): 1hr

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: musical theater, young audiences

Description: Based on the book by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
What happens when Danny and his friends use a computer to do homework.

String Quartet No. 4

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;39'34;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Three Movements.

Star Clusters

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet

Four Lullabies for Soprano and Piano

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;53'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: 1. Sleep Baby Sleep 3' (Sung by Monet's wife to their baby)
2. Lullaby 4'26" (Sung by a Mammy to the white child she takes care of)
3. Strange Nursery 3' (Sung by a mother to her child while they are held as prisoners by the Japanese in World War II)
4. Jazz Lullaby 3'26" (Sung by a modern mother to her newborn)

Le Grand Cafe

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, musical theater

Description: About the struggles of the Impressionists: Monet, Renoir, Degas; and the resulting difficulties of Monet and his wife, Camille.

Intervals - for piano

Composer: Julie Mandel

Description: Three of 24 “Intervals” for piano played by Italian pianist, Paolo Bartolani.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIGRUqmi7b4

String Quartet #6

Composer: Julie Mandel

Description: The Allegro Movement of String Quartet #6 by Julie Mandel is played at North Shore Public Library on Nov. 7th, 2008 by The Stony Brook String Quintet.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNZfrwzg5eg

Love is a Two-Part Invention

Composer: Julie Mandel

Description: Performed by The Phoenix Quartet's David Root, David H. Orcutt and pianist Richard Pearson Thomas.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIHTfJcCtrA

BIOGRAPHY
Julie Mandel is a composer of both chamber music and musical theater. She is a member of the Long Island Composers Alliance, the American Composers Forum and ASCAP. Manel majored in Music at UCLA. She studied 12-tone composition with Ernst Krenek and was in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Her theater works include "Subway Suite," "2” a Revue, "Le Grand Café," "A Glorious Day," and "I Wish, I Wish, I Wish"- a one-act opera, and "The Pious Cat”- a short story set to music.
"A Glorious Day" has been produced by the York Theater in New York City, and by The Blue Grass Opera Company in Lexington, KY. "The Pious Cat” was presented at Opera America. The Stony Brook String Quartet premiered her “String Quartet #6.”
Her “Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp” and her “String Quartet #3” have been published by Theodore Presser.
COMPOSITIONS

WISTFUL MEMORIES

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

THREE SONGS

Year: 2012

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano

Description: Three songs for Soprano voice with flute, cello and piano. The text for these songs are poems by Doreen Spungin.

Piano Trio 2

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 17'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin

Description: Mvt 1: Allegretto Grazioso
Mvt 2: Andante Tranquillo
Mvt 3: Allegro

Divertimento

Year: 2010

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Description: A one movement piece for 2 clarinets and piano.

HISTORY SAYS

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Description: This SATB a cappella work has as it's text a quote from Seamus Heaney's play "The Cure At Troy"

String Quartet No. 6

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 15'39;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Three Movements: Adagio, Andante, Allegro. Audio features Mvt. 3.

SOLITUDE IN THE CITY

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;11'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, contrabass, piano

Description: Is also available for Cello and Piano; or for flute and cello; or as cello solo

THREE ODDEST WORDS

Year: 2008

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral

Description: For SATB a cappella. Text by Wislawa Szymborska winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

SONATINA

Year: 2007

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: This is a twelve-tone work. Has also been played on Harpsichord.

BLUES FOR PAUL

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Description: A jazz flavored piece for flute and piano.

YIN AND YANG QUARTET

Year: 2006

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Mvt 1: Variations on a Mantra 7'23"
Mvt 2: After The Storm 5'47"

MOODS

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 14'39;45'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string trio

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Mvt. 1: Contentment 3'20"
Mvt. 2: Longing 5'
Mvt. 3 Joy 6'25"

WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;20'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Blanche Abram. Audio features soprano, Karen Lehman.

FULL MANY YOUNG LIPS

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;16'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Blanche Abram. Audio features soprano, Karen Lehman.

BREAKFAST ALONE

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: The text is a poem by Ann Sillsbee. Audio features soprano, Marcelle Duarte.

I WISH, I WISH, I WISH

Year: 2005

Duration (in minutes): 20'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: opera, orchestra and chamber orchestra

Description: A one-act opera with a cast of four: Sop., Alt., Ten., Bass. A kind of Japanese Fairytale set in modern times. Libretto: Eugene Mandel.

And the Livin' is Easy - A Piano Suite of Three Pieces

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;15'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Three movements:
1. The Fourths of July 1'40"
2. Lazy Summer Day 3'30"
3. Moon on Lake Kinderhook 4'40"

Seasonings - Two pieces for String Orchestra

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra

Wedding Trio - A Piano Trio in Four Movements

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, cello, piano, violin

Portraits

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, flute, guitar, piano, soprano

Description: Five Songs for Sop. Piano, Flute (One for guitar) Poems by Ilsa Gilbert

Quiet Winter Morning - For Wind Quartet

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any brass, any woodwind, flute, horn, oboe

Flute of Morning

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: bassoon, flute, piano, soprano, violin

Description: Poem by Blanche Abram.

Pious Cat

Year: 2003

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, flute, narrator/speaker

Description: Weaving together a lyrical vocal score, a traditional Yiddish folk song, and narration into a beautiful setting for soprano, narrator, clarinet and piano. This thought-provoking work by Yiddish author I.L. Peretz is a parable of how devotion and piety are often used to excuse and rationalize even the most heinous acts.
Audio features Darcy Dunn, soprano; Daniel Dorrance, clarinet; Barbara Ames, piano;
Mark Singer, narration.

Confections - Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano

Year: 2003

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, clarinet, piano

Description: Whipped Cream, one of three pieces that comprise the Confections suite. Audio features Naomi Drucker, clarinet, and Blanche Abram, piano.

Spring Trio

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 18'39;35'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string trio

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Proteus String Quartet

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;30'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: 3 movements

Lake Kinderhook

Year: 1998

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;10'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

String Quartet No. 3

Year: 1996

Duration (in minutes): 16'39;36'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Publisher: Theodore Presser

Description: Premiered in Chicago in 1996.
4 movements: (Mvt. 1: 4'23"), (Mvt. 2: 4'26"), (Mvt. 3: 2'48"), (Mvt. 4: 4'59").
Audio is the 2nd Movement - Andantino, performed by the Meridian String Quartet.

Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp

Year: 1994

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;38'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, flute, harp, viola

Publisher: Theodore Presser

Description: Premiered at Queens College in April, 1996 by Sue Ann Kahn, Christine Ims, and Susan Jolles.
Three Movements (Mvt. 1: 5'01"), (Mvt. 2: 4'11"), (Mvt. 3: 4'26")

Invention for Flute and Piano

Year: 1994

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Description: 3 movements.

Evening Prayer

Year: 1980

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;55'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: cello, piano, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin

2" a Revue

Year: 1979

Duration (in minutes): 30'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Instruments: piano, soprano, tenor voice

Description: A musical revue for two people in which all the songs relate to the concept of “two” and explores all the many and varied combinations. (Can also be done using several “couples”) Has been performed in many regional theaters. First performed at Lincoln Center Library Theatre. Recorded with original cast on “Take Home Tunes” label. Song List: 1.) Two's A Nice Number, 2.) Two Pieces Of Bread, 3.) Love Is A Two-Part Invention, 4.) Dear Mr. Green, 5.) Baby Makes Two, 6.) Two Note Rag, 7.) Two Points Of View, 8.) Now We Are Three, 9.) Two To Tango, 10.) Show Biz, 11.) Two Things, 12.) We Need Each Other, 13.) Two Cities, 14.) I'm Two, 15.) Twice On Matinee Days, 16.) When We're Together/One/2 Is What It's All About, 17.) Two's A Nice Number (Reprise)

Pari and the Prince

Year: 1968

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Description: A musical for children based on a story from "The Daring Young Man on a Flying Trapeze" by William Saroyan in which a Prince falls in love with, and learns a great deal from, a young peasant girl. Performed in summer stock and in schools around the country.

Danny Dunn, Time Traveller

Duration (in minutes): 1hr

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: musical theater, young audiences

Description: Based on the book by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
What happens when Danny and his friends use a time machine that takes them back to Benjamin Franklin’s time, and they meet him.

Memories - for violin and piano

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Recipes for Love

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: flute

Description: Poems by Sharon Harris
Three songs:
1. Instant Love 1'47"
2. Spendthrift 2'57"
3. Falling in Love 1'37"

Once in a Lifetime

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, musical theater

Description: Based on Kaufman and Hart’s play of the same name.
A satire about the days when the silent screen became “The Talkies!” and killed vaudeville, prompting vaudevillians to seek their fortune in Hollywood. Produced at Carnegie Recital Hall, and in summer stock.

Holiday

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;20'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Two Songs by Chinese Poets

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;19'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with solo instruments

Instruments: any high voice, any male voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, baritone voice, flute, piano, tenor voice, violin

Description: 1. The Last Day of the Year 3'46"
Poem by Su Tung Po
2. Sitting Outdoors 4'33"
Poem by Lu Yu

String Quartet No. 5

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;10'34;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Two Movements.

Divertimento - for two flutes

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;40'34;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, flute

Mary Lincoln Song

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Based on Mary Lincoln's quotes.

Mabdel and Her Cottage

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, narrator/speaker, viola, violin

Description: String Quartet and Narrator

Anticipation

Duration (in minutes): 1'39;07

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, cello, piano

Private Place

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;14'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Lois Wyse

Story About the Ant Eater

Duration (in minutes): 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, contrabass, flute, violin

Description: One-act Opera based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. The story of marriage, and how one woman learns to accept her husband’s faults by realizing her own.

Spring is Here

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble

Intervals - a set of 24 Piano solos

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: piano

Description: A collection of 24 Pieces. I have written these twenty-four pieces with the idea of having the first two notes of each of them start with a different interval.
(for example: #1 A Half Step Up; #2 A Half Step Down, #3 One Tone Up; #4 One Tone Down, etc.) Writing them has been like a series of adventures, each of which begins by taking the first two steps – and then discovering where they will lead.

See

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any voice, piano, soprano

Description: Poem by Lois Wys

Quiet Winter Morning - for String Orchestra

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble

Daybreak in Alabama

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: satb chorus

Description: Poem by Langston Hughes.

For Aglia

Duration (in minutes): 6'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: piano

Description: Two movements:
1. Sunset 3'
2. Floating Clouds 3'

Portrait of Childhood

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;14'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Aglia Ho

Central Park

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, clarinet, flute, piano, viola

Description: Three Movements:
1. Man Walking Dog 1'46"
2. Young Lovers 4'31"
3. Joggers 3'13"

May I Have Your Coat

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;25'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Poem by Doreen Spungin

Sonatina – for Violin and Piano

Duration (in minutes): 9'39;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo string with piano

Instruments: any string, piano, violin

Description: A three-movement work. Mainly tonal, with rich harmonies.

I Shall Never Forget (My Dog Bruno)

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;46'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Agilia Ho

Conversations - Suite of Three Pieces

Duration (in minutes): 10'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble

Description: Three Movements:
1. Repeat That Please 1'30"
2. Sweet Talk 3'
3. The Argument 3'

Tomorrow Came

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;51'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Poem by Doreen Spungin

Flight of Fancy

Duration (in minutes): 8'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo woodwind with piano

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

That Thing Called Love

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;35'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Based on a quote by Karen Horney.

Flute and Piano Sonatina

Duration (in minutes): 11'39;23'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any woodwind, flute, piano

Description: Three Movements: Mvt. 1: 5'17", Mvt. 2: 4'06", Mvt. 3: 2'

Late Night Thoughts

Duration (in minutes): 4'39;53'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: flute

Description: Poem by Doreen Spungin

Subway Suite

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: any male voice, any string, baritone voice, cello, viola, violin

Description: Piano and varied voices (16 songs, solos, duets, quartets. Also available with string quartet accompaniment). The NY Subways from rush hour in the am to rush hour in the pm. During which time we meet many different travelers). Premiered in at Queens College with the Meridian String Quartet. Audio features the song, Ladies and Gentleman.

Unending Love

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Poem by Rabindranath Tagore

Flute Quartet

Duration (in minutes): 2'39;41'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: flute quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Love is a Two-Part Invention

Duration (in minutes): 3'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: Text by the composer. Song from "2" a Revue. Audio features Ann Hoddap, soprano and Hal Waters, tenor.

Glorious Day

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: musical theater

Description: A musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Getting Married.”
The wedding day (we hope!) of the last of the Bishop’s four daughters.
Edith, a fiery woman’s libber. A real ensemble piece with each of the characters fully developed and singing! Has been produced by the York Theatre in NY, and the Blue Grass Opera Company in Lexington, KY.

Dinkey Bird

Duration (in minutes): 9

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players

Instruments: any string, any woodwind, cello, flute, piano, violin

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine

Duration (in minutes): 1hr

Difficulty: Low (student/pedagogical)

Category: musical theater, young audiences

Description: Based on the book by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
What happens when Danny and his friends use a computer to do homework.

String Quartet No. 4

Duration (in minutes): 12'39;39'34;

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, string ensemble, string quartet

Instruments: any string, cello, viola, violin

Description: Three Movements.

Star Clusters

Duration (in minutes): 5'39;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet

Four Lullabies for Soprano and Piano

Duration (in minutes): 13'39;53'34;

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Description: 1. Sleep Baby Sleep 3' (Sung by Monet's wife to their baby)
2. Lullaby 4'26" (Sung by a Mammy to the white child she takes care of)
3. Strange Nursery 3' (Sung by a mother to her child while they are held as prisoners by the Japanese in World War II)
4. Jazz Lullaby 3'26" (Sung by a modern mother to her newborn)

Le Grand Cafe

Duration (in minutes): 1hr, 30min

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: choral, musical theater

Description: About the struggles of the Impressionists: Monet, Renoir, Degas; and the resulting difficulties of Monet and his wife, Camille.

CDs

INTERVALS – 24 Works for Piano

Twenty-four pieces with the idea of having the first two notes of each of them start with a different interval.

Composers: Julie Mandel

Buy URL 2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/intervals-24-works-for-piano-by-julie-mandel/id1294113147

Pious Cat

The Pious Cat

Composers: Julie Mandel

VIDEOS

Intervals - for piano

Composer: Julie Mandel

Description: Three of 24 “Intervals” for piano played by Italian pianist, Paolo Bartolani.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIGRUqmi7b4

String Quartet #6

Composer: Julie Mandel

Description: The Allegro Movement of String Quartet #6 by Julie Mandel is played at North Shore Public Library on Nov. 7th, 2008 by The Stony Brook String Quintet.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNZfrwzg5eg

Love is a Two-Part Invention

Composer: Julie Mandel

Description: Performed by The Phoenix Quartet's David Root, David H. Orcutt and pianist Richard Pearson Thomas.

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIHTfJcCtrA

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