Julie Mandel
Julie Mandel
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.
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
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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)
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"
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
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.
Private Place
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;14'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Lois Wyse
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
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
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
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.
Unending Love
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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.
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.
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
Spring is Here
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble
Quiet Winter Morning - for String Orchestra
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble
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"
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'
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'
Flute Quartet
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: flute quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Star Clusters
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet
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
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
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
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
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.
For Aglia
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Two movements:
1. Sunset 3'
2. Floating Clouds 3'
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
"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.
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
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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)
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"
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
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.
Private Place
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;14'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Lois Wyse
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
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
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
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.
Unending Love
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Description: Poem by Rabindranath Tagore
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.
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.
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.
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
Spring is Here
Duration (in minutes): 8'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble
Quiet Winter Morning - for String Orchestra
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string ensemble
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"
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'
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'
Flute Quartet
Duration (in minutes): 2'39;41'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: flute quartet, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Star Clusters
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind quartet
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
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
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
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
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.
For Aglia
Duration (in minutes): 6'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: piano
Description: Two movements:
1. Sunset 3'
2. Floating Clouds 3'
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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