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Table of Contents (Click on the link to go to that section):

Opera / Music Theater Symphonic Works
Vocal and Choral Music Instrumental Chamber Music


OPERA / MUSIC THEATER

Full Evening Operas:

Germain is a tragic opera in four acts for baritone, tenor, alto, soprano, bass, and orchestra. James Holland incorporates many Africa rhythms.

Menkaure is a modern opera in three acts for soprano, bass, tenor, coloratura and baritone. It is an opera buffa about a young woman who falls in love with an Egyptian statue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Perfect for the musical theater stage.

On the Wings of the Scarlett Messenger, a contemporary opera in 4 acts, based on the Henry James' novel On the Wings of A Dove. This version is set in the tropical Asian Pacific or Polynesia.

GERMAIN
A Modern Opera Tragedy in Four Acts
(Duration: 2 hrs.)
(Click here for the summary
and demo page)

MENKAURE
A Modern Opera Buffa in Three Acts
(Duration: 2hrs)
(Click here or on the picture
to go to the summary and demo page)

ON THE WINGS OF THE
SCARLETT MESSENGER
(Based on a Henry James novel) 
A Serious Opera in Four Acts
(Duration: 2hrs)

 




One Act Operas:

One Act Opera, The Discontented Housewife, is an operatic farce ( comedic opera ) for singers, coloratura and baritone, and orchestra. Inspired by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

The One Upstairs is a one act opera buffa for coloratura and alto Broadway belter and orchestra. Solo arias and duets. Buy the vocal score here on composer, James Nathaniel Holland website. Contemporary Opera one act

O Holy Art is a contemporary one act tragic opera for baritone, soprano, bass, alto and orchestra. Buy the sheet music for this opera here.

THE DISCONTENTED HOUSEWIFE:
An Operatic Farce in One Ridiculously Short Act
(Duration: 1/2hr) (Click here to go to the summary and demo page)

THE ONE UPSTAIRS
Opera Buffa
(humorous, not hysterical) in One Act
(Duration: 40 min.)

O HOLY ART  
A Tragedy in One Act
(Duration: 1 hour)



Music Theater and Miscellaneous Theater Works:

A Lucky Star (Operetta / Music Theater) 2 hours,  (Sample:  Bad Ain't So Bad, performed by Alexis Wesley)
 
The Boker (Tropical Operetta / Music Theater) 2 hours

Incidental Music to Shakespeare's As You Like It (Jazz / Rock Style) (Sample:  Under the Greenwood Tree, Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, performed by J. N. Holland)

Incidental Music to I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Subject of Terezin Concentration Camp) (Sample:  Opening / Clarinet Solo)



SYMPHONIC WORKS:

Symphony No. 1, The Dawning of 2012 ( Highlights 1, Opening and 2nd themes, Highlights 2, Middle Section, Highlights 3, Later Section and Finale ) (Total length: 40 min.)

Symphony No. 2, Praise to Haitian Gods (Total length: 35 min.)

Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, "O Brasiliero" (Samples from:  Mvmt 1, Mvmt 2, Mvmt 3)

Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra (25 min.) (Sample:  Highlights 1, Highlights 2 )

Postcard from Brazil, Tone Poem for Orchestra  (20 min.)

The Fundraiser (A fantasia for symphony orchestra, 24 min., Sample Realization)

Sonnet XVIII for Chamber Orchestra (Strings and Winds, 7 min, Sample realization) 

Requiem, Concert piece for orchestra, chorus, and soloists


 

INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC:


Solo Piano:

Meditations (9 pieces, Samples No. 1, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7, and No. 9)

Music for the Morning (16 pieces to wake up to)

4 Nocturnes

Transcription of 3 Faure Songs

Wedding Music Suite (All Original Music: Prelude, Entrance, Fanfare/Bridal March, Lighting of the Candle, Exit Music)

A Musical Offering


Strings:

String Quartet No. 1  (Set on poems about the holidays and winter, Sample Realizations:  Mvmt 1, Mvmt 2, Mvmt 5)

String Quartet No. 2  (4 movement piece, Sample Realization:  Mvmt 1, Mvmt 2, Mvmt 3, Mvmt 4)

Sonata for Violin and Piano (3 movements)

The Storyteller (Piece for Double Bass and Piano, Sample Realization)

Allegro and Adagio for Cello and Piano

Autumnsong  (Flute, Violin, Viola and Piano, One Movement, 10 min.) (Sample Realization)


Woodwinds:

Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn, Bassoon, Three Movements, Samples: Mvmt 1, Mvmt 2, Mvmt 3)

An Italian Suite for Trio (Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, 4 movements, Mvmt 1, Mvmt 2, Mvmt 3, Mvmt 4)

Millepede for Flute and Piano (3 movements)

Lament for Solo Clarinet (1 movement, Sample)


Brass:

Coffee Klatchin' (For Trombone Choir) 


   

VOCAL AND CHORAL MUSIC:


Song Cycles and Collections:

Complete Collection of Shakespeare Sonnets for Baritone (or Tenor) and Piano (9 Sonnets, Samples: Sonnet 128, Sonnet 14, Sonnet 80 )

Canciones Latinas, Spanish Poetry throughout the Centuries for Soprano and Piano (14 songs, Part I and II, 45 min.)

Songs from Shakespeare's "As You Like It" (See above as well) for Voice and Piano

Holland Opera Anthology, Arias from the Holland Operas (See above as well) for Voice and Piano



Choral Music:

Hell No!  A Fugue for Male Chorus

Requiem, Concert Piece for Orchestra, SATB Chorus and Soloists

Villagers All This Frosty Morn (Christmas Carol, Text: Kenneth Grahamme)

O Truth Where Are You Now? (SATB from the Holland Opera Germain)

Lament  (Two pieces for SATB Chorus)

Not From the Stars (Shakespeare Sonnet, arrang. for Treble Chorus SSA)

Allo! (from Holland's "The Despot", arrang. for 2 part children's chorus)

 

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