Symphony For Band was composed for a college level or professional concert band. This work is derived from my Piano Sonata composed in December 2017, and scored for concert band in March 2018.

Symphony For Band was composed for a college level or professional concert band. This work is derived from my Piano Sonata composed in December 2017, and scored for concert band in March 2018. I composed this work for concert band to address the enormous need for new contemporary music for this idiom and to raise the level of composition for this instrumental ensemble. The concert band is a beautiful ensemble and gives rise to music that is effective and accessible to a large cross section of the population without sounding commercial or crass.

 

Music For Film Composed, arranged and produced by Steven R. Lebetkin

Mix and mastering by Mark Roos.

 

 

Eleven Bagatelles For Solo Piano by Steven Lebetkin October/November 2017

 

The composer at the piano

 

Libera Me Fanfare For Freedom For Symphony Orchestra 2017

The genesis of this piece came as a result of the planning of the world premiere of my Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall with maestra Amy Andersson. Amy asked me if I had an overture to open the program that was centered around the concerto, but unfortunately I didn’t have one. Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man was programmed. I vowed to have one composed and ready as a concert opener for future performances.

Within a few weeks after the successful violin concerto premiere, I began work on a new fanfare. In consideration of Copland’s ever so popular fanfare, I learned that his work was a wartime composition; we live in different times and a fanfare for liberation and freedom is more reflective of what our nation and the world needs today. Hence, Libera Me (“free me”), a Fanfare for Freedom was born.

This short piece has three sections, which are reflective of humankind’s struggle for freedom. Part 1 touches upon the pain and agony of the captivity of the human spirit. Part 2 centers on the struggle to break free and gain freedom. In part 3, the human spirit has become free and in great celebration, and rises up in triumph to end the piece.

 

 

Interview of Steven Lebetkin and Amy Andersson on the world premiere of Concerto For Violin and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, October 7, 2017. Momo Wong, vioinist. Other works by Lolita Ritmanis, Overture to Light, and Peter Boyer, Ellis Island: The Dream of America.

The Journey to America: From Repression to Freedom.