Steve Sauder Composer

Orchestral and Neo-Classical Composition and Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games.

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Rhapsody on a Theme by Philip Glass

Posted by Steve Sauder on September 6, 2014
Posted in: Classical, Orchestra. Tagged: Philip Glass. Leave a comment

As part of Philip Glass’ 75th birthday year in 2012, I composed a Rhapsody based on a 3-chord progression from Philip Glass’ score for “Koyaaniqatsi”.  It was done for a group of new composers influenced by his work.  The approximately 8-minute piece is scored for full orchestra and solo piano.

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Nocturne

Posted by Steve Sauder on August 23, 2014
Posted in: Classical, Orchestra. 2 Comments

NocturneCoverSmallNocturne is a neo-classical tone poem for full orchestra.  It is scored for:  strings (violin, viola, cello, contrabass), harp, tubular bells, percussion (chinese gong, snares, tin toms, whip, crash & glass cymbals), 4 timpani, celesta (or glockenspiel, if played with wrapped mallets), woodwinds (bassoons, cor anglais, oboes, clarinets, piccolo, flutes) and brass (tuba, bass trombone, trombones, french horns, trumpets) and takes approximately 8 – 9 minutes to perform.

Nocturne is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes that take place from sunset to sunrise in the deep forest. There are 6 sections (the times in parentheses are approximate start times from the MP3 performance below):

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