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Bruce Levine is a music and theatre professional, a
composer and a writer. His musical life began as an oboist, specializing on the
English Horn, playing with such orchestras as the Boston Symphony and as a
member of the original Broadway cast of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead. As a musical director/conductor/pianist his career has
spanned from Broadway to playing for Joni Mitchell in Madison Square Garden. About his earliest compositions Leonard Bernstein said
that they show “real musicality!” He’s written a featured song for Sesame
Street, arrangements for Barry Manilow and Stevie Wonder and classical pieces
ranging from works for solo instruments to symphony orchestra; published by
Carl Fischer, Theodore Presser, Norsk Musikforlag, Wingert-Jones and over
sixty of his pieces can be Seen and Heard on Art of Sound Music. His shows
have been produced in New York and around the country. Bruce’s recent compositions include pieces for solo
instruments, Septet for mixed chamber ensemble, The River for
woodwind quintet, Phantasmagoria for brass sextet, New England
Winter for orchestra, Essay No. 2 for band, Gabrielle: A
Concert Waltz for orchestra, Concerto for Winds and Brass, Phantasy
for oboe and string quartet, Essay No. 3 for English Horn, clarinet,
violin, viola and cello, Essay No. 4 for mixed ensemble, Serenade
for Strings for string orchestra and A Prayer for flute and string
quartet. A Pushcart Prize poetry nominee, Spillwords Press Awards winner, and a Featured Writer in WestWard Quarterly. Over three hundred of his works are published on over twenty-five on-line journals, in over seventy anthologies and the chapbook Sweet Dreams. |
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