Original
Compositions: (all by Ron Wasserman unless otherwise noted)
Full Orchestra:
Anniversary Fanfare
This was premiered
July 5, 2005 as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Saratoga Performing
Arts Center, performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra, conducted by
Maurice Kaplow
String Orchestra:
Suite of Historical
Dances
For strings and harpsichord continuo, with an
1. Overture in the
French Baroque style 
and the
following dance movements:
2. Polka
3. Waltz (not recorded)
4. Tango (a long excerpt featuring Paolo Bordignon)
5. Jitterbug
6. Hustle (not recorded)
7. Moon Walk.
30 Mins. Parts available on hire. Call or write. Recorded on Lament and
Restoration CD
violin and piano:
Tango Sonata
Three tangos for
violin and piano in the form of a sonata.
16 minutes.
1. The Violin and Piano Play
for the Dancers
2. The Violin and Piano Dance
a Tango with Each Other
3. The Violin and Piano Dance
with the Violinist and Pianist
Piano Solo:
Ghaleb and the Donkey a very short ballet for two boys.
It’s based on the true story of how an overexcited donkey stepped on the
foot of a child during a ballet performance on the stage of the New York State
Theater. 4 Mins. Recorded on Trilaterus CD
double bass music:
1. Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
dedicated to Frank Proto.
Versions for both solo and orchestra tuning available. 30 mins.
1. Allegro non troppo con intrepidezza
4. Doloroso con molto rubato/cullando e rotolando
2. Pieces for
Basses, for five double basses
For five double basses in five movements. 30 mins. Movement 1 for 1 bass, movement 2 for 2 basses, etc. My first major composition, first composed in
1985, performed at the 1990 ISB convention, and newly revised.
3. Ballet
Fantasy, for solo bass,
the first two movements of which are published by Liben Music
in the Walter Family Album
4. Trilaterus, trio for violin, piano and double bass.
1. 4
X 408
Trombone Choir:
Battle of the Bones
For eight trombones in two groups of four. One group plays in a classical style, the other jazz. At the end, they play together. 9 mins.
Songs:
Unrealized
Dreams? Part I
Inaugural Addresses of the Recent Presidents,
for baritone and piano.
Wile, Joan What a Woman
(Homage to Peggy Lee)
Wasserman,
Herb Here’s to Music
Wasserman,
Herb At Least it’s Spring
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Arrangements: (all by Ron Wasserman)
Voice and Orchestra:
1. Traditional Motherless
Child
4 mins. Full score only.
Parts on Hire. Call or write.
2. Ellington, Duke Come Sunday
Arranged for mezzo-soprano, violin solo, and
strings, based on the Mahalia Jackson recording 6 mins.
Full score, call for parts on hire.
Mixed winds and
strings:
Piazzolla, Astor Music from the Peter Martins
Ballet “Todo Buenos Aires”
These tangos are arranged for Piano, Violin, Double Bass, French Horn, Clarinets, and Bandoneon
Various
Composers Fantasia on Fiorato’s Favorites
For string quintet, clarinet, and English horn. Includes quotations from
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff,
R. Strauss and Gershwin. Dedicated to Hugo Fiorato. 6 mins. Full Score available.
Trios for Violin,
Cello, bass
Tchaikovsky,
P. Jazz Waltz of the Flowers
Tchaikovsky,
P. Pas Doo-Wop
Various
Composers Piece d'occasion
Includes quotations from Stravinsky, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Roy Rogers, Richard Rodgers,
Paul Anka, and others.
Dedicated to Guillermo Figueroa. 6 mins.
bass and piano:
Strayhorn, Billy Suite de Trois
Chansons
Includes Love Under the Balcony, U.M.M.G., and Lush Life.
15 mins.
Mingus, Charles Fables of Faubus
5 Mins.
Pieces in progress:
Portraits of Dancers, for solo piano
A ballet for orchestra (unnamed for now, plot secret)
String Quartet
Preludes and Fugues for solo piano
Piano Sonata
That’s enough to work on for now
Contact:
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