The Music of Stephen Jaffe <br> Vol. 2 <BR> BRIDGE 9141Winner: Koussevitzky International Recording Award 10 10 "Highest Rating" Classicstoday. com Born in 1954, Stephen Jaffe is an important emerging American composer. This release coincides with the National Symphony Orchestra's world premiere performance in January 2004 of Jaffe's new "Cello Concerto", and brings to the catalog two major Jaffe scores from the 1990s the thirty five minute "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra" and the more compact 20

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where she is accompanied by the American pianist Ursula Oppens

Trueman's music is a sensuous and hypnotic blend of instrumental sound

drawn in a series of eight movements

Muskateers March

made at Colorado College

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Sharpshooters March (Reprise)