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PictureFestival De Música Americana, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1965.
Featured Work

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Op. 18

John Donald Robb was a guest composer at the Festival of American Music in São Paulo, Brazil, 18 July 1964. The program consisted of Aaron Copland's An Outdoor Overture, Symphonic Set by Henry Cowell, School for Scandal by Samuel Barber, and Robb's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 18.

Pianist Yara Ferraz performed the Robb Concerto with the São Paulo Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Souza Lima.

The recording is provided by Instituto Piano Brasileiro.



Available for Performance

Numerous John Donald Robb compositions are available for performance at no cost.


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Categories
Robb's compositions are divided by instrumentation:
  • chamber
  • choral
  • opera
  • orchestra
  • organ
  • piano
  • vocal

Delivery

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Repertoire

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  • Chamber
  • Choral
  • Opera
  • Orchestra
  • Organ
  • Piano
  • Vocal
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Concertino
for viola, piano



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Miniatures: Five Short Pieces (Shelter Island, 1963)
for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba, percussion


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Piers the Ploughman, Opus 27
for clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, narrator
 



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Poem, Opus 94
for clarinet, cello, piano
 



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Prelude and Commentary, Opus 166 (1979)
for 3 trumpets, 2 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, 3
percussion



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Quintet Opus, 82 (1977)
for 2 violins, viola, cello, piano  



Sonata, Opus 75
for cello, piano



Sonata No. 1, Opus 2
for violin, piano



Sonata No. 2, Opus 63
for violin, piano



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String Quartet No. 2, Opus 38 
for 2 violins, viola, cello



String Quartet No. 3, Opus 93 
for 2 violins, viola, cello


Suite, Opus 4
for flute (or oboe, clarinet I, violin), viola
(or clarinet II, bass clarinet, cello), also available for solo piano


Three Hispanic Folksongs, Opus 68
for string quartet, string quartet & voice, instrumental solo & piano, voice & piano, oboe, violin, piano trio

Triangulum, Opus 84
for clarinet, piano (clarinet part currently not available) 
 



Trio, Opus 68
for oboe
, violin, piano


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Triptych (three fugues), Opus 71
for oboe, clarinet, bassoon
 


Variations on a Chromatic Line, Opus 29
for horn, piano
 



Wedding Music, Opus 7
for violin (clarinet, viola, cello), organ


Little Dove, (La Palomita), Opus 10, for SSATB

Little Dove, (La Palomita), Opus 10a, arranged for SAB

Los Pastores (The Shepherds, A Christmas Cantata), Opus 62, for SATB Chorus and Piano (also for Chorus and Chamber Ensemble) available in English and Spanish

O Never Mourn, for SATB Choir

Psalm 23:  The Lord is My Shepherd, Opus 37, No. 1 for SATB Chorus with Piano or Organ

Psalm 103: Bless The Lord, O My Soul, Opus 37, No. 3, for Baritone, SATB Chorus, and Piano

Psalm 104:  Bless The Lord, O My Soul, for SATB Chorus and Piano

Requiem Mass, Opus 87, for SATB Chorus and Chamber Orchestra (with Organ and/or Piano); SATB Chorus, Strings and Organ (or Piano); SATB Chorus and Organ; and SATB Chorus and Piano

Song for New Mexico, for SATB, SA Choir, and Solo Voice

The Wind-Swept Sea, Opus 37, No. 6, for TTBB and Piano

Touchstones of Liberty (Words by Thomas Jefferson), for SATB and Piano

Two Songs:  “I Am Very Old Tonight” and “Tears”, Opus 57,  arranged for Women's Chorus, Oboe, and Piano

What Is This Glory? Opus 36, No. 4c, for SATB Chorus 
Little Jo, Opus 17, a Folk Opera      
Art Songs, arranged for Vocal Soloist and Orchestra (also with piano reduction):   
  • To Electra 
  • A la ru 
  • Goodnight My Love 
  • I Am Very Old Tonight 
  • Tonight My Heart Is On the Hill 
  • The Last Revel 
  • Tears 
  • Cradle Song  
 
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 18 
 
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Opus 24 
 
Dances from Taxco, Opus 85 
 
Elegy for the War Dead for String Orchestra (2nd Movement of Symphony No. 1), Opus 16 
 
Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico, arranged for Soprano and Orchestra 
  • Pedimento de las posadas 
  • Cuando por el oriente 
  • De la real Jerusalén 
  • Levantada de Bartola 
  • Ofrecimiento de los Pastores 
  • Vamos todos a Belén 
  • A la ru 
  • Corrido de Elena 
  • Corrido de la muerte de Antonio Maestas 
  • Palomita que vienes herida 
  • Sierra Nevada 
  • El muchacho alegre 
  • Indita de Amarante Martinez 
  • Sandovalito 
  • Mi carro Ford 
 
Symphony No. 1 in C Major for String Orchestra, Opus 16 
 
Symphony No. 3 in One Movement, Opus 34 
 
Three Hispanic Folksongs from “Hispanic Folksongs of New Mexico” 
  • Indita de Amarante Martínez 
  • A la ru 
  • Don Simón 
    arranged for String Orchestra; also can be performed with String Quartet, String Quartet w/Voice, Instrumental Solo w/piano, and Piano w/Voice 

Introduction and Toccata for Organ, Opus 30

​Overture and Fugue arranged for Organ

Wedding Music for Violin and Organ, Opus 7, with optional versions for Clarinet, Viola, or Cello
Compositions for Piano by J.D. Robb, selected and edited by Tatiana Vetrinskaya

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 18

Little Suite, Opus 13a

Pictures of New Mexico, Opus 12

Post Impressionist Paintings, Opus 14

Scenes from a New Mexico Mountain Village, Opus 9a, (Piano Reduction)

Sonatina for Piano:  Three Incidents from Liliom,
Opus 22

Three Impressions for Piano,
Opus 15  

Art Songs by J. D. Robb arranged for Vocal Soloist and Orchestra (also with piano reduction):
  • To Electra
  • A la ru
  • Goodnight My Love
  • I Am Very Old Tonight
  • Tonight My Heart Is On the Hill
  • The Last Revel
  • Tears
  • Cradle Song

Ballad of the Dreamland Rose for Voice and Piano

Before the Gathering of the Clouds, Sioux melody, with transliterated Sioux text

Eight Songs for Voice & Piano, Opus 6c, in high, medium and low voice collections
  • April
  • Good Night  My Love
  • The Last Revel
  • Richmond Hill
  • Tears
  • To Electra
  • Tonight My Heart is on the Hill
  • The Trial of Sangre de Cristos Escathe de Calderon

El Tecolote, Hispanic song for Voice, Oboe, and Harp or Piano

Five Songs on texts by James Russell Lowell, Opus 36, for High, Medium, or Low Voice
  • The Fountain
  • A Requiem; Freedom
  • What is This Glory?
  • Life.
  • Appendix 4A: an alternate accompaniment for What Is This Glory? Retitled: A Christmas Carol

Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico, arranged for Soprano and Orchestra
  • Pedimento de las posadas
  • Cuando por el oriente
  • De la real Jerusalén
  • Levantada de Bartolo
  • Ofrecimiento de los Pastores
  • Vamos todos a Belén
  • A la ru
  • Corrido de Elena
  • Corrido de la muerte de Antonio Maestas
  • Palomita que vienes herida
  • Sierra Nevada
  • El muchacho alegre
  • Indita de Amarante Martinez
  • Sandovalito
  • Mi carro Ford

Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico, arranged for Voice & Piano
  • Pedimento de las posadas
  • Cuando por el oriente
  • De la real Jerusalén
  • Levantada de Bartolo
  • Ofrecimiento de los Pastores
  • Vamos todos a Belén
  • A la ru
  • Corrido de Elena
  • Corrido de la muerte de Antonio Maestas
  • Palomita que vienes herida
  • Sierra Nevada
  • El muchacho alegre
  • Indita de Amarante Martinez
  • Sandovalito
  • Mi carro Ford

I Know a Tiny Angel, for Medium voice and Piano

My Homeland, for Medium Voice and Piano

Psalm 23:  The Lord is My Shepherd, for High Voice, or Duet for High and Low Voices with Piano or Organ

Seven Songs for Voice and Piano, Opus 6b, in high, medium and low voice collections
  • The Piper's March
  • Tragedy
  • A Soldier's Sonnet
  • Snow Song
  • Wild Easter
  • Requiem
  • The Drivers

Shelter Island, for Medium Voice and Piano

The Shepherdess, Opus 77, for Medium Voice and Piano

Wedding Song, Opus 76 (1971), for Medium Voice and Piano ​ 

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