Music Commissions
Three Featured Composers:
Aaron Jay Kernis
Steve Heitzeg
Jon Deak
LISTEN to playlists of music commissioned over the years
Minnesota Public Radio Interviews:
Stephen Paulus wrote and shared glorious music, Oct. 21, 2014
The night Uncle Clarence went out to kill a white man, April 4, 2018
Jack and Linda's commissioning work got national attention in a 1989 segment on the PBS NewsHour. This copy from the personal archive of the correspondent, Fred de Sam Lazaro.
Dominique Le Gendre: Missa Brevis, Canterbury Cathedral
Paul Schoenfield Memorial Concert
Scott Wheeler: A Woman of Her Time: Coco Chanel Sings; (premiere performance)
Jon Deak: The Passion of Scrooge
Jon Deak's Ingmar and the Bear in rehearsal with the 21st Century Consort, Washington, DC, April 8, 2024
Jon Deak: The Jury
Jon Deak: Greta, the Fearless, Part 1 (21st Century Consort)
Stephen Paulus: Courtship Songs (1981)
Stephen Paulus: Partita (1986)
Stephen Paulus: Partita (1986)
Stephen Paulus: Partita (1986)
Klaus Roy: A Name in Music (1991)
Aaron Jay Kernis: Brilliant Sky, Infinite Sky (1991). Sanford Sylvan, Linda, Jorja Fleezanis, Aaron
Mark Warhol: Happy Birthday, Linda (1994)
Stephen Paulus: Meditations of Li Po (1994)
Mark Warhol: Happy Birthday, Linda (1994)
Stephen Paulus: Meditations of Li Po (1994)
Lawrence Siegel: Linda's 50th Birthday
Liz Schmidt: You May Have Your Whims (1994)
Philip Blackburn: You Want to Belong to Movements (1994)
Fritz Bergmann: From the Pioneer Press (1994)
Steve Heitzeg: On the Day You Were Born (1994)
Stephen Paulus: And Even My Soul Remains Quiet from Meditations of Li Po (1994)
Daniel Godfrey: From a Dream of Russia (1996)
Stephen Paulus: Partita Appassionata (1996)
Stephen Paulus: Partita Appassionata (1996)
Carol Barnett: Piano (After D.H. Lawrence) (1996)
Aaron Jay Kernis: Five Etudes (1996)
Paul Schoenfield: Happy Birthday, Linda (1996)
Paul Schoenfield: Happy Birthday, Linda (1996)
Jack, Paul Schoenfield, Linda,
Aaron Jay Kernis: String Quartet, No. 2 (1997)
Linda, Aaron J Kernis and the Lark Quartet: String Quartet, No. 2 (1997)
Jeffrey Brooks: Dreadnought (1997)
Jeffrey Brooks: Dreadnought (1997)
Jeffrey Brooks: Dreadnought (1997)
Ermir Dergjini: For a Good Man (1997)
Ermir Dergjini: Symphony No. 2 (For a Good Man) (1997)
Ermir Dergjini: For a Good Man (1997)
Bill Banfield: The Listened Silences at Goose Lake (1998)
Bill Banfield: When Two (1998)
Steve Heitzeg: Three Graces for Hildur (1998)
Jack, Steve Paulus, Linda, Bjorn, Judy and David Ranheim
Stephen Paulus: Brown Penny (1998)
Jon Deak: The Passion of Scrooge (1998)
Daniel Godfrey: Symphony in Minor (1999)
Stephen Paulus: Awakening (1999)
Stephen Paulus: Awakening (1999)
John Corigliano: A Monograph (2001)
Dale Warland: O Little Town of Bethlehem (2003)
Stephen Paulus: Be My Friend, Love (2003)
Zhou Long: Taigu Rhyme (2003)
Zhou Long (2003)
Thanks from Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: Symphony (2003)
Steve Heitzeg: Nine Spaces in a Garden (2003)
Aaron Jay Kernis: Linda's Waltz (2003)
Gordon Beeferman: Phenomena (2003)
Aaron Jay Kernis: Linda's Waltz (2003)
Lawrence Siegel: Kristen and Terry's Wedding Waltz (2003)
Dale Warland: O Little Town of Bethlehem (2003)
Janika Vandervelde: Monapacataca (2004)
Janika Vandervelde: Monapacataca (2004)
Steve Heitzeg: Lavender is My Contentment (2004)
Steve Heitzeg: Lavender is My Contentment (2004)
Steve Heitzeg: Lavender is My Contentment (2004)
Stephen Paulus: Above Me, Round Me Lie (2004)
Jennifer Higdon: Oboe Concerto (2005)
Sven-David Sandström: Five Pictures from the Bible (2005)
Thomas Hampson (Steven Paulus: A Heartland Portrait, 2006)
Stephen Paulus: A Heartland Portrait (2006)
Bob Chilcott: High Flight (2008)
Bob Chilcott: High Flight (2008) Kings Singers
Giles Swayne: The Word (2010)
Steve Heitzeg: I Will Be A Hummingbird (2015)
Jeffrey Brooks: Capriccio On the Departure of a Beloved Brother (2015)
Kevin Puts: The Manchurian Candidate (2015)
Steve Heitzeg: I Will Be a Hummingbird (2015)
Bob Chilcott: Thou, My Love, Art Fair (2015)
Bob Chilcott: Thou, My Love, Art Fair (2015)
Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (2017)
Gabriel Kahane: We Are the Saints (2021)
Janika Vandervelde: Pavane (A Love Dance) (2022)
Jon Deak: Ingmar and the Bear (2023)
Steve Heitzeg: Our House is on Fire (2024)