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William bolcoms graceful ghost, adapted by george winston. Each member of the ensemble has the opportunity to play both a mallet instrument and toms. Graceful ghost national medal of arts, pulitzer prize, and grammy awardwinner william bolcom born may 26, 1938 is an american composer of keyboard, chamber, operatic, vocal, choral, and symphonic music. I just thought this was a really cool sounding piece, so im uploading it for my eportfolio. Transpose, print or convert pdf and learn to play concert band score in minutes. He began composition studies with john verall at an early age and continued with darius milhaud at mills college, and with milhaud and olivier messiaen in paris. The graceful ghost william bolcom was born in seattle, washington in 1938.
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