Compositions

Orchestra
Concert Band
Transcriptions for Two Clarinets and Bass Clarinet
Clarinet Solo
Bass Clarinet Solo
Clarinet Solo With Concert Band
Clarinet and Piano
Clarinet and String Quartet
Lead Sheets for Yiddish Cowboys
Woodwind Quintet
Songs
Four Bass Clarinets and Contrabass Clarinet
Four Bassoons and Contrabassoon
Clarinet Choir
Flute Solo
Clarinet and Violin
Violin and Piano
Drum and Bugle Corps
World of Warcraft Arrangements for SxSW

 

Orchestra

•  Drapkin: A Klezmer Set
  Premiered by the Pearland Chamber Orchestra

 

Concert Band

• Drapkin: Dowland Suite for Band
  Premiered by the Manhattan Wind Ensemble
  1.  Fine Knacks for Ladies
  2.  Sir John Souchs Galliarde
  3.  Lady Hundsons Alman
  4.  Flowe My Tears
  5.  Farewell Unkind
  6.  Come When I Call
  7.  Fantasia
•  Drapkin: Suite of Old Yiddish Melodies
  Premiered by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
•  Drapkin: The Rabbi Chaplain’s March
  Premiered by the Navy Band of the West
•  Gershwin: Walking the Dog for Clarinet Solo and Concert Band (Arr. Drapkin)
  Premiered by the Rockland County Concert Band
•  Drapkin: Dinicu: Tempest Hora for Clarinet and Band (Arr. Drapkin/Combes)
  Premiered by the Spirit of America Silver Cornet Band
•  Dovid’l Bazetst di Kallah for Clarinet and Band (Arr. Drapkin/Combes)
  Premiered by the Teaneck Band
• Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite for Band (Arr. Drapkin)
  1.  Opener
  2.  Clarinet Waltz
  3.  Presentation of the Rose
  4.  Waltz I
  5.  Di rigori armato
  6.  Waltz II
  7.  End of Opera
• Drapkin: My Resting Place
  Premiered by the Mile High Freedom Band
• Drapkin: By the Fireside
  Premiered by the Colorado Wind Ensemble
• Drapkin: Three Tallis Songs for Band
  1.  If Ye Love Me
  2.  Why Fumth in Fight
  3.  God Grant We Grace

 

Transcriptions for Two Clarinets and Bass Clarinet

•  Alford: Army of the Nile March
•  Alford: Colonel Bogey March
•  Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
•  Bagley: National Emblem March
•  Balakirev: Volga Boatmen
•  Barber: Adagio for Strings
•  Berlioz: March to the Gallows from Symphonie Fantastique
•  Chopin: Military Polonaise
•  Dinicu: Tempest Hora
•  Disney:Mickey Mouse
•  Doors: Light My Fire
• Dowland:
  1.  Dowland: All People that on Earth do Dwell
  2.  Dowland: Come Again
  3.  Dowland: Come Heavy Sleep
  4.  Dowland: Come When I Call
  5.  Dowland: Dr. Case’s Pavane
  6.  Dowland: Fantasia
  7.  Dowland: Farewell
  8.  Dowland: Farewell Unkind
  9.  Dowland: Fine Knacks for Ladies
  10.  Dowland: Flowe My Tears
  11.  Dowland: Kemp’s Jig
  12.  Dowland: Lady Hundson’s Alman
  13.  Dowland: Sir John Souch’s Galliarde
  14.  Dowland: The Frog Galliard
•  Drapkin: The Yellow Rose of Mozart
•  Duble: Bravura
•  Elgar: Nimrod
•  Fillmore: Lassus Bass Clarinet
•  Fucik: Entry of the Gladiators (march)
•  Gounod: The King of Thule
•  Grafulla: Washington Greys (march)
• Holst: First Suite in Eb for Military Band
  1.  Chaconne
  2.  Intermezzo
  3.  March
•  Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance
•  K.L. King: Barnum & Bailey’s Favorite (march)
•  Klingon Anthem
•  Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite – Intermezzo
•  Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony Slow Movement
•  Mendelssohn: Wedding March
•  Mickey Mouse
•  Mozart: Adagio in F
• Mozart: Divertimento Number 1
  1.  Allegro
  2.  Menuetto
  3.  Adagio
  4.  Menuetto
  5.  Rondo
• Mozart: Divertimento Number 2
  1.  Allegro
  2.  Menuetto
  3.  Larghetto
  4.  Menuetto
  5.  Rondo
• Mozart: Divertimento Number 3
  1.  Allegro
  2.  Menuetto
  3.  Adagio
  4.  Menuetto
  5.  Rondo
• Mozart: Divertimento Number 4
  1.  Allegro
  2.  Larghetto
  3.  Menuetto
  4.  Adagio
  5.  Allegretto
• Mozart: Divertimento Number 5
  1.  Adagio
  2.  Menuetto
  3.  Adagio
  4.  Romance – Andante
  5.  Polonaise
•  Mozart: Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail
•  Mozart: Overture to Die Hochzeit des Figaro
•  Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte
•  Pachelbel: Canon
•  Puccini: Nessun Dorma
•  Rossini: Largo Al Factotum
•  Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
•  Schubert: Octet – 3rd Mvmt Allegro Vivace
•  Sousa: Fairest of the Fair(march)
•  Sousa: King Cotton (march)
• Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
  1.  Overture
  2.  Chacun a son gout
  3.  Bruderlein
  4.  Die Majestat ist amerkannt
•  Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel (entire tone poem)
• Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite
  1.  March – Seventeen Come Sunday
  2.  Intermezzo – My Bonnie Boy
  3.  March – Folk Songs from Somerset
• Verdi: Opera Trios (published by Roncorp)
  1.  La Traviata: Parigi, o Cara
  2.  La Traviata: Un di felice, eterea
  3.  Rigoletto: La donna e mobile
• Verdi: Scena e Romanza from La Forza Del Destino
•  J.F. Wagner: Under the Double Eagle (march)
•  Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
•  Wagner: Magic Fire Music

 

Clarinet Solo

• Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
  1.  Toccata
  2.  Fugue
•  Drapkin: Elegy to the Memory of Lauren Hoffman
• Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream
  1.  Nocturne
  2.  Wedding March

 

Bass Clarinet Solo

•  The Rite of Spring for Solo Bass Clarinet

 

Clarinet Solo with Concert Band

•  Dinicu: Tempest Hora (Arranged with Ron Combes)
•  Gershwin: Walking the Dog
• Tarras: Dovid’l Bazetst Di Kallah (doina and chosid’l) (Arranged with Ron Combes)

 

Clarinet and Piano

•  Dinicu: Tempest Hora (Published by Roncorp)
•  Drapkin: Suite of Old Yiddish Melodies
•  Gershwin: Walking the Dog
•  Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (Raisins and Almonds)
•  Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Published by Roncorp)
•  Webber: Music of the Night

 

Clarinet and String Quartet

•  Led Zeppelin: In The Light
•  The Band: The Last Waltz
• Mozart: Quintet No. 2 in A, K. 622 (from the Clarinet Concerto A)
  1.  Allegro
  2.  Adagio
  3. Rondo: Allegro
• Weber: Quintet No. 2 in Eb, Op. 74 (from the Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb)
  1.  Allegro
  2.  Romanze (Andante)
  3.  Alla Polacca

 

Lead Sheets for Yiddish Cowboys

• B’vokach Yam Suf
• Carlebach Medley
• Chanukah Set
• Dayenu
• Eliyahu Ha Navi
• Go Down, Moses
• Harvey and Sheila
• Hora Bialek
• Israeli Medley No. 1
• Israeli Medley No. 2
•  Jewish Medley
• Klezmer Dance Set No. 1
• Klezmer Dance Set No. 2
• Klezmer Set in Bb
• Layehudim
• L’shanah Habaah
•  Mamas Don’t Let Your Sons Become Yiddish Cowboys
•  Miserlou
• Mishenichnas Adar
• Oyfn Prepichik
• Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
• Shoshanas Yaakov
•  Tempest Hora
•  Terkishe Yale V’Yove Tantz
•  V’David
• Venahapoch
•  Zemer Atik

 

Woodwind Quintet

•  Bartok: Music For Strings, Percussion, Celeste; Allegro
•  The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby
•  Beethoven: Seventh Symphony, 2nd Movement
•  Dinicu: Tempest Hora
• Drapkin: Dowland Suite for Woodwind Quintet
  1.  Fine Knacks for Ladies
  2.  Sir John Souchs Galliarde
  3.  Lady Hundsons Alman
  4.  Flowe My Tears
  5.  Farewell Unkind
  6.  Come When I Call
  7.  Fantasia
•  Drapkin: Entr’acte
•  Led Zeppelin: In the Light
•  Miserlou
•  Ravel: Piece en forme de Habanera
•  Mennin: Canzona
•  Ticheli: Blue Shades

 

Songs

•  Drapkin: I Love My Swee
•  Drapkin: My Name Is Yeh
•  Schneur Zalman: Melody of Four Stanzas

 

Four Bass Clarinets and Contrabass Clarinet

•  Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Prelude

 

Four Bassoons and Contrabassoon

•  Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Prelude

 

Clarinet Choir

• Drapkin: Dowland Suite for Clarinet Choir
  1.  Fine Knacks for Ladies
  2.  Sir John Souchs Galliarde
  3.  Lady Hundsons Alman
  4.  Flowe My Tears
  5.  Farewell Unkind
  6.  Come When I Call
  7.  Fantasia
•  Tallis: If You Love Me
•  Lassus Bass Clarinet

 

Flute Solo

•  Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

 

Clarinet and Violin

•  Ravel: Piece en Forme de Habanera

 

Violin and Piano

•  The Doors: Light My Fire

 

Drum and Bugle Corps/Brass Band

•  Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Introduction

 

World of Warcraft Arrangements for South By Southwest

•  Grizzly Hills Introduction
•  Grizzly Hills
•  Lament of the Highborne (performance at SXSW)
•  Sunstrider March (performance at SXSW)
•  Lion’s Pride (performance at SXSW)