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Aaron Jay Kernis

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Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960) is one of the most highly-honored contemporary composers. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University (under John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Morton Subotnick, and Charles Wuorinen). Notable works include the New Era Dance, his second string quartet musica instrumentalis (which won the 1998 Pulitzer prize), Colored Field for English horn and orchestra (winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition)

Top songs

  1. Musica Celestis for cello and orchestra
  2. Symphony In Waves
  3. Ecstatic Meditations: No. 2. How the Soul Speaks to God
  4. Symphony in Waves: Still movement
  5. Symphony in Waves: Continuous wave
  6. Musica Celestis
  7. String Quartet No. 2, "musica instrumentalis": I. Overture
  8. Symphony in Waves: Scherzo
  9. Ecstatic Meditaions: No. 2. How the Soul Speaks to God
  10. Salsa Pasada
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  1. Air
  2. Symphony in Waves: Intermezzo
  3. Kernis: Musica Celestis
  4. MOR* Easy Listening Slow Dance Ballad
  5. Air (Version for Flute & String Quartet)
  6. Mozart En Route (Or, A Little Traveling Music)
  7. String Quartet No. 3 “River”: I. Source
  8. Dance Party On The Disco Motorboat
  9. Superstar Etude #1
  10. Concerto for Violin: I. Chaconne
  11. 100 Greatest Dance Hits: No. 1, Introduction to the Dance Party
  12. Flute Concerto: IV. Taran-Tulla
  13. Air for Cello and Orchestra
  14. Symphony In Waves: Finale
  15. Introduction
  16. Concerto for Violin: III. Toccatini
  17. String Quartet No. 1 - musica celestis: Quasi una danza
  18. Simple Songs: Psalm 131
  19. Elegy (For Those We Lost) [Arr. for Trumpet & Harp]
  20. Nocturne
  21. String Quartet No. 1 - musica celestis: Musica celetis - Adagio
  22. Flute Concerto: II. Pastorale-Barcarolle
  23. Air for Violin
  24. Dreamsongs: I. Floating Dreamsongs
  25. Ballad
  26. Colored Field: concerto for cello and orchestra: I. Colored Field
  27. Concerto for Violin: II. Ballad
  28. Symphony In Waves: I. Continuous wave
  29. Epilogue: The Pure Suit Of Happiness
  30. 5: So Long To The Moon From The Men Of Apollo
  31. String Quartet No. 1 - musica celestis: Flowing
  32. Newly Drawn Sky
  33. String Quartet No. 1 - musica celestis: Scherzo - Trio semplice - Scherzo
  34. String Quartet No. 2 - Prelude / Air / Corrente / Stretto / Canzonetta / Musette / Canconetta / Piccola / Ritornelli Diversi e con Variazioni
  35. 3: The Pregnant Dream
  36. Lament and Prayer
  37. 2: Wednesday At The Waldorf
  38. String Quartet No. 1
  39. 100 Greatest Dance Hits: No. 2, Salsa Pasada
  40. String Quartet No. 2
  41. Colored Field: concerto for cello and orchestra: II. Pandora Dance
  42. On Hearing Nightbirds at Dusk
  43. String Quartet No. 2 - After Beethoven
  44. Americ (N) (Day) Dreams 1: A Navajo Blanket
  45. Colored Field: concerto for cello and orchestra: III. Hymns and Tablets
  46. Too Hot Toccata
  47. Viola Concerto: II. Romance
  48. Dreamsongs: II. Kora Song
  49. 4: The Blue Bottle
  50. I Colored Field
  51. Ecstatic Meditations: No. 3. I Cannot Dance, O Lord
  52. Ecstatic Meditations
  53. Ecstatic Meditation 4
  54. Invisible Mosaic III
  55. Viola Concerto: I. Braid
  56. 100 Greatest Dance Hits: No. 4, Dance Party on the Disco Motorboat
  57. Symphony No. 4 "Chromelodeon": III. Fanfare Chomelodia (Live)
  58. New Era Dance
  59. Symphony in Waves: II. Scherzo
  60. Flute Concerto: I. Portrait
  61. Symphony in Waves: IV. Intermezzo
  62. II Pandora Dance
  63. 100 Greatest Dance Hits: No. 3, MOR Easy Listening Slow Dance Ballad
  64. Symphony No. 2: I. Alarm
  65. Symphony No. 2: III. Barricade
  66. Flute Concerto: III. Pavan
  67. Symphony in Waves: V. Finale
  68. Symphony in Waves: III. Still movement
  69. III Hymns and Tablets
  70. Musica Celestis for string orchestra
  71. Musica Celestis - Arranged for String Orchestra by the composer
  72. First Club Date: III. Matt's Monkish Machinations
  73. Before Sleep and Dreams: Before - Produced
  74. Tumbalalaika (Arr. Aaron Jay Kernis)
  75. First Club Date: I. Prelude to a Pizz.
  76. Superstar Etude #2
  77. Air (Version for Flute & Orchestra)
  78. Ecstatic Meditations: No. 1. Effortlessly Love Flows
  79. Second Symphony: 1. Alarm
  80. Viola Concerto: III. A Song My Mother Taught Me
  81. Concerto with Echoes: I. Lontano. Tocatta. Molto allegro
  82. Simple Songs: Rumi
  83. Simple Songs: Hildegard Von Bingen
  84. Goblin Market: Part 1 - Introduction (Misterioso)
  85. Concierto de "Dance Hits": III. Salsa pasada
  86. Before Sleep and Dreams: IV. Lights Before Sleep
  87. First Club Date: II. Puppy Love
  88. Simple Songs: Psalm 1
  89. Musica Celestis (version for the strings)
  90. Before Sleep and Dreams: Play Before Lullaby - Produced

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