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[details ←] Pacific Celebration Suite, concert band,

[details ←] Mondavi Fanfare, concert band,

[details ←] Fiesta Del Pacifico, concert band,

[details ←] A Centennial Overture - Score, concert band,

[details ←] Fiesta Del Pacifico, concert band,

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[details ←] Christmas Bells, vocal, , choral, vocal,

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[details ←] 4 Duos, clarinet, oboe, flute,

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Born: 8 August 1921 — Tulare, CA — USA

Died: 13 October 2009 — Burlingame, CA — USA

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News for Nixon

Roger Nixon dies from leukemia
[posted 19 October 2009]
American composer Roger Nixon, who was especially known for his music for concert band, died on 19 October at the Mills Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame, USA. His son Mark said he died from complications from leukemia.
is compositions included many fanfares, marches and ceremonial works. However, he also wrote chamber music, song cycles, as well as an opera based on the Stephen Crane story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.”
For 30 years Roger Nixon also taught in the music department of San Francisco State University. He himself studied with Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch, and also with Arnold Schoenberg at USC.

Music

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Fiestael Pacifico
Festival Fanfare (march)
Elegy and fanfare (march)
Centennial Fanfare (march)
Music for clarinet and piano
24 piano preludes
The Christmas Tree
Long, long ago
Conversations for violin and clarinet
Conversations for Cello and clarinet

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