Clare Grundman

Clare (Ewing) Grundman (May 11, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio – June 15, 1996 in South Salem, New York) was an American composer and arranger.

Biography He was born in Cleveland and graduated from Shaw High School in East Cleveland in 1930. He then attended Ohio State University , where he received a B.Sc degree in education in 1934. For a few years, he taught instrumental music in Ohio and Kentucky public schools, but returned to Ohio State in 1937, where he taught orchestration, applied lessons in woodwind instruments, and conducted the band. He received his MA degree in 1940.

Among his many awards were an Honorary Membership in the Women Band Directors International (1974), the AWAPA award of the National Band Association (1982), the American Bandmasters Association's Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation (1983), the Sudler Order of Merit of the John Philip Sousa Foundation (1990), and the American School Band Directors Association's Goldman Award (1992).

Music Grundman composed scores for films, radio, and television, as well as orchestrations for Broadway musicals. He also wrote a few works for various chamber ensembles Puppets (for two clarinets) Pat-a-Pan (Christmas carol for two flutes and snare drum) Scherzo (for six clarinets) Three Medieval Sketches (Joust, Chapel, and Pagent) (for two horns in F) Tuba Rhapsody (for tuba and piano, arrangement of work for tuba and band) Waltz and Interlude (for clarinet, flute and piano) Works for unaccompanied bassoon, English horn, and flute Colonial Legend Concord, 1987 A Copland Tribute Cowboy in Cuba Dance and Interlude English Christmas English Suite Fantasy on American Sailing Songs Fantasy on English Hunting Songs Festive Piece Finnish Rhapsody Green Domino Hebrides Suite (based on Airs from "Songs of the Hebrides", collected by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser The Peat-Fire Flame An Eriskay Love Lilt Milking Song (Hebridean Game Song) The Road to the Isles Holiday An Irish Rhapsody Kentucky 1800 Little English Suite The Leather Bottle Roving We Met The Vicar of Bray Little March Little Suite for Band Music for a Carnival Nocturne (solo harp and wind ensemble) Normandy Northwest Saga Norwegian Rhapsody Overture on a Short Theme Quiet Christmas A Scottish Rhapsody Songs for Christmas Spirit of '76 Three Carols for Christmas Three Sketches for Winds Trumpets Triumphant Tuba Rhapsody (solo tuba and band) Two Irish Songs Two Moods Overture, 1947 A Welsh Rhapsody A Westchester Overture Western Dance

Arrangements for band Candide Suite (by Leonard Bernstein) A Copland Portrait (works by Aaron Copland) Divertimento (by Leonard Bernstein) A Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21b (by Gustav Holst) Overture to Candide (by Leonard Bernstein) Slava! (by Leonard Bernstein)

Orchestrations for musicals Drat! The Cat!, 1965 Show Girl, additional orchestrations for the 1961 revival Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure, 1955 Phoenix ’55, 1955 Two’s Company, 1952-53 Lend an Ear, 1948-50