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Robert Kapilow has had an extraordinary career as a conductor, composer, pianist and commentator. As a composer, Kapilow has written over 15 commissioned works, including the first musical setting of a Dr. Seuss work, Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. It has since achieved great popularity in the children's theater world, prompting Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer to name it the most popular children's piece since Peter and the Wolf. Kapilow also composes "city" pieces, involving entire communities in the process of conceiving and creating a new piece of music. Other compositions include works for solo instrumentalists, duets, string quartet, chorus, wind ensemble, and symphony orchestra. Kapilow is also one of America's most persuasive commentators on classical music. He has appeared on five programs for Public Television, and has a regular nationwide program, "What Makes it Great?" on National Public Radio's Performance Today. He has run family programs for Boston's Fleet Bank Celebrity Series, Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series, the 92nd Street Y, Orange County Performing Arts Center, and the Chamber Music Society of Kansas City. As a conductor, Kapilow has led orchestras throughout the United States including the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, and Minnesota Orchestra, performances of a Lukas Foss opera, and leading Robert X. Rodríguez's Frida for the opening of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the American Repertory Theatre. Additional information on Robert Kapilow can be found at http://www.schirmer.com/composers/kapilow/bio.html

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Green eggs and ham	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble		00:18:00
Many moons	Opera/Theater		00:00:00
Summer Sun, Winter Moon	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2004	00:29:00
03 (This New, Immense, Unbounded World)	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2002	00:20:00
And Furthermore They Bite	Orchestra	2000	00:15:00
Union Station	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2000	00:30:00
Play Ball! (Casey at the Bat)	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2000	00:20:00
New Year’s Eve (from “Union Station”)	Orchestra	2000	00:02:30
Elijah’s Angel	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1998	00:23:00
I Want to be a Superhero	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1998	00:12:00
Bridgepiece	Orchestra	1997	00:07:00
Chris Van Allsburg's Polar Express	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1997	00:22:00
Many Moons	Opera/Theater	1997	01:10:00
City Piece: Shuttlecocks	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:20:00
Gertrude McFuzz	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1995	00:16:00
You and Hugh	Orchestra	1994	00:22:00
Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham	Orchestra	1992	00:18:00	Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham
Sing God: In Memoriam Leonard Bernstein	Orchestra	1992	00:18:00
Celestial Navigation	Keyboard	1991	00:04:00
Diversions	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1987	00:02:00
Light Thickens	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1987	00:05:00
Now is the Tyme of Christmas	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1987	00:02:00
Piano Music	Keyboard	1986	00:06:00
Movement	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1986	00:13:00
Hecate	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1986	00:05:00
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1986	00:07:00
In Excelsis Gloria	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1985	00:03:00
Flute Music	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1985	00:10:00
Mystic Trumpeter	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1985	00:08:00

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