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McKinley, William Thomas

William Thomas McKinley was a prolific composer, inspiring teacher, and gregarious raconteur whose career reflected a quintessentially American sort of musical eclecticism. Born in New Kensington, PA on December 9, 1938, he showed great musical facility from an early age, improvising at the piano by age five and playing professionally in nearby Pittsburgh from age eleven, blossoming under the tutelage of famed local pianist Johnny Costa. Active as a performer in Pittsburgh starting in his teens, the young McKinley worked with jazz luminaries such as Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and pop acts such as Neil Sedaka and Aretha Franklin. For college, however, he chose the route of composition. McKinley attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon) and studied with Nikolai Lopatnikoff, opening the door for a summer at the Tanglewood Institute and winning the BMI Prize in Composition in 1963. He later entered the graduate program at Yale to study with Mel Powell, where his interest in jazz fused with his classical studies in composition, coalescing into his first mature style. Upon leaving Yale, he taught for three years at the University of Chicago before moving on to the New England Conservatory in 1973. Splitting time between the composition and jazz departments, McKinley spent the next twenty years imbuing the importance of individual expression within a generation of young musicians. During this period, his music developed the more tonal grounding of his second mature period, anchored with professional success and accolades in in the form of an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous commissions including but not limited to the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Seattle Symphony, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Concurrently, his career as a jazz pianist found him working with a litany of major jazz artists including Roy Haynes, Miroslav Vitous, and Eddie Gomez, and writing crossover works for Gary Burton and Stan Getz. Following his retirement from teaching in 1994, McKinley produced recordings for the independent label Master Musicians Collective (MMC), continued writing for commissions, and would occasionally perform publicly at the piano. At the time of his death on January 3, 2015, he had over three hundred published works to his name and was generally regarded as an unflinching champion of the potential for jazz and music of the African diaspora to have a place within the milieu of classical art music.
16 Studies for Clarinet & Piano

16 Studies for Clarinet & Piano

Instrumentation: Clarinet & Piano Duration: 25' Composed: 2010 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97023010
Price: $53.00
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Again the Distant Bells for Vibraphone/Marimba & 7 Percussion

Again the Distant Bells
for Vibraphone/Marimba & 7 Percussion

Full Score Also Available - Set of Parts (cat. # 97020151) Instrumentation: Vibraphone/Marimba & 7 Percussion Duration: 16' Composed: 1981 Published...
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020150
Price: $56.00
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Again the Distant Bells for Vibraphone/Marimba & 7 Percussion

Again the Distant Bells
for Vibraphone/Marimba & 7 Percussion

Set of Parts Also Available - Full Score (cat# 97020150) Instrumentation: Vibraphone/Marimba & 7 Percussion Duration: 16' Composed: 1981 Published...
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020151
Price: $65.00
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Bagatelles and Finale for Solo Violin

Bagatelles and Finale
for Solo Violin

Instrumentation: Solo Violin Duration: 17' Composed: 1985 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing (BMI)
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020270
Price: $21.95
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Blue Jeans for Clarinet & Piano

Blue Jeans
for Clarinet & Piano

An Assortment of Blues and "Things" Instrumentation: Clarinet & Piano Duration: 9'30" Composed: 1991 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020320
Price: $29.95
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Blues Lament for Clarinet & Orchestra

Blues Lament
for Clarinet & Orchestra

Written for Richard Stoltzman Instrumentation: Clarinet & Orchestra Duration: 1'30" Composed: 1981 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing...
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020340
Price: $14.95
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Boston Overture for Orchestra

Boston Overture
for Orchestra

Instrumentation: 3,1 2,1 3,1 2,1; 5431; timp, 5 perc, pno/org, 2 hp; stgs Composed: 1986 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing Performance...
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020360
Price: $34.95
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Concert Music for Brass Quintet

Concert Music
for Brass Quintet

Instrumentation: Brass Quintet Duration: 13' Composed: 1985 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020590
Price: $60.00
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Concerto for Flute & String Orchestra

Concerto for Flute & String Orchestra

Instrumentation: Flute & String Orchestra Duration: ca. 30' Composed: 1986 Published by: Notevole Music Publishing Performance materials available on...
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97020710
Price: $65.00
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Elegy for Strings for Strings

Elegy for Strings
for Strings

Also known as "Largo for Strings", the Elegy for String Orchestra was composed in the spring of 2006 after McKinley learned of the passing of his...
Composer: McKinley, William Thomas
Catalog #: 97021110
Price: $15.00
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