GRUNDMAN works FOR BANDS

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

Works for concert or symphonic band

 American Folk Rhapsody No. 1

 American Folk Rhapsody No. 2
 American Folk Rhapsody No. 3
 American Folk Rhapsody No. 4
 An American Scene
 Black Knight
 The Blue And The Gray (Civil War Suite), 1961
 Burlesque
 Chessboard Suite[9]
 Classical Overture
 Concertante for Alto Sax and Band, 1973 [10]
 Colonial Legend
 Concord, 1987[11]
 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

1. The Peat-Fire Flame

2. An Eriskay Love Lilt
3. Milking Song (Hebridean Game Song)
4. The Road to the Isles

 Holiday
 An Irish Rhapsody
 Kentucky 1800
 Little English Suite

1. The Leather Bottle

2. Roving
3. We Met
4. The Vicar of Bray

 Little March
 Little Suite for Band
 Music for a Carnival
 Nocturne (solo harp and wind ensemble)
 Normandy
 Northwest Saga[12]
 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

He was born in Cleveland and graduated from Shaw High School in East Cleveland in

1930.[2] He then attended The Ohio State University, where he received a bachelor's degree
in Music 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.[1]
After finishing his degree he moved to New York. He then studied composition with Paul
Hindemith at the Berkshire Music Center, and served as a military musician in the United
States Coast Guard from 1942 to 1945.[3]
Among his many awards were an Honorary Membership in the Women Band Directors
International (1974),[4] the AWAPA award of the National Band Association (1982),
[5]
 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). [1]
In addition to his musical accomplishments he co-authored the 1974 New York
Times Crossword Puzzle Dictionary.[3]
Grundman was gay and in a long-term relationship. After his death in 1996, Grundman's
partner survived him for another sixteen years.[3] His papers and manuscripts are located in
the Music and Dance Library at Ohio State.