Fredonia Press

 

 

Important works and performances include:

Piano Concerto I, opus 9

Pulitzer Prize Winner and Grammy Award Nominee

 

The Trilogy of Christmas operas

   Erode the Greate

   Novellis, Novellis

   The Shephardes Playe

Performed at the Washington Cathedral

 

Birds of Paradise (Nightwings)

The Joffrey Ballet

 

Overture From Sea to Shining Sea, opus 30
Commissioned for President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Concert

 

 

President and Mrs. Kennedy discussing the score at the Inaugural Concert with Howard Mitchell (L), conductor of The National Symphony, and the composer, John LaMontaine (R).

 


Wilderness Journal, after Thoreau

Commissioned for the opening of Kennedy Center and dedication of the Filene Organ

 

Be Glad Then America

Documentary opera commissioned by Penn State University for the American Bicentennial

 

We Can Get Along

Composed together with African-American composer, Azell Taylor

 

String Quartet

The Rheta Sosland Prize for Chamber Music

Piano Concertos I,II,III and IV

Songs of The Rose of Sharon

Song of Songs: an Opera for Solo Voice and Orchastra

Postal Address: 3947 Fredonia Drive, Hollywood, CA 90068

EMAIL: johnlamontaine@yahoo.com