Purple Martins

Be Near Me

Invitation to Love

To a Friend

Prairie Spring

Fire & Ice

Six Short Pieces for Solo Bassoon

The Tree

Festival Triumph

A Clearing in the Distance

One Thousand Dark Threads on Wet Pavement

Sunlight on Quaking Aspen

Three Miniatures for Solo Piano

Fire & Ice

Invitation to Love

Purple Martins

Contemplating a Mountain with Love

La Bergere Muette

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New CDs

Flutist Iwona Glinka has released three new CDs featuring a Bartholomew work on each: Gusts & Zephers on the CD Daleth, In Seaspray, Barefoot, on the CD Zayin, and Canopy on the CD Heth.

Stargazing from the Ramparts on the Houston Brass Quintet CD New Horizons.

Other CDs featuring my music.

Choral Scores now available from J.W. Pepper

Sheet music for all of Greg Bartholomew's choral works are now available from J.W. Pepper. You may preview the scores and listen to recordings directly on the J.W. Pepper website.

All choral scores are also available from Sheet Music Plus, for those who prefer that online retailer.

New Choral Commission

Purple Martins

Constellation Men's Ensemble commissioned a new setting for men's chorus of the poem Purple Martins by Carl Sandburg for their NOVA 8 : chicago seasons program in June 2025. There were three performances of the program at Trinity United Methodist Church, Humboldt Park Boathouse, and Lincoln Park Conservatory.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet. Much of his work concerned Chicago, where he worked as a reporter. He earned three Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry and for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. His poem Purple Martins first appeared in a collection titled Smoke and Steel, published in 1920.

Purple Martins is a Project Encore selection. A new score video is now available on YouTube.

The Spanish-language blog, Planeta Viola, written by Carlos Rodríguez Ridaura, featured a terrific commentary on In the Language of Meditation.