PROGRAM NOTE For many years the clarinet has played a special role in my music, its huge range of possibilities and powerful dramatic potential allowing for fresh explorations in a variety of contexts, its “soul” having been intertwined with important aspects of my compositional “voice.” In a single movement, my Clarinet Concerto can be heard…
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PROGRAM NOTE My Concerto for Violin and Orchestra is a work of some 30 minutes cast in three movements. Each movement explores certain facets of the violin’s complex personality, or “soul.” The classically proportioned first movement, taken as a whole, is rather mercurial in character, ranging the gamut from the lyrical and deeply expressive to…
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PROGRAM NOTE My having been commissioned by the National Flute Association for a flute concerto in celebration of that organization’s year 2000 convention was, for me, a much-relished opportunity to further explore the direction I found myself pursuing in two earlier compositions — EAST WIND for solo flute (1987), and MIRAGE for five instrument (1991)…
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PROGRAM NOTE [The following note was written in 1991 for the program book of the performances by the Cleveland Orchestra with pianist Alan Feinberg and Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor.] In retrospect, twenty-one years later, it seems that 1960’s and 1970’s bashing has become a favorite past time activity for a great many composers at this…
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