Tag: American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Composers Award Recording

CONCERTO DA CAMERA II for Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano (1987)

program note Concerto da Camera II is a work for six instruments which may be further grouped into three separate entities: clarinet, string quartet, and piano. In this combination, chosen by the work’s commissioning organizations (the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in conjunction with Mount Holyoke College), lies the work’s first challenge. While pairings…
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APPREHENSIONS for Voice, Clarinet, and Piano (1979)

PROGRAM NOTE Apprehensions was one of nine works commissioned by WFMT, Chicago’s Fine Arts Radio Station, as part of a series examining the 20th century art song. It was my initial intention to group together a number of poems, when I came across Apprehensions by Sylvia Plath. Written in the last year of her life,…
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