Tag: American Composers Orchestra

CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA (1986)

PROGRAM NOTE [This program note was written for the work’s premiere performance in 1987.] CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA is the latest in an ongoing series of compositions began in the mid 1970’s in which an exploration, at least on one level, of the relationship between a given work’s formal/dramatic essence and its chosen instrumentation is a…
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SUPPLICATIONS for Chorus and Orchestra (2002)

PROGRAM NOTES SUPPLICATIONS was composed in response to a commission made in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel of a work for chorus and orchestra that would center around texts from the Book of Psalms. To me, one of the striking elements in the Psalms (Tehillim), in addition…
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