Tag: American Composers Orchestra

CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA (1986)

[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 significant compositional…
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SUPPLICATIONS for Chorus and Orchestra (2002)

PROGRAM NOTES SUPPLICATIONS is a work I consider to be the seed of a large-scale composition I envision tackling at some future point which would posit the eternal human quest for faith with the challenges of life’s often inexplicably cruel realities. Such a work would draw on multiple sources for its texts, juxtaposing quotes from…
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