Mandel Hall (Chicago) | Shulamit Ran

DOUBLE VISION for Two Quintets and Piano (1976)

PROGRAM NOTES Double Vision for two quintets and piano is one of several works of mine written in the 1970s (e.g. Ensembles for 17, Concerto Piece for Piano and Orchestra) the formal aspect of which is determined to a considerable extent by the choice of instrumental forces. Here, the participating bodies—a woodwind quintet (with two…
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STRING QUARTET NO. 2 “VISTAS” (1988–89)

PROGRAM NOTE My second string quartet, “Vistas,” is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement. While the four movements’ “proper” names — Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione;…
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A PRAYER for five players (1982)

A PRAYER is a short work written in honor of the seventy-fifth birthday of the late Paul Fromm, the great Chicago-based patron of 20th century music, as part of a “bouquet of compositions” especially composed for the occasion and presented in a concert commemorating the event on January 22, 1982, by the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, Ralph Shapey, music director.

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DOUBLE VISION for Two Quintets and Piano (1976)

STRING QUARTET NO. 2 “VISTAS” (1988–89)

A PRAYER for five players (1982)