Tag: Philadelphia Music Project

“SONG AND DANCE” Duo for Saxophone (soprano and alto) and mallet percussion (2007)

PROGRAM NOTE “Song and Dance” began its life as a nascent melody in the late eighties, employing a similar motivic cell as did three of my works written over a period of several years—East Wind, String Quartet No. 2 (Vistas), and Mirage. At the core of these three works is the simplest of melodic kernels:…
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MOON SONGS – A Song Cycle in Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (doubling Piccolo), Cello, and Piano (2011)

PROGRAM NOTE The invitation from flute virtuoso Mimi Stillman to compose a work for her Dolce Suono Ensemble’s Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series that could serve as an homage as well as a companion piece to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, one of the 20th-century’s seminal compositions, was as challenging as it was intriguing. It would seem almost…
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