Tag: WFMT

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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CHICAGO SKYLINE for Brass and Percussion (1991)

PROGRAM NOTES Chicago Skyline is a short celebratory piece commissioned by Chicago’s Fine Arts Radio Station WFMT for performance by the Chicago Symphony in December 1991, honoring the station’s fortieth anniversary. When I began composing the work, it seemed natural to select the brass and percussion section of the orchestra for a fanfare-like utterance. As…
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