SKU: PR.11640110L
UPC: 680160682751.
The Essay for Strings was written in 1986 in memory of Glenn Hull, a colleague and the choir director at Norfolk State University during my early years there. His sudden passing was a shock, and I expressed my sadness in this work. It was premiered that year by the NSU orchestra at their Winter concert. In w000, after conductor-composer Coleridge Taylor Perkinson gave the work its second performance in Chicago (with the ensemble of the Center For Black Music Reasearch), I decided to add it to my catalog of orchestra works. The designation Essay refers to the fact that the piece is based on one idea (like a literary essay). In this case the musical idea (or motive) is made from the initials of my deceased friend, Glenn Hull (G and H in music are represented by the pitches G and B-natural). These two notes are sounded throughout the work in tribute to him.
SKU: HL.14074960
SKU: HL.14074946
SKU: BR.OB-4855-16
The autograph score of the present work is included amongst the 387 works from Johann Melchior Molter's pen preserved in the Baden State Library in Karlsruhe, and is the only Concerto per Violoncello concertato in the collection.
ISBN 9790004323106. 9 x 12 inches.
Since it was composed doubtlessly for the use of the Margrave of Baden Durlach's court, which was situated at the new residence in Karlsruhe from 1715 onwards, its subtitle of Little Karlsruhe Margrave-Concerto seems appropriate and justified.The autograph score of the present work is included amongst the 387 works from Johann Melchior Molter's pen preserved in the Baden State Library in Karlsruhe, and is the only Concerto per Violoncello concertato in the collection.
SKU: HL.14077536