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Judith Tick (biographer of Ruth Crawford Seeger) asked me to write a piece in honor of Adrienne Fried Block (1921-2009), who was Amy Beach’s first great biographer. Judith pointed me to this passage from Amy Beach’s letters:“One of the sweetest of my recollections…was when I was ten… I met Edgar Rowland Sill, the poet. When he heard that I was the lucky possessor of absolute pitch, he asked me to go out with him in the spring mornings, and steal from the birds! Professor Sill, whose ear was true, had been collecting bird melodies. I shall always remember that first spring morning. The poet and I sat down behind a stone wall. It is a sweet memory of the kindlypoet, of California, of the spring flowers, of the unconscious birds…”Adrienne and Amy, the natural world they lived in, the professor, the artist, the historian they became, the tended garden of their lives. These are the ideas I have tried to explore in this piece. Some of the musical material is directly taken from Amy Beach’s famous piano piece A Hermit Thrush at Morn.
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ISBN 9781491137680. UPC: 680160691265.
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ISBN 9781491137604. UPC: 680160691050.
A major addition to the saxophone concerto repertoire, Zwilich’s three-movement work is inspired by her early experience playing in big bands, along with a love of rich textures and driving rhythms interrupted by striking silences. The centerpiece slow movement is scored for only the soloist and the ensemble’s sax section, with all other players tacet. A large-size full score, and a solo part with piano, are available separately.
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UPC: 680160691319.
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ISBN 9781491137598. UPC: 680160691043.
A major addition to the saxophone concerto repertoire, Zwilich’s three-movement work is inspired by her early experience playing in big bands, along with a love of rich textures and driving rhythms interrupted by striking silences. Originally scored for saxophone with wind ensemble, the piano reduction is thoroughly retextured for recital performances as a sax and piano duo.
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UPC: 680160690756.
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UPC: 680160667437. 11 x 17 inches.
I wrote this piece with a darker sonority and an emphasis on lyricism, qualities that I associate with the viola. In the first movement, titled Fantasia, the viola begins with a quiet and free cadenza, becoming more passionate until the woodwinds join in dialogue with the soloist. Gradually the rest of the orchestra enters, exploring ideas from the solo cadenza while introducing a new theme that reappears in the last movement. The second movement is a scherzo, mischievous in mood with the orchestra and viola trading barbed jokes. The antics are interrupted by a brass chorale with embellishment from the viola. The scherzo then resumes with prominent contributions from the bassoons. The last movement, titled Nocturne, plays with different kinds of music associated with the night. A sensual and romantic atmosphere gives way to something more menacing and ultimately violent. After a climax from the full orchestra, soft strings and solo viola lead us into the coda, taking an ambiguous idea from the first movement and transforming it into a lyrical and heartfelt prayer. The concerto ends with the solo viola ascending on the crest of an orchestral wave of sound.