Thanks to the generosity of New
Hampshire's chapter of Music Teacher's National Association, a piece
of mine will be premiered on Saturday, October 6th at 3:30
PM at Keene State College. I was selected as the commisioned composer
of the year by NHMTA. I've written a trio for flute, saxophone and
piano. Mike Sakash and Julia Hendrickson will be performing with me.
We hope to record the piece and perform it in the Conway area
sometime in the next year, so if you can't make it to Keene, you
still may have a chance to hear it performed.
The piece is largely tonal, but it
employs some stealthy elements of bitonality. The result is much more
consonant than Kodaly's duo for violin and viola, but much more spicy
than Robert Schumann's chamber works (to whom the piece owes a lot of
inspiration.). Germaine Tailleferre and Bohuslav Martinu, two
composer's whose work I've studied over the last couple of years,
also influenced this work.
There are four movements, a romantic
adagio, a jolly romp through the statements and developments of three
themes, a fugue based on computational trees, and a motile allegro
with a lyrical melody. I think the work is quite listenable despite
my indulgence of academic compositional techniques.
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