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Percussion details: player 1: Bongo, Tambourine, 4 suspended Flower pots, 3 Suspended Cymbals (splash, medium, low), Claves, Log Drum (2 low pitches); Player 2: 2 Japanese temple bells, 4 Almglocken, Splash Cymbal, Maraca, Sistrum, Sandblocks, Conga/ Tumba, Pedal Bass Drum
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Flute, Bass Clarinet, Perc(2), Piano, Violin, Cello
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Whistling in the Dark, which I completed in February 1999, is a single-movement work about thirteen minutes long. I wrote it for the California E.A.R. Unit, and it is an homage to their virtuosity and internal sense of time. There is boppy, cheerful music in the piece that is suddenly transformed into much more aggressive, dissonant stuff. It is as if you were looking at two-faced mask with a smile on one side and a grimace on the other. (Now, I know that not all of you will agree which music represents the smile and which the grimace). The slow dance is melancholy rather than romantic. There is also fast music to which I imagined people dressed in 10's garb doing 'aerobics in hell.' The boppy music reappears as if nothing happened; it remains doggedly optimistic. yet there is something lurking just around the corner, just beneath the surface. There we were at the tail end of the 1990's; weren't most of us just whistling in the dark? --Donald Crockett
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Corrected pgs for FS, Pno added 12/17/09
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"...lovely piece of writing..." --Joseff Woodard, Los Angeles Times
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