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ID59AEA036-89B7-4D17-A230-AFBA2BCDFB14
TitlecodeR00320
Title NameChamber Concerto
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InstrumentationFlute, B-flat Clarinet, Percussion(1), Piano, Violin, Cello
CommissionCommissioned by California State University at Sacramento for the 1991 Festival of New American Music.
Dedication
Program NotesI called this work Chamber Concerto because it is intended as a kind of "Concerto for Orchestra" for six instruments. This is meant to be distinguished from a "Concerto Grosso" because my work has much less in common with a Baroque esthetic than it does with the Classical/ Romantic/ Modem world.

Formally, Chamber Concerto is a hybrid of a five-movement work (Fast - Slow - Scherzo/ Trio - Slow - Fast), a Rondo (ABACABA with a coda), and an arch form. Its five "movements" are played without pauses between them, and each is framed with a version of the opening melody (a kind of idÄe fixe which functions also as a ritornello). At the beginning it is a soaring cello tune, and at the close of the opening section, there is a dialogue between piano and marimba. At the close of the second section, it is delicately fragmented and gently passed among the instruments, but in the 'Trio" of the Scherzo it occurs sarcastically and brusquely in the highest registers Then at the reprise, it is soaring again, now in multiple octaves; and finally in the coda it is (mostly) a gentle flute melody (here for the first time the tune is altered, by being presented in retrograde). --David Froom
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Year Composed1991
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Duration15
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Date Created2008-10-31 00:00:00.000000
Date Updated2023-06-25 05:40:11
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Premier Performance Memo-Network For New Music/ Jan Krzywicki. 28, 30 Jan 00.
-European Premiere, Psappha/ John Carewe. 30 Oct 98.
-Peabody Camerata/ Gene Young. 27 Oct 96.
-Christopher Kendall. 08 Oct 95.
-Earplay/ Richard Festinger. 04 Apr 95.
-University of Southern California Contemporary Music Ensemble/ Donald Crockett. 28 Feb 95.
-Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards Concert. Oct 93.
-The New York New Music Ensemble. May 93.
-Twentieth Century Consort/ C. Kendall. Dec 92. Hirshorn Museum (Smithsonian).
-The New York New Music Ensemble. Sep 92.
-The New York New Music Ensemble. Nov 91. Monday Evening Concerts at the Los Angeles County Museum.
-<B>World Premiere, The New York New Music Ensemble. 06 Nov 91.
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AwardsWinner of the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, 1993.
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