6ACB7153-4C20-4AC4-B299-C90C07626EE5
| ID | 6ACB7153-4C20-4AC4-B299-C90C07626EE5 |
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| Titlecode | R00053 |
| Title Name | Whispers of Yesterday |
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| Instrumentation | Flute (d Piccolo), Oboe (d English Horn), B-flat Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Crotales (played by Flute) |
| Commission | Commissioned by the Cimarron Wind Quintet. |
| Dedication | |
| Program Notes | Whispers ofYesterday is about memory - personal and musical. The musical memories are easy to describe. I conceived of a work in which the structure was always present, but never obvious. Small motifs are constantly recurring, but never in the same semantics or syntax of previous occurrences. For example: the opening upward melodic sweep in the flute and oboe returns at times as simultaneous senorities (chords) or altered melodies, which are semantic changes; and these various manifestations of this opening gesture recur, juxtaposed with different materials at each occurrence, which are syntactical changes. The figure which accompanies this opening sweep - the ostinato in the clarinet and horn, is frequently present, again in various semantic and syntactical manifestations. This ostinato is, itself, merely an echo of the curcial interval (3rd) of the opening sweep. Thus: the opening sweep is present as itself and i its echo ("memory", or "whispered") form simultaneously. Present and past occur at the same moment. The 17 distinct sections in the work consistently alternate between regular meters and free notation (where the performers must cue from one another rather than from an externally imposed meter). What was accompaniment in one section may return as an altered main idea in a future section. Ideas are left incomplete, are formed anew, or change positions. There are extended solos for the English horn and clarinet midway through, and chordal coda completes the piece. --the personal memories? From the opening sweep of Whispers of Yesterday, which refers to the beginning of my work titled The Garden through references to my String Quartet, and Symphony No. 1, I have made a kind of emotional pilgrimage back to the feelings and experiences of those earlier works. It's a backward glance at what was...what I enjoyed had meaning. And now - the next step. --Edward Applebaum |
| Title Brand | 2 |
| Year Composed | 1988 |
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| Duration | 13 |
| Ensemble Size | (not set) |
| Date Created | 2008-10-31 00:00:00.000000 |
| Date Updated | 2023-06-25 05:30:59 |
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| Premier Performance Memo | -Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. 15 Jun 91. Australian Premiere. -Barbara Kremer, flute; Lori Weaver, oboe; Micholas Morrison, clarinet; John Hunt, bassoon; Mary Hunt, horn. 18 Jan 91. -Bay Chamber Orchestra. 11, 12 Mar 89. -World Premiere, Cimarron Wind Quintet. 22 Feb 89. |
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| Title Instrument Category Text | Undefined |
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