| ID | C2AB8AAA-704C-44FC-ABD4-0226F2046E00 |
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| Titlecode | X508001 |
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| Title Name | The Rose of the Winds for String Octet |
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| Marketing Copy | A journey through a starkly beautiful desert landscape. Commissioned for the 15th Anniversary Season of Music from Angel Fire and recorded by Iris Chamber Orchestra (Naxos). |
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| Instrumentation | 4 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Celli |
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| Commission | Commissioned for the 15th Anniversary Season of Music from Angel Fire |
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| Dedication | (not set) |
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| Program Notes | The Rose of the Winds was composed in anticipation of my first visit to the Taos region of New Mexico, where I was invited to be Composer-in-residence for the 1998 Music from Angel Fire chamber music festival. I even bought a beautiful book of photographs of the area and kept it propped open to a few favorites, in particular a wonderful shot of a single desert flower perched at the top of a dune against a bright blue sky. So the piece unfolds as a kind of imagined journey in that landscape, starting out with an evocation of its quiet spaciousness, and then moving through more animated phases evoking various sounds of nature, insects, birds, wind and rain, before settling down at the end to more quiet, inward singing and the tolling of bells. |
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| Title Brand | 2 |
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| Year Composed | 1998 |
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| Copyright Number | (not set) |
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| Copyright Year | (not set) |
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| Duration | 13 |
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| Ensemble Size | 8 |
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| Date Created | 2008-10-31 20:32:15.000000 |
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| Date Updated | 2025-09-30 20:32:15 |
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| Inhouse Note | 5 yr term agreement. |
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| Bsc Code | (not set) |
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| Text Author | (not set) |
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| Premier Performance Memo | (not set) |
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| Recording Credits | Recorded by Iris Chamber Orchestra, Naxos (2003). |
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| Review | (not set) |
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| Awards | (not set) |
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| Title Category | 10 |
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| Title Movements | (not set) |
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| Title Grade | (not set) |
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| Set Series ID | (not set) |
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| Title Instrument Category Text | String Duo & Ensemble |
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| Title Sub Category Text | (not set) |
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| Title Sub Category | 54 |
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| Title Instrument Header | 63 |
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| Title Grade Text | (not set) |
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| Clean Url | the-rose-of-the-winds-for-string-octet-x508001 |
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