| ID | FC8C8C99-5CD0-4134-971B-34772035390A |
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| Titlecode | R01059 |
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| Title Name | Whistling in the Dark |
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| Marketing Copy | 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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| Instrumentation | Flute, Bass Clarinet, Perc(2), Piano, Violin, Cello |
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| Commission | (not set) |
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| Dedication | (not set) |
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| Program Notes | 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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| Title Brand | 2 |
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| Year Composed | 1999 |
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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 | 7 |
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| Date Created | 2008-10-31 20:31:02.000000 |
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| Date Updated | 2025-09-30 20:31:02 |
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| Inhouse Note | Corrected pgs for FS, Pno added 12/17/09 |
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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 | (not set) |
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| Review | "...lovely piece of writing..." --Joseff Woodard, Los Angeles Times |
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| Awards | (not set) |
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| Title Category | 2 |
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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 | Septet |
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| Title Sub Category Text | (not set) |
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| Title Sub Category | -1 |
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| Title Instrument Header | 22 |
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| Title Grade Text | (not set) |
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| Clean Url | whistling-in-the-dark-r01059 |
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