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Music for an Occasion (Chamber)

for brass, piano and percussion (1992; rev. 2003)


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Description

Premiere

4 August 1993
Contemporary Ensemble / George Tsontakis, director
Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, CO

Instrumentation

4 Hns, 3 Tpts in C, 3 Trbs, Tuba; Pn; 3 Perc [Timp/T-Tam, Glock 1, Glock 2]

Publisher

Biscardi Music Press No. B48-92-1
Distribution: Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.

Program Notes

This work, in three brief sections, explores an insistent memory (horn solo), which is interrupted by a disturbing trumpet "fanfare," and from which hopefulness emerges (muted trumpets).