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Next Entries »Do Not Go Gentle
Tuesday, September 15th, 1992Two Pianos, 3 Movements (1993, minor revisions later) ca. 13’
Premiered by Amy & Sara Hamann at the University of Minnesota.
Program Note:
Written as a memorial for my mother, Constance Mary Barrett, who had recently died from lung cancer three months shy of her fiftieth birthday. The sonata takes its title from a poem by Dylan Thomas. Do Not Go Gentle Sonata was premiered by Amy and Sara Hamann on November 15, 1993 at Ferguson Recital Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Winner of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers in 1994.
Jazz Suite (Clarinet & Piano)
Saturday, February 1st, 1992Bb Clarinet and Piano, 3 movements, (1992) ca. 8′
Premiered by Benjamin Coleman, Clarinet & Kee Poh Lim at Queens College, 1992.
Listen to the 2nd Movement, performed by Jen Gerth and Tracy Bradshaw:
jazzsuiteii.mp3
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Program Note:
Next Entries »I wrote this piece for my friends Ben Coleman & Kee Poh Lim while we were students at Queens College, and it’s one of the few pieces from my student days that I’m still proud to have in my catalogue. It has been performed in several U.S. venues, but also in Canada and Europe. I began the piece as part of a jazz composition class that I was taking with the famous saxophonist and composer, Jimmy Heath. I was only a sophomore, and the rest of the class were all graduate students who knew the vocabularly of jazz forwards and backwards. I spent much of the semester playing catch-up, but got the basics down by the end.