Contempo

Description

Angry Tango
Wistful Waltz
Revenge Blues
Unlucky Love
Southern Serendade
Risky Romance
Tap Dance
Melancholy Ballad
Dazzling Duo
Swan Song

Opus Number
94
Date
2008
Duration
25 minutes
Commissioned
A. Ramon Rivera
Dedication
A. Ramon Rivera
Instrumentation
Ten contemporary piano duets for intermediate pianists
Purchase Score
Premiere

January 30, 2010, Today’s Youth Perform Today’s Music, students of A. Ramon Rivera

Program notes

Contempo, Op. 94, is a set of ten piano duets (piano four hands) written for Angel Ramon’s NEC Preparatory School seminar. The work is notable for its use of the American vernacular and indigenous rhythms of American popular music. Contempo was written in 2008 and first performed at the annual NEC “Today’s Youth Plays Today’s Music” in January of 2009.

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