Continuum for orchestra

Description

East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolin

Opus Number
3
Date
1971
Instrumentation
picc-1-1-English hn-1-bass clarinet-bassoon-contrabassoon; 1-2-1-1; 2 perc, hp, pf; strings
Duration
8 minutes
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Premiere

Johnson, Vermont, Composers’ Conference, The Vermont Symphony, Efrain Guigui, conductor, August 1973

Subsequent performances

RAI Orchestra of Rome, Massimo Pradella, conducting, November 1984; orchestral reading, The Juilliard Orchestra, 1980, Richard Fletcher, conductor

Program notes

The piece was written in 1971 when the composer was a sophomore at East Carolina University and a student of Gregory Kosteck. The title of the single-movement work refers to the gradual change of color from the lowest, darkest instruments that gradually moves to the higher and clearer sonorities in the highest-pitched percussion at the conclusion of the work. Even though the color passes from the dark to the light, the structure of the piece is distinguished principally by the discontinuity of the development.

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