Variations
Larry Bell, pianist, Appalachian State University Contemporary Music Festival, May 1974
Larry Bell, May 1974, Boone, NC; May 1980, Paul Hall, Juilliard; March 31, 1983, American Academy in Rome; April 18, 1982, and February 29, 1984, at The Boston Conservatory
“Variations” for piano was written for the composer to play and completed at Appalachian State University in the spring of 1974. Much of this work shows the influence of Dallapiccola’s “Quaderno Musicale di Anna Libera” in its preoccupation with contrapuntal techniques. Larry Bell first performed it at Appalachian’s Contemporary Music Festival in May 1974 and it won a BMI Student Composers Award that same season.
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