What Goes Around Comes Around

Opus Number
38
Date
1992, Boston
Duration
6 minutes
Commissioned
Bennington Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East
Recording
tape at Boston Conservatory
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Premiere

Brenda Levy, flute, David Halpert, clarinet, James Lewin, viola, Edward Bowe, oboe, Robert Secombe, piano, Frank Werber, cello, Larry Bell, conductor, August 1, 1992, Bennington College Chamber Music Conference, Bennington, Vermont

Subsequent performances

20th-Century Music Ensemble, December 9, 1994, The Boston Conservatory: Ellen Rakatansky, flute, Tanya Wills, oboe, Kenji Kikuchi, clarinet, Jan Bofinger, viola, Galizitine Trussell-Cullen, cello, Scott Ethier, piano, Yoichi Udagawa, conductor.

Program notes

Bell’s What Goes Around Comes Aroundwas commissioned in 1992 by the Bennington College Chamber Music Festival and Composers Forum of the East, where Bell was Composer-in-Residence and conducted the premiere. Written for specific participants of the Festival, it is a streamlined version of the last movement of the composer’s Second Symphony. The work also involves an improvisation on the Southern folk hymn “Idumea.” The title refers to a common figure of speech, suggested here by a tone of ominous warning. It begins and ends with a round.

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