Contrasting Periods :: Persistent Echoes :: April

Apr

Filed Under Composition on Tuesday, April 4th 2006

Tonight is the official premiere of my latest work, a seven minute piece for brass quintet titled Persistent Echoes. I wrote the piece at the request of The Smoky Mountain Brass, the faculty quintet here at Western and they will be taking it on their tour of the United Kingdom in May.

I’m pretty happy with the way the work turned out, though the proof will be in the performance tonight. I’ve had several works that I hated when I finished them that turned out great, and several that I thought were going to be more effective turn out to be pieces that I’ve grown to dislike as time has passed. I’d like to believe that I am getting a better handle on this as I grow older, but I think there will always be some small doubt in my mind about every piece before it’s premiered, and that’s probably a very good thing.

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