Music for Five
Instrumentation:
Oboe
Clarinet in Bb
Alto Saxophone
Bass Clarinet in Bb
Bassoon
Premiered 2/7/24 at Berklee College of Music by Coleton Morgan, oboe; Alainna Pack, clarinet; Keaton Shaw, saxophone; Andrew Coleman, bass clarinet; and Haoyu “Max” Li, bassoon.
Duration: 4 minutes
Excerpt 1 (Atlantic Reed Consort):
Excerpt 2 (Coleton Morgan, oboe; Alainna Pack, clarinet; Keaton Shaw, saxophone; Andrew Coleman, bass clarinet; and Haoyu “Max” Li, bassoon)
A piece about the joy of chamber music. It is tightly knit and highly contrapuntal, with all players equally sharing the thematic material. Much of the piece uses Bach-style motivic development and fugue, but in a contemporary harmonic language.
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