Second Percussion Symphony

Year

2019

Duration

24:00

Composed

(n/a) - 6/9/2019

Dedication

Louisa Sarofim

PROGRAM NOTE:

My first Percussion Symphony (1976) is  a large affair of some forty minutes, requiring 24 players.  In contemplating my Second, some 45 years later, I sought to condense the compositional thought behind it, as well as to reduce the cast of characters 14.  And, while the first symphony is in three large movements interspersed with two "entr'actes" -- two different transcriptions of an early work of Dufay --  the Second, completed this past spring, is in one continuous movement of 24 minutes.
The instrumental ensemble, as with all my percussion works, is heavily pitch-centered, as is required by the fundamentally motivic nature of the writing.
The work is dedicated, with my gratitude, to my dear friend Louisa Sarofim.
--CW