men (2001) 45'
tbn solo, eh, bcl, bar sax, 2 pf, 2 perc, va, vc, db; all amplified
Stadthaus Ulm for European Music Project
tbn solo, eh, bcl, bar sax, 2 pf, 2 perc, va, vc, db; all amplified
Stadthaus Ulm for European Music Project
narr, tuba solo, fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, egtr, pf/syn, perc, va, vc, db
The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
I became a composer because, when I was nine years old, I saw a movie of Leonard Bernstein conducting Shostakovich’s First Symphony with the New York Philharmonic. I fell in love immediately with the music of Shostakovich, with the idea of being a composer, with the orchestra itself. I was so in love with Shostakovich, in fact, that I immersed myself in his music, and then all Russian music, then I studied the Russian language in school, I read all the Russian literature I could find, and I spent the summer of 1975 studying in the Soviet Union…
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