The Einstein Slide for chamber orchestra (2012)
(addendum to Collective Uncommon)
- Winner of The 2017-2018 American Prize in Composition--orchestra, professional division
- Commissioned and premiered by Alarm Will Sound, Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, Columbia, MO, 2012
- 8 minutes in duration
- Instrumentation: 111dEb1, 1110, 2 perc, pno, 1211
Collective Uncommon: Seven Orchestral Studies on Medical Oddities (2010, revised 2012)Gallery One: Three Lyric Specimens
I. Megacolon (Mensuration Canon) II. The Progressive Ossification of Harry Eastlack (Variations on a Descending Bass) III. The Human Horn Growing on the Forehead of Madame Dimanche (Study on a Unison) Gallery Two IV. The Screaming Soap Lady (Palindrome) Gallery Three: Three Dance Specimens V. Dance of the Siamese Twins: Chang and Eng Bunker (Polyrhythmic Study) VI. The Einstein Slide (Chamber Concerto) VII. The Shrunken Heads Fight for Dr. Hyrtl’s Skull Collection (Fantasy-Passacaglia)
Duration: 25 minutes Instrumentation: 2+picc, 2, 2+Eb+bass, 2+contra - 4, 3, 3, 1, timp, 3 perc, pno, hp, str Collective Uncommon published in nomus21
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Review: Minnesota Orchestra and new composers make beautiful music - sometimesBy Rob Hubbard
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