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Little Concerto
Subtitle: For Six Players
General Info
Year: 1990 / 2012
Duration: c. 9:10
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maslanka Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $39.00; (digital) - $24.00
Movements
1. First – 2:05
2. Second – 3:55
3. Third – 2:20
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute
Oboe/English Horn
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This music was written for talented amateurs in attendance at a summer music conference. The Concerto is very much in a Neoclassic mode. It is in three movements. The fast outer movements are whimsical and tongue-in-cheek. The slow middle movement unfolds soulful melodies.
- Program Note from publisher
In 1990 I was a guest composer for the Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College in Vermont. I was asked to write a piece to be prepared and performed by six amateur players. This led to the idea of a small concerto that would expose them all in a more or less equal way. The Baroque concerto grosso model comes closest to what I have done. My piece has three movements, each calling for a pair of soloists, with the others in more or less supportive roles. The lead instruments in the first movement are Violin and Bassoon, the second Oboe and Piano, and in the third, Flute and Clarinet.
The musical influences are fairly clear. The first movement owes a debt to Stravinsky, the second to Poulenc -- a longtime favorite -- and third to Brahms, with an overlay of my Polish heritage.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Wind Ensemble (Cory Near, conductor) – 3 December 2017
- Florida International University (Miami) Wind Ensemble (Brenton F. Alston, conductor) – 22 November 2017
- West Texas A&M University (Canyon) (Derek Harris, conductor) – 9 November 2014
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Alex and the Phantom Band (2002/2015)
- Angel of Mercy (2015)
- California (2016)
- A Child's Garden of Dreams (1981)
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (1999)
- Concerto for Marimba and Band (1990)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2015)
- Concerto for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (1979)
- Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble (2012)
- Concerto No 2 for Piano, Winds, and Percussion (2002)
- Concerto No 3 for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2016)
- Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble (2007)
- Crown of Thorns (1991)
- Desert Roads (2005)
- Fanfare-Variations on the Chorale Melody "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall). See: Recitation Book
- First Light (2016)
- Four Pieces for Band (1980)
- Give Us This Day (2005)
- Golden Light (1990)
- Heart Songs (2001)
- Hell's Gate (1997)
- Hohner (1999)
- Hosannas (2015)
- Husa (2016)
- Hymn for World Peace (2014)
- Illumination (2013)
- In Memoriam (1990)
- Laudamus Te (1995)
- Letter to Martin (2015)
- Liberation (2012)
- Little Concerto (1990)
- Mass (1995/2005)
- Montana Music: Chorale Variations (1993)
- Morning Star (1997)
- Mother Earth (2008)
- Mountain Roads (1997)
- On This Bright Morning (2013)
- Peace (2012)
- Prelude on a Gregorian Tune (1981)
- Procession of the Academics (2008)
- Quintet for Winds Number 2
- Recitation Book (2006)
- Remember Me (2013)
- Requiem (2013)
- Rollo Takes a Walk (1980)
- Saint Francis (2015)
- Sea Dreams (1998)
- The Seeker (2016)
- Song at the End of Time
- Songs for the Coming Day (2012)
- Song Book (2001)
- Symphony No. 2 (1987)
- Symphony No. 3 (1991/2007)
- Symphony No. 4 (1993)
- Symphony No. 5 (2000)
- Symphony No. 6 (2004)
- Symphony No 7 (2004)
- Symphony No 8 (2008)
- Symphony No. 9 (2011)
- Symphony No. 10 (2018)
- Tears (1994)
- Testament (2001)
- Traveler (2003)
- A Tuning Piece: Songs of Fall and Winter (1995)
- ufo dreams (1999)
- Unending Stream of Life (2007)
- Variants on a Hymn Tune (1995)
Resources
- David Maslanka website Accessed 21 November 2017
- Maslanka, D. (2012). Little Concerto: For Six Players [score]. Maslanka Press: New York.
- Perusal score