Wind Rose
From Wind Repertory Project
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General Info
Year: 2008
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: VII (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score & Parts - Rental
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II-III
Alto Flute I-II
Oboe I-II-III
English Horn I-II
Bassoon I-II-III
Contrabassoon
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Contrabass Clarinet
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
When Ellen Highstein, Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, asked me to write a piece to be premiered during their festival of my music at Tanglewood in the summer of 2008, I thought it would be interesting to write a piece for strings that depended only on density of textures with no linear material, no change of color or dynamics, with this in mind, I wrote Sound Fields. When my friend, the composer/conductor Oliver Knussen heard this first performance at Tanglewood, where he was conducting many of my pieces that summer, he suggested that I write a companion piece for winds. This led to Wind Rose, which adds changes of color. The piece is dedicated to Oliver Knussen. I started writing it on July 28, 2008 and finished it on August 8, 2008.
Program Note by Elliott Carter
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Recent Performances
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- BBC Symphony Orchestra (Oliver Knussen, Conductor) - 16 December 2008 - World Premiere
- New York Woodwind Quintet (Charles Neidich, Conductor) - 11 February 2010 - US Premiere
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