Electrons Dancing

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Anthony O'Toole

Anthony O'Toole


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General Info

Year: 2018
Duration: c. 3:05
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Anthony O'Toole Music
Cost: Score and Parts - $90.00


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Errata

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Program Notes

Commissioned by a consortium of 37 ensembles around the world, this concert opener paints a music picture of the microscopic world of the atom and the entrancing, almost choreographic, movement of its electrons.

- Program Note from publisher


Ions with a negative charge when examined show an almost choreographed dancing frenzy of electrons. This piece illustrates musically what I believe this would sound like, based on only two melodic/rhythmic motives; the first the ostinato on the four pitches (Do - Re - Fi - Sol) and the scalar line that is heard first as an interjection, then as the dominant melodic idea.

- Program Note by composer


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Performances

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  • Sacramento (Calif.) State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Matthew Morse, conductor) – 8 May 2019
  • Kansas State University (Manhattan) Wind Ensemble (Michael Turner, conductor) – 1 May 2019
  • Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Wind Ensemble (C. Kevin Bowen, conductor) – 29 April 2019
  • Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Va.) Wind Ensemble (Christopher Dobbins, conductor) – 1 April 2019
  • Sacramento (Calif.) Symphonic Winds (Tim Smith, conductor) – 10 March 2019


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