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Recursive Variations
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General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 9:25
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Uroboros Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $600.00; (digital) - $300.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
Piano/Harp
Timpani
Percussion
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A work that explores both intimate chamber music and full band with a wide variety of emotional explorations.
- Program Note from publisher
Recursive Variations was commissioned by a consortium of bands spearheaded by Maestro Brenton Alston of Florida International Uiversity. The work is just over nine minutes in length and is a set of variations based on a theme from a piano work I composed in the 1990s for Maru Holloway. The work was also inspired by the collage works of visual artist Sherri Tan (www.sherritan.com) which I had just discovered in the '90s.
Recursive Variations explores a wide range of emotions and utilizes the wind ensemble in both chamber and full-scale setting. Starting out as an intimate duet, it moves through a journey of various passions and emotions, eventually evolving into a strong return of the opening materials with full ensemble. To quote from T.S. Eliot from his Four Quartets: “...We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time...”
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Florida International University (Miami) Wind Ensemble (Brenton F. Alston, conductor) – 22 November 2017 Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band (2010/2012)
- Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble (1997)
- Concerto for Trumpet (2003)
- Faust Concerto (2016)
- Parralax (2011)
- Recursive Variations (2017)
- Sapphire Overture
- Symphony No. 3 (2013)
Resources
- Thomas Sleeper, personal correspondence, november 2017
- Thomas Sleeper website Accessed 21 November 2017