Triptych

From Wind Repertory Project
Peter Child

Peter Child


This article is a stub. If you can help add information to it,
please join the WRP and visit the FAQ (left sidebar) for information.


General Info

Year: 2007
Duration: c. 11:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Peter Child
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Instrumentation

(Needed - please join the WRP if you can help.)


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Peter Child, British-born composer who is a professor at MIT, was justifiably confident in the group's ability to handle his new piece, Triptych, a commission honoring NEC's retired director Frank Battisti. This attractive work is a natural for acceptance by other groups. The composer mentioned its three sections roughly equal in length, the first more hard-edged and even threatening with its recurrent loud tritone-based chords and ponderous bass beat (the band tuba, in 18-foot B flat, is a much heavier instrument than the orchestral F tuba, but the ensemble needs it to make up for the absence of low strings). The second section is more playful and with a stronger major-key basis, with good deal of well-highlighted solo writing (including some contrasting snarls in flutter-tongued low trombones - remember no. 1 of Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16). It merges easily into the final section, which features a long treble ostinato of five descending notes (I was reminded of the end of the "Saturn" movement of The Planets by Gustav Holst ...) with some elegant timbral contrasts in harp and glockenspiel, which are left alone at the end.

- Program Note by Mark DeVoto, Boston Music Inelligencer


Co-commissioned by the wind ensembles of Emory University, MIT, New England Conservatory, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University.

- Program Note from composer's MIT page


Media


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

  • Boston (Mass.) University Wind Ensemble (David Martins, conductor) – 28 February 2019


Works for Winds by This Composer


Resources