Contemporary Classics April 10, 2018 Interview with Composer William Price
Stephen David Beck is most known for his electoacoustic music but here we have a work for Trumpet and Organ - Eine Kleine Yiddishe Spass. Keith Benjamin, Trumpet, Melody Turnquist Steed, Organ. Performed at the Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kansas City. From the album New Vintage: New Music for Trumpet and Organ by American Composers
Dinos Constantinides at 88 is presently Boyd Professor, the highest academic rank at Louisiana State University, composer-in-residence at LSU, head of the Composition area at LSU, and Music Director of the Louisiana Sinfonietta.
Dinos Constantinides’ work is conservative, approachable, and generally tonal. His hallmarks are: motific unity and good, audible counterpoint, pleasing instrumental sonorities, and a mix of lyricism and jauntiness, even humor.
The Music for Two Saxophones and Orchestra is a fun piece. It denotes the thoughts of two individuals expressed in many ways in a conversation format. As the titles of the four movements of the work indicate, the conversation appears sometimes as a monologue, a dialogue, a beginning or an ending. Throughout the piece intervallic relationships control the various happenings. Sonorities based on seconds and thirds highlight the harmonic progressions which influence the direction of the music. Stylistic quotations ornamented by sound effects are also important. This piece is written for and dedicated to Greek saxophone virtuoso Stathis Mavrommatis. Theofilos Sotiriades & Yiannis Miralis, saxophones;
Dedications For Quartet Of Saxophones
Like many other works, this composition is derived from materials based on a
1970 work, “20th Century Studies for Two Violins”. Same materials have also been used
in many other works of the composer. This piece is modal in nature. Performed by the Macedonian Saxophone Quartet
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