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 |  |  | | | | Track Listings | | | 1 Fiesta for Orchestra (Strandberg -1987) | 1:35 | | from The African-American Symphony (Hicks -1993) | | | 2 "Field Hollers" | 5:31 | | 3 Adagio for String Orchestra and Oboe (Stone -1993) | 4:46 | | 4 Midday Above Heiligenblut (Gass -1993) | 5:56 | | 5 Frozen Vibrations (Berky -1976) | 7:18 | | 6 Baroqueisms of Pleasure (Berky -1992) | 3:44 | | 7 Sparkler (Cipullo -1993) | 5:31 | | 8 Leviathan (Dusek -1991) | 3:32 | | 9 Intrada for Brass and Percussion (Barnes -1990) | 2:12 | | 10 "Unfolding" from Sojourn (Sharpley -1989) | 4:52 | | Total time: | 46:24 |
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| | | | | | MMC Orchestral Miniatures: Volume I | | | Our Price: $9.95  | | | | Item Number: MMC2022 | | Audio Format: DDD | | Genre: Orchestral | | | | Description | | | The MMC Orchestral Miniatures series is designed to provide emerging composers with a venue for presenting their work before a broader audience than that of the concert hall and to provide more experienced composers with an opportunity to record some of their shorter or fragmentary pieces. MMC Recordings is pleased to provide a forum which allows these carefully crafted smaller works, all performed by some of the world’s finest orchestras, to be heard. |
| | | | | | | Reviews | | "'Field Hollers' from the African-American Symphony by Geoffrey Hicks is deeply moving. Hicks gives us music that is really about something, in this case the soul of a people. I am impressed by his technique with the strings. But the main thing to note is that this piece shows the deepest feeling in the anthology. In the same vein, I also admire the Adagio for String Orchestra and Oboe by Robin Stone. Like the Hicks work, it is highly accomplished music in a conservative idiom, with beautiful harmonies, especially in the strings. Hats off here to the fine oboist."
"Glen Gass[‘s] Midday Above Heiligenblut begins serenely, builds to several remarkable Ivesian passages full of anxiety and harmonic multiplicity, and then subsides again."
"Tom Cipullo['s] Sparkler is an unashamedly picturesque piece, actually opening with a literal evocation of a sparkler and reveling in spectacular instrumental effects throughout its course. The spirit of Bernstein is evoked at moments in this work; indeed, the whole composition is suffused with a mid-century American tonal language that has come very much back into favor. The use of thematic material is as impressive as the orchestration."
"All the orchestras are good, and they had better be to handle a few of the pieces. [T]he Hicks, Stone, Gass, and Cipullo works are good enough reasons to have this disc, and I recommend it."
-FANFARE: Elliott Hurwitt
“[It] is usually in the nature of miniatures that they be light, unchallenging, and tonal-and these [on MMC 2022] are. Since space prohibits describing all of the pieces, suffice it to say that they are all deserving of attentive listening, especially if you like your new music in short non-threatening doses.”
American Record Guide: Stephen Hicken |
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