SATB -- 24 voice min.
The Crossing, Donald Nally - conductor
SATB, 16 voices
The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
solo bassoon + 2.2.0.0/2(natural horn).0.0.0/strings (playable on modern instruments)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Michael Gordon’s mesmerizing concert-length work, Rushes for 7 bassoons, receives its New York City premiere on October 23 at the Park Avenue Armory performed by The Rushes Ensemble.
Released last year on Cantaloupe Music, Rushes takes its place alongside Gordon’s Timber for expanding the boundaries of a single instrument’s repertoire into hitherto unknown (and at times, otherworldly) spaces…
continue readingIn a way, this is a tale of two cities
This past November I went to my hometown, Miami Beach, for a performance by the New World Symphony of my orchestral work, Gotham, a three-movement symphony that takes the city of New York as its subject. It is part of an ongoing project of ‘film symphonies’ that I am creating with filmmaker Bill Morrison to capture the aura of cities.
My family moved to Miami Beach from Nicaragua when I was eight years old…
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