cl/bcl, perc, pno, egtr, vc, cb + spatial brass and percussion 8 trumpets or soprano saxophones in Bb; 8 trombones; 8 percussion (tuned resonant metal & tambourines)
BBC Proms
3.3.3.3[cb]/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc.pf/str
National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing for the "Composing China" project
6 pianos
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
soprano, cl, perc, egtr, piano, vc, db
commissioned by Maria and Robert A. Skirnick and Arts Brookfield
listen to the broadcast:
BBC Radio 3 The New Music Show’s Kate Molleson introduces the world premiere performance by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany of A Western Michael Gordon’s latest choral work, a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys.
Yale School of Music and Library
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string quartet + electronics [all instruments amplified]
Kronos Quartet
In 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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Evelyn Glennie
3 violins + audio playback [all instruments amplified]