Scritch for the Left Coast Ensemble, with Gratitude by Melinda Wagner Chamber Music - Sheet Music
By Melinda Wagner
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Scritch
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Chamber Music Cello, Oboe, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114414990
For the Left Coast Ensemble, with Gratitude. Composed by Melinda Wagner. Sws. Contemporary. Score and parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2009. 60 pages. Duration 13 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41499. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114414990).UPC: 680160598960. 10 x 13 inches.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner plus a Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA Commission equals an exciting new performance piece for this combination of instruments. The commissioning groups, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Empyrean Ensemble, have both performed the work to excellent reviews. "A well-crafted and tasteful piece... A series of five short episodes written in sort of lyrical, expressionist mode... An appealing piece, and its evolving textures showcased the group’s excellent sense of ensemble." (Benjamin Frandzel, in the San Francisco Classical Voice) For advanced performers.
In the hands of a fine player, the oboe is so agile — yet, it is also capable of producing sustained lines of melancholic beauty.xa0 I wanted to showcase these attributes.xa0 The resulting piece is certainly a vehicle for virtuosic oboe playing, while being no less tricky for the strings!The piece consists of a series of episodes — skittering, playful, sometimes agitated rhythmic passages sharply contrasted with scarily slow chorale textures.xa0 While the piece is sectional in this way, I tried to maintain a kind of narrative throughout.xa0 That is, I wanted to place the buildingxa0blocks of contrasting textures securely within the context of my own developmental style.xa0 And I wanted each of the five parts to “fit” and work together, as if slipping into the fingers of a glove.
