without fanfare

9 min.

November 9, 1998
Tsai Performance Center, Boston University
Atlantic Brass Quintet

This piece might have had a longer title, like “without fanfare, jazz, fugue, ragtime, or march.” You hear those kinds of music in so many quintets, and I wanted to escape that to compose music that was natural but unexpected for these instruments. I couldn’t quite dispense with writing a chorale, though, so I put one at the heart of the work’s nine sections.

• April 6, 1997: YSM Brass Quintet, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
• May 9, 1997: USC Brass Quintet, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• February 10, 1998: Atlantic Brass Quintet, Tsai Performance Center, Boston University