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orchestra’s great sonic resources. The title
has a dual meaning. The melodic core of
the piece features many of the ‘unsung’
virtuosi of the orchestra: Piccolo, English
horn, Bass Clarinet, Contrabassoon,
Tuba, Triangle/Tambourine and
Double Bass. In addition, most of my
compositions feature singers (opera,
oratorio, song cycles), and I typically
derive much of the emotional content
of my works from a text and vocal
line. Here, the absence of a text and
vocal line left a void that I needed to
fill through the expressiveness of the
highlighted instruments. In this sense,
too, the piece is ‘unsung.’
I wrote Unsung between September
and December of 2015.”
Instrumentation: Two flutes, piccolo, two oboes,
English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two
bassoons, contrabassoon, two horns, two
trumpets, trombone, tuba, timpani percussion,
and strings.
Symphony in Three Movements
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Igor Stravinsky
Born in Oranienbaum, Russia, June 18, 1882;
died in New York City, April 6, 1971
Composed between 1942 and 1945,
Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three
Movements was a work that issued out
of World War II, as did Prokofiev’s
Fifth Symphony and Shostakovich’s
“Leningrad” and Eighth symphonies.
But for a long time after its premiere
on January 24, 1946, by the New
York Philharmonic under his baton,
Stravinsky insiste