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Trust your heritage with our experts C o n s e r vat i o n 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 Custom Framing P h o t o r e s t o r at i o n Coyle Tips Use silica desiccant packs in your photo boxes to defeat humidity and moisture. 516 Fairmount ave, towson, mD 21286 410.825.6858 [email protected] coylestudios.com restoreoldphotosnow.com By Appointment. 24 O v ertur e | www. bsomusic .org 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