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Drift
2013
solo vibraphone
8'
Commissioned by James Beauton
Premiere: Stony Brook University, May 16, 2013
Additional Performances:
James Beauton, Los Osos School, Rancho Cucamonga, March 13, 2014
Chris Howard, New Music and Culture Symposium, SUNY Albany, Jan. 31, 2015
Chris Howard, Stony Brook University, Feb 25, 2019
Program note:
Debussy was not far from my mind when I wrote this piece, and it is with his trademark spontaneity that new textures appear and recede, sometimes with urgency but more often with tranquility. The interval of a major third anchors the piece and bookends many phrases, creating an elliptical quality that permeates the music.
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