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wrote, "Percussion is so frequently used to punctuate loud passages in music that listeners may forget it can be used differently. Much of this concerto is actually fairly quiet, though the second movement rises to an agitated middle section. The finale, which is very loud indeed, nevertheless has a
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subdued section with a distant violin solo (the only such passage in the work) over quiet bass drum." Despite this, he also noted, "At 40 minutes, the work outstayed its welcome."
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said it "seems so lacking in discomfort that it might have been something that came from a former fellow traveler of West Coast percussion experimentalists
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Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra (with optional Brass)
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on September 3, 2013. Glennie's performance on the album later won the
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used in it. Corigliano thus employed such instruments as the
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has a duration of roughly 35 minutes and is composed in three
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Music commissioned by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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with an optional complement of brass, consisting of four
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Music commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
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The title of each movement corresponds to the type of
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Music commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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concerto
string orchestra
John Corigliano
Evelyn Glennie
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Nashville Symphony
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Lisbon
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Pittsburgh
movements
percussion instruments
marimba
wood block
vibraphone
chimes
timpani
bass drum
strings
horns
trumpets
trombones
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The Buffalo News
Lou Harrison
John Cage
Henry Cowell

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