SCORES
Pastel & Oil
for wind quintet
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ABOUT
Four paintings provide the focus for Pastel & Oil beginning with Lloyd Rees’ Sunlit Tower, Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings Nicotiana and Jack-in-the-Pulpit, before ending with an abstract pastel by Cheryl Stoll Thygeson.
INSTRUMENTATION
wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon)
wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon)
DURATION
8:00 (Morning Song 1:25, Scherzo 1:37, Nocturne 2:45, Waltz 2:00)
DATE OF COMPOSITION
1995-97
PERFORMANCES
5 November 1997 (World Premiere) English Serenata
West Midlands, UK
Other performances:
1999 Mark Underwood flute, Nicholas Benda oboe, Susan Bishop clarinet, William Prince horn, Naoko Matsutani bassoon
Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
1999 Pleiades Quintet: Daniel Pailthorpe flute, Emily Paas oboe, Susan Bishop clarinet, James Thomson horn, Alec Forshaw bassoon
Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth, Wales
