Pastoral Symphony (1977)

Woodwind Quintet and Piano – 23 mins.
Lauren Keiser Music Publishing

[fl.ob.cl.hn.bn. / pno.]

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Program Note

Pastoral Symphony (1977) owes more than just a few passing motivic quotes to its namesake; it is the spirit of Beethoven’s Symphony which inspired this piece, whose main impetus is the bright, sunny, open-air, joyous music which is rather rare in the art music of our century. There are rough, tense sections of serial disjunctness sprinkled through the piece, but tunes and buoyant rhythms clearly rule the day.