{"product_id":"higdon-short-stories-lawdon","title":"Higdon: Short Stories","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/jennifer-higdon\"\u003eJennifer Higdon (1962-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eSaxophone Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/higdon-short-stories\"\u003eShort Stories\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003ePROGRAM NOTES:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Short Stories\" is a collection of 6 movements for saxophone quartet, which are flexible in both the order and number in which they can be performed. The piece was written with the idea that a group could tailor their\nperformance according to their venue and the duration they might like to fill on a concert. While being\ncomposer-in-residence with the Prism Saxophone Quartet, I had the chance to see how the demands for\nrepertoire change greatly from concert to concert: through school programs with young students, to college-age\nclassical musicians, to formal recitals. So, when I sat down to write a work for the Ancia, Black Swamp,\nResounding Winds, and Sax 4th Avenue quartets, I wanted a work with as much diversity in the characters of\nthe movements as possible and I wanted the groups to have freedom in their choices of movements. As a result,\nthere are 6 movements, 3 of which are slow and 3 of which are fast, each telling a different story:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Summer's Eve\" - I had in mind the idyllic summer evening where folks are out sitting on their porches in\nswings and rocking chairs, listening to the sounds of summer: crickets and children at play, with soft evening\nbreezes. I wanted to capture the essence and the magic of an ideal summer's eve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lullaby\" - This movement was originally written as a work for mezzo, flute, and piano, but I kept\nhearing it as a saxophone quartet in my head. It is a lullaby whose lyrical qualities seem to lend itself to the\nsaxophone very well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Coyote Nights\" - Many years ago, I took a trip out West, camping out in 8 different National Parks; one\nof those parks was Arches, in Utah. It is an unusual place where it becomes totally dark at night, with large\nlooming rocks, a million stars above, and with the sound of wild coyotes crying in the night. That crying is\npeaceful reminder that we are visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chase\" - A fast movement with much energy and tension, this is a running game that could be through\nany street, anywhere; where pursuers and prey sometimes come very close to catching up with each other, and\nwhen they do, they rough and tumble before sprinting off again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Stomp \u0026amp; Dance\" – This movement speaks for itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Splashing the Canvas\" – Inspired by Jackson Pollock, an artist who splashes paint upon a canvas in a\nwild and uncontrolled manner, building up layers and constantly changing the resulting structure. Through this\npiece, many ideas are presented and are thrown about and layered. At the beginning of the movement it takes\nlonger for the ideas to be stated, but as the piece progresses, the themes come back quicker and quicker as if the\ncanvas were building into thick layers of overlapping ideas and becoming more complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--Jennifer Higdon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lawdon Press","offers":[{"title":"Score \u0026 Set of Parts","offer_id":45178972864591,"sku":"LAWD-166","price":66.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Full Score","offer_id":45178972897359,"sku":"LAWD-167","price":24.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/es\/products\/higdon-short-stories-lawdon","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}