Writing a Piece in 60 Minutes
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A couple of weeks ago (August 2, to be exact), I decided to miss a perfectly good Rockies vs. Reds baseball game to stay home and write a piece in 60 minutes. (I was also taking a mental breather from my take-home Schenker exam, which I should have started earlier that weekend.)
New Music Hartford sponsored a competition with the following guidelines: write a piece in 60 minutes, and if your piece is selected, the musician will have 60 minutes to rehearse your piece before it is performed. Composers who wanted to participate waited until 3 PM EDT to see what their instrumentation would be, and then had to submit a PDF file before 4 PM. I figured, what the hell.
So, they're playing my solo flute piece! Here's the program.
John BACON: "gtr." (for electric guitar and looping pedals)
Michael COLEMAN: "3:48 p.m. Eastern (for solo cello)"
Carson COOMAN: "Beach Grass Elegy" (for flute)
Douglas DASILVA: "Antonio Conselheiro" (for mixed ensemble)
Michelle McQuade DEWHIRST: "47 Miles of Barbed Wire" …
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