Composer:
Colin Riley
Instrumentation:
Large ensemble (saxophone soloist/lead and any other combination 8+ players)
Details:
For 8 Tenor Saxophones
Duration:
06:00
Difficulty:
Advanced: approx Grade 8+
Publisher:
colinriley.co.uk
Date:
2015
Score sample:
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Programme notes:
Ted Hughes' poem 'The Warm and the Cold' was the inspiration with alternating sections of two types of material as a kind of verse and refrain. The material in the verse section is soft and lyrical and improvisational in character.
Performance notes:
Written for and premiered by the Tenor Saxophone Collective
SaxOpen Festival
Salle de la Bourse, Strasbourg
Sunday 12th July
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