AISHIHIK
3-2-2-3,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Pno, Str. 14'
Peter Ware
"The music wins you over with its marvellous stillness." -The Toronto Star
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A single-movement concerto for piano and orchestra reflects the character of a
glacier lake in the Yukon. While the orchestration features the lower instruments,
the piano is often frozen in the upper registers creating an icy coldness and sense of
starkness and beauty. 49 p. AE144
$49.98
BACA LOCATION # 1
1-1-1-1, 2-2-1-1, Timp., Str. 22' Peter Ware
BACA Location #1: "His music stretches the ear into strange, exotic and pleasing territory that belongs as much to the contemporary work as to the ancient" -Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Inspired by the now extinct Jaymez volcano in New Mexico, this two-movement work opens Larghetto
espressivo with an oratory in the bass instruments which leads to a striving, lyrical
theme in the cellos. This sets the mood for the music that follows,
culminating in a declamatory clarinet solo. In the Allegro, an expansive
winding theme overlays terse and staccato ostinati. At times frenzied and at times
spent, the music presses onward into a Prestissimo agitato with increasing weight
to the concluding passage of grinding bass, shrilling violins, and the final
gigantic
chords. 81 p. AE08X $81.98
CANTATA " In Praise of
Freedom" 3-2-2-2, 4-4-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Hp, Bar Str.
Robert
Rollin
This sixteen-minute vocal piece combines the Baroque genre with a fresh contemporary
language. The text is drawn from four historical excerpts, including Aristotle's Politics,
the Old Testament, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King
Jr.'s famous "I had a Dream" speech. NE0399 Score
$47.98
CHAMBER CONCERTO FOR GUITAR (Classical
Guitar with Wind Ensemble or Classical Guitar
and Chamber Orchestra)
Richard J. Smoot
"It's baroque brevity belies the richness of the music which has a cool oriental palette of Japanese scales and motifs giving the piece a broad vision that is often evocative. As a composer / guitarist, Smoot knows the subtle modulations that suit his instrument and there are hints of Villa-Lobos in some of the thematic treatments. The third movement, with its pounding march-like theme is a fitting conclusion to a compact and lively concerto."
Tim Panting, -Classical Guitar Magazine
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This concerto is written in an accessible style and retains the traditional three-movement
form. It was commissioned by Ohio Northern University for the 5th Annual OPCICA
Honours Festival. Wind Ensemble: 1111-2220-Timp., 2 Perc., Solo Gtr, & Db.
AE39X Score & Parts $99.98 Chamber Orchestra: 1111-2000-Timp., 2
Perc., Solo Gtr, & Strings. AE977 Score & Parts $99.98
THE FIRE FROM WITHIN
3-3-2-2,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Str. 13'
Peter Ware
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THE FIRE FROM WITHIN: "Plaudits are due Conta for his choice of the evening’s opening work, The Fire From Within by Peter Ware. This was an accessible and serious contemporary piece, based on an Indian Legend, that spoke in its slow and sonorous language of a mysterious and profound psychic experience" -The
Leader-Post
Drawing from a Toltec legend similar to the Egyptian myth of the phoenix, a sorcerer may
avoid death by lighting up his bands of awareness and becoming consumed by a fire from
within. This fire then liberates him from death. Opening with a Largo
misterioso introduction featuring a trumpet solo, it progresses to an Allegro
appassionata where the interplay of instruments develops into a jazz-like theme
when the xylophone enters. Thematic and motivic statements are continually explored
and transformed throughout. A dramatic Andante leads to the closing Larghetto
con fuoco. 36 p. AE667 $36.98
KABAH (Rental fee: $99.98)
Violin (4),
Viola (2), Cello. (2) 35' Peter Ware
"Kabah, inspired by a Mayan ruin in Mexico's Yucatan peninsular, is a forceful and intense piece that yields little to the narrative style." -Tim Panting, Classical Guitar magazine
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Named after a Mayan ruin in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, this three-movement Octet is
fashioned in a fast-slow-fast arrangement. The eloquent outer two movements are lively and
rhythmically active with a compelling character, while the middle andante proceeds
with a ceremonious beauty. It offers a wonderful contrast to the Mendelssohn
String Octet. 55 p. Score
AE918s $55.98, Score & Parts AE918 $157.98
KUSAWA 3-3-3-2,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Hp, Str. 12' Peter Ware
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This tone poem of majesty and depth is evocative of a beautiful glacier lake in the Yukon
located south of the Alaska highway between Whitehorse and Haines Junction . It
reflects the sparkling clarity and majestic quality of the lake in the constantly shifting
orchestration, blending of timbres and colours, and subtle melodic
transformations. As instruments layer in counterpoint, the quartal and chromatic
harmonies emerge building into a polytonal palette. 23 p. AE0321 $23.98
LATAKIA 1-1-1-1, 2-1-0-0,
Timp., Perc. (1), Hp, Str. 11'
Peter
Ware
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Written for the town of Latakia in Syria on the shores of the Mediterranean, this
single-movement work begins with a flute solo accompanied by tremolo strings and
harp. Trumpets and horns mark the Andante con mosso, where cellos emerge with
a playful theme that is developed by strings and winds in a Vivace giocoso
section. A viola solo interrupts the motion with a transformation of melodic
material from the Andante now in a mysterious character. The Vivace
returns more sombre and develops into a long singing theme in the winds. A queer
dance in triple meter is heard in the oboe; and as the xylophone enters, the emotional
ardour accelerates into a Prestissimo leggiero. The work concludes with a
meditative Largo. 44 p. AE87X $44.98
SYMPHONY NO. 1
Ancient Evenings 3-2-2-2,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (2), Str. 40' Peter Ware
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"The orchestra reveled in the evocative and passionate passages of the musical epic." -The London Free Press.
Like Norman Mailer's novel, this piece opens in a burial crypt. Sounds effuse from
stone, slowly and magically, as if recapturing a distant past within that brief, equivocal
moment flickering between life and death. In the first movement, the soul attends
its own funeral as transformations of Taps are played by solo trumpet and horn,
delineating the three main sections. The faster sections utilize contrapuntal
techniques including mixed canons, imitation and a fugato with solos dispersed throughout
the orchestra. The second and third movements use abstract linear
writing, rich harmonies and heroic themes to create the drama and excitement of the
hero's journey through the past. 155 p. AE572 $155.98
TSANKAWI 2-2-2-2, 4-2-3-1,
Timp., Perc.
(3), Str. 7' Peter Ware
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TSANKAWI: "From the arresting opening of the bass drums thundering at either side of the stage, the music weaved a haunting spell." -The Leader Post. "TSANKAWI, Ware’s sweeping tonal picture of an Indian ruin atop a mesa in the Rocky Mountains." -Richmond News Leader.
Inspired by an Indian ruin situated at the top of a mesa located in the Rocky Mountains, Tsankawi
is often described as a painting in sound. It depicts this ancient landscape
progressing slowly and deliberately, with an inner strength and refined sense of
urgency. The drama is set in the beginning as two powerful bass drum rolls sound
from opposite sides of the stage. Like a stirring of life, the upper strings and
winds emerge from the low percussion and brass, creating an atmosphere of
oriental serenity
with an aura of expansive time and space. 11 p. AE403
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