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Evening Music

Tuesday, September 02, 2008
  • Libby Larsen (Photo by Ann Marsden)
    Libby Larsen (Photo by Ann Marsden)

    Dancing Solo

    Composer Libby Larsen has written for ensembles large and small during her fruitful career. We hear one of the latter tonight in "Dancing Solo," a work for for solo clarinet. According to Larsen, "Dancing Solo" is "a dance for clarinet, a dance composed of color, rhythm, beat implied and explicit, and breath: the music is the dance and the dance is the music."

Other works featured tonight include:

Samuel Barber / "Summer Music," Op. 31
Sergei Rachmaninoff / Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36
Francis Poulenc / Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani in G Minor
Quincy Porter / String Quartet No. 4
Pablo Sarasate / "Fantasy on Gounod's 'Faust'"
Sergei Rachmaninoff / "Symphonic Dances," Op. 45

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