Browsing by Author "Nytch, Jeffrey Curtis"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra. (Original composition);
    (1994) Nytch, Jeffrey Curtis; Cooper, Paul
    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra was composed for Richard Stolzman and the Seattle Symphony, with a recording of the work planned for 1995 on the Master Musicians Collective Label. The work follows the Classical model of three movements (fast, slow, fast), with the first movement in a traditional sonata form. The second movement is a freer, meditative movement, and the final movement is a modified rondo-variations. The work attempts to reflect the Classical ideals of clarity of form, structure and orchestration, while the technical demands made on the players are within the idiomatic limits of their instruments. The concerto is sixteen and one-half minutes long and is scored for pairs of winds (with an additional clarinet), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, percussion (three players), harp, clarinet solo and strings.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Novas. (Original composition);
    (1991) Nytch, Jeffrey Curtis; Cooper, Paul
    Novas is a work for orchestra which attempts to portray unbounded energy. It is not in any sense a programmatic work about novas. It is, however, about the energy in such things as novas. Similar energy is exhibited, on a much smaller scale, in things such as a seed sprouting forth. It is no less a revolutionary event for the seed sprouting as it is for the star going nova. The nature of the energy is the same: outward-directed, unbound, exuberant, transforming. This piece attempts to portray, through various musical lenses, the numerous guises of this energy which is present throughout the cosmos.