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"The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed" — Chick Corea
Ron Levy Music
Six Pieces for Woodwind Quintet
Six Pieces for Woodwind Quintet:
Six epigrammatic essays in a very challenging medium.
The challenge? How to achieve a full sonority in an ensemble of five disparate instruments.
The solution? Careful use of unison and octave doubling to create fullness and resonance.
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1. Jump and Leap
Although there is no discernible melody, it tells its curious story convincingly
2. A Strange Meeting
Mozart goes to the movies
3. Persistence
Original title: Frustration
4. Java Booboo
Pentatonic patterns — with a playful taunt at the end
5. Chocolate Fingers
Takes its title from a line in Genesis (the band, not the book)
6. Leaning Down
A hoedown in classical pajamas
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First performance: Popper Theater in Schoenberg Hall on the campus of University of California Los Angeles
