DAVID SAMPSON "MORNING MUSIC" 1986
David Sampson has emerged as one of the truly unique voices of his generation.
He was Composer-in-Residence with the Colonial Symphony Orchestra from 1998 through 2007. He was a recipient a 2014 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.
David Sampson has received major grants from the NEA, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, Barlow Endowment, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Cary Trust, and the Dodge Foundation, among others.
He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Hunter College, Manhattan School of Music, and the Ecoles d’Art Americaines, where his teachers included Karel Husa, Henri Dutilleux and John Corigliano in composition; and Gerard Schwarz, Gilbert Johnson, Robert Nagel, and Raymond Mase in trumpet. His music is published by Editions BIM, Cantate Press and Redrunner Music.
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David Sampson has received major grants from the NEA, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, Barlow Endowment, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Cary Trust, and the Dodge Foundation, among others.
He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Hunter College, Manhattan School of Music, and the Ecoles d’Art Americaines, where his teachers included Karel Husa, Henri Dutilleux and John Corigliano in composition; and Gerard Schwarz, Gilbert Johnson, Robert Nagel, and Raymond Mase in trumpet. His music is published by Editions BIM, Cantate Press and Redrunner Music.
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About the Work: Morning Music for brass quintet
Description by Joseph Stevenson
David Sampson's 1986 Morning Music is a highly personal work, a sequel to his 1981 woodwind quintet named "In Memorian: W.E.S." Thus, both are part of the emotional aftermath of the 1979 murder of the composer¹s brother by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis.
Morning Music is a twelve-minute piece in one movement. It expresses the composer¹s continuing anguish, but unlike the earlier work it allows a feeling of strength to emerge from the despair and grief. It ends with a fast coda. Sampson dedicated the score to his mother, "whose optimism and resiliency have been an inspiration to me."
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Description by Joseph Stevenson
David Sampson's 1986 Morning Music is a highly personal work, a sequel to his 1981 woodwind quintet named "In Memorian: W.E.S." Thus, both are part of the emotional aftermath of the 1979 murder of the composer¹s brother by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis.
Morning Music is a twelve-minute piece in one movement. It expresses the composer¹s continuing anguish, but unlike the earlier work it allows a feeling of strength to emerge from the despair and grief. It ends with a fast coda. Sampson dedicated the score to his mother, "whose optimism and resiliency have been an inspiration to me."
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To Read New York Times:
"Transcending a Painful Moment in History"
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The score and parts for David Sampson's Morning Music for brass quintet, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
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The score and parts for David Sampson's Morning Music for brass quintet, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
Direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection @ Oberlin
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