DAVID SAMPSON "MORNING MUSIC" 1986 (12'31")
About the Composer:
http://www.davidsampsoncomposer.com/about/
About the Work:
David Sampson
Morning Music, for brass quintet
Description by Joseph Stevenson David Sampson is an American composer who was born in 1951 and makes his teaching, performing, and composing career in New York. He is a founder of the ten-piece brass ensemble "Solid Brass."
Sampson's 1986 Morning Music was composed for brass quintet. It 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 murder of the composer¹s brother by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis. It 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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Sampson, DavidDistant Voices [211.01 or 212.00] 20th Century (1990). Distant Voices for brass quintet is a four movement, sixteen minute composition written during the spring and summer of 1990. Commissioned by the American Brass Quintet through a grant from the Jerome Foundation.
The work was premiered on May 5, 1991 at Delbarton School/St. Mary's Abbey Church a
The curious titles of the movements
(1. James Agee: Writer; 2. Bobby Hackett, Jazz Cornetist;
3. Brother Paul Diveny: Benedictine Monk; 4. Ben and Mark: My Sons)
were chosen from a long list of people who have had a profound effect on my life. We are all the result of our continuous filtering of myriad influences.
The distant voices referred to in the title are simply the voices in one's mind that guide one's thoughts and actions.
Distant Voices in meant to honor these people.
James Agee, the writer of A Death in the Family, impressed me from my college days as truly absorbed in his life as a creative artist. His voice challenges me to not accept the obvious or comfortable.
Bobby Hackett, an elegantly lyrical jazz cornetist, was one of the first musicians I studied through recordings. I used to listen to and play along with his deceptively simple improvisations. He taught me how to play a line and make a beautiful sound.
Br. Paul Diveny, a Benedictine Monk at St. Mary's Abbey in Morristown, New Jersey, is a special friend who helped me survive family tragedy through religion.
He introduced me through his exampleto the spiritual aspects of life in a way that profoundly deepened my awareness.
My sons, Ben and Mark, are a constant challenge and surprise. They allow me to see life as a child again and feed my creative approach to living.
This depiction captures theenergy of them playing a hide and seek game where the object was to scare each other. -David
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NYTIMES 1996 ARTICLE ON CELLO CONCERTOR
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/nyregion/transcending-a-painful-moment-in-history.html
http://www.davidsampsoncomposer.com/about/
About the Work:
David Sampson
Morning Music, for brass quintet
Description by Joseph Stevenson David Sampson is an American composer who was born in 1951 and makes his teaching, performing, and composing career in New York. He is a founder of the ten-piece brass ensemble "Solid Brass."
Sampson's 1986 Morning Music was composed for brass quintet. It 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 murder of the composer¹s brother by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis. It 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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Sampson, DavidDistant Voices [211.01 or 212.00] 20th Century (1990). Distant Voices for brass quintet is a four movement, sixteen minute composition written during the spring and summer of 1990. Commissioned by the American Brass Quintet through a grant from the Jerome Foundation.
The work was premiered on May 5, 1991 at Delbarton School/St. Mary's Abbey Church a
The curious titles of the movements
(1. James Agee: Writer; 2. Bobby Hackett, Jazz Cornetist;
3. Brother Paul Diveny: Benedictine Monk; 4. Ben and Mark: My Sons)
were chosen from a long list of people who have had a profound effect on my life. We are all the result of our continuous filtering of myriad influences.
The distant voices referred to in the title are simply the voices in one's mind that guide one's thoughts and actions.
Distant Voices in meant to honor these people.
James Agee, the writer of A Death in the Family, impressed me from my college days as truly absorbed in his life as a creative artist. His voice challenges me to not accept the obvious or comfortable.
Bobby Hackett, an elegantly lyrical jazz cornetist, was one of the first musicians I studied through recordings. I used to listen to and play along with his deceptively simple improvisations. He taught me how to play a line and make a beautiful sound.
Br. Paul Diveny, a Benedictine Monk at St. Mary's Abbey in Morristown, New Jersey, is a special friend who helped me survive family tragedy through religion.
He introduced me through his exampleto the spiritual aspects of life in a way that profoundly deepened my awareness.
My sons, Ben and Mark, are a constant challenge and surprise. They allow me to see life as a child again and feed my creative approach to living.
This depiction captures theenergy of them playing a hide and seek game where the object was to scare each other. -David
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NYTIMES 1996 ARTICLE ON CELLO CONCERTOR
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/nyregion/transcending-a-painful-moment-in-history.html