DAVID SAMPSON "MORNING MUSIC" 1986 (12'31")
About the Composer:
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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."
This 1986 work 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."
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."
This 1986 work 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."