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SCOTT PENDER'S 
FRAGMENTS

for chorus and brass quintet 


World Premiere Performance 
March 1992


COLUMBIA PRO CANTARE
Frances Dawson, Conducting
with
​Terry Park, tenor
Rhunell Gruender, piano
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and the
​ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET

Robert Suggs, trumpet
David Cran, trumpet
Sharon Tiebert, horn
Wayne Wells, trombone
Robert Posten, bass trombone
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This work was commissioned by the Columbia Pro Cantare to commemorate its fifteenth anniversary and is dedicated to Frances Motyca Dawson and the Columbia Pro Cantare.  It was premiered in March 1992 by the Columbia Pro Cantare and the Annapolis Brass Quintet.
Fragments by Scott Pender
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Duration: 20' 05"
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Fragments is composed on a set of eleven songs using as text English translations by Guy Davenport of poems (and fragments of poems) by two Greek Bronze Age poets, Archilochus and Sappho.  
The subject matter of the poems covers a wide range: war, mystery, love and isolation. 
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1.  War  
2. Long Ago
3.  How Many Times
4.  I Wouldn't Be Surprised
5.  Thief and the Night
6.  May He Lose His Way
7.  Neobulé's hand
8.  With Eyes Like That
9.  Sometimes
​10.  Doves
​11.  And the Heart is Pleased


The fourth piece (which I have titled “I Wouldn’t Be Surprised”) is a satire on the overreaction of the general public to an eclipse. And the sixth, “May He Lose His Way,” is a curse, directed against a man who took back his word. The word in question was the promise of his daughter in marriage, and the daughter was the Neobulé referred to in the next song.  
~ Scott Pender

To follow the texts for the eleven songs of Fragments
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Fragments has received critical praise cited for its “contrapuntal richness and structural variety” and “natural and fluent . . . use of traditional melody and tonality.”

To visit our Scott Pender's Songs from Terezín web page
and to listen to the 1991 world premiere of Songs from Terezín

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The score and parts for Scott Pender's Fragments and Songs from Terezín, ​along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory.
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