James E. Gardner

This short piece was written as a twenty-first birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, becomes interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.

The version for the oboe family was written in 1999 and dedicated to the renowned oboe d'amore soloist Jennifer Paull for her work in instigating and presenting music for all the rare oboes and members of the oboe family of instruments.

The première of this version was given by the Chilean oboist of French descent, Jorge Postel Pavisic, at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Buenos Aires (2000).

James E. Gardner
1999

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