SKU: P2.10008

Lon W. Chaffin says, To the Middle and Back has five movements, each featuring different instruments. The first and fifth movements feature the flute and horn. The second and fourth movements highlight the oboe and bassoon, while the third movement stands alone, giving the clarinet the spotlight. The piece demonstrates a typical arch form... Thus, the title of the piece alludes to the formal structure... The melodic and harmonic vocabulary explore pentatonic and modal scale structures within both quartal/quintal and tertian vertical sonorities. The metrical forms are very traditional in the first two and last two movements, but the third demostrates oscillation between symmetrical and asymmetrical meters as well as an interweaving of the two..

SKU: HL.48181047

UPC: 888680868970. 9x12 inches.

1. Basse-Dance; 2. Bransle de Bourgogne; 3. Gaillarde; 4. Allemande; 5. Tourdion; 6. Bransle de Champagne (for flute, clarinet, cor anglais, horn and bassoon).

SKU: P2.10015

Composer Reed A. Hanna writes, Red Lights! is a coming-of-age story about a young man and his attempt to find himself. In each of the three movements, the listener follows the young man on his journey through the exotic world of the red light district, which may at first seem to have an allure of excitement and novelty, but might end up being a mysterious realm of plausible scandal and ill-repute. The young man, blinded by his voracious desire to experience the unknown, encounters many things in his journey that are 'eye-opening' (to say the least). This eye-opening impression is bestowed on him most notably through his encounter with 'Madame', a character who offers the more worldly perspective that is the object of the young man's desire - or so he thinks..