Chamber Music Percussion,
Piano
SKU:
PR.114407510
For
Solo Percussion and
Orchestra. Composed
by Daniel Dorff. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 44+18
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40751.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114407510).
UPC:
680160011599. 9.5 x 13
inches.
Commissione
d by Marta Ptaszynska for
the 1992 Bydgoszcz
Percussion Symposium in
Poland, Dorff’s
concerto bears a secret
program reflecting the
proud strength of Polish
Solidarnosc standing up
to Soviet oppression.
Lurking in the
drama’s background
were the ironies of
Poland’s financial
dependence on the USSR,
and Dorff’s
ancestry with Russian and
Polish roots. The first
movement was completed in
August 1991, and an hour
later Gorbachev was
deposed by a coup; the
remainder of the concerto
was composed as the USSR
fell. This glorious
development for human
freedom also meant the
end of financial
commitments from the USSR
to its satellite
countries, leading to the
cancellation of the
Bydgoszcz Festival.
Percussionist Dean Witten
premiered the work with
the Haddonfield (NJ)
Symphony, conducted by
Maestro Alan Gilbert,
then in his 20s.
