Oboe and piano
SKU:
P2.20008
Composed by
Mike D'Ambrosio. Solo
music. Published by
Potenza Music (P2.20008).
Composer Mike
D'Ambrosio says, Super
Groove was commissioned
by oboist Celeste Johnson
Frehner (Oklahoma State
University) and was
premiered in April 2012.
After I sent Celeste an
early draft of the piece
(about half done at that
time), her first response
was This is super groovy!
and thus the title was
born. For my part, I was
trying to bring together
my worlds as composer and
music theory professor by
taking some of the fun
theory topics I get to
teach (sonata form,
chromatic mediants,
ostinato, polyrhythms,
and set theory) and
squeezing them into a
driving, energetic, and
highly rhythmic texture.
The piece is extremely
fun to play and has been
very well received by
audiences..