Orchestra Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Contrabass SKU: PR.416414250 ...(+)
Orchestra Violin 1,
Violin 2, Viola, Cello,
Contrabass
SKU:
PR.416414250
For
String Orchestra.
Composed by Clint
Needham. Premiered by the
New York Classical
Players; New York, NY.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2010. 30 pages.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#416-41425. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.416414250).
UPC:
680160602261. 8.5 x 11
inches.
DRIVING
MUSIC was commissioned by
the New York Classical
Players for their
inaugural concert.
Thework took inspiration
from Needham’s
seemingly-constant travel
schedule in the spring
and summer of2010. The
work was written, in
part, in various cities
across the country, on a
number of planes, and
innumerous car rides (as
a passenger, of course).
To highlight the
composer’s
travels, the work is cast
ina series of contrasting
musical vignettes, with
each section representing
a place Needham was in
whilesketching the
work.