Steven Mackey

Composer's notes:Beautiful Passing is in two halves separated by a violin cadenza. The first half deals with the interaction between the sharply contrasting materials of the violin and the orchestra....

Year of composition: 2003

Composer's notes:Beautiful Passing is in two halves separated by a violin cadenza. The first half deals with the interaction between the sharply contrasting materials of the violin and the orchestra....

Composer's note:Several years ago I attended The Percussive Arts Society National Convention. There I witnessed a ninety-minute clinic on state of the art techniques for playing crash cymbals. I confe...

Le compositeur a imaginé certains moyens d'obtenir en les cajolant des sons de morceaux de bois, de métal ou de peau, au lieu de simplement les percuter ; pour lui, en effet, le premier pas dans l'écr...