Harbergs TENEMENT RHAPSODY brings both the percussive and the expressive potential of two pianos to life in a work depicting her experience living in New York City. Subway is a jagged, jazzy dance full of virtuosic and contrapuntal interplay. At Home offers the emotional center with melodic and lush materials. At Play features a humorous energy inspired by life behind the composers apartment door as her 14-month-old explored his universe with eager eyes and the swagger of a drunken sailor. A recording of TENEMENT RHAPSODY can be found at https://youtu.be/EOTlYTKeZi8 . "It's a perfect example of a voice that marries a lifetime of inhaling the world's piano literature, with jazz idioms and propulsive rhythm. Like the first movement, a whirlwind of Prokofieff-spiked colors peppered with chunky blue notes ... or the lyrical second movement, soaked in open mid-century American-harmonies-almost like a rippling reflection of Barber's Nocturne... or the energetic closing movement's homage to Mr. Gershwin." (Jonathan Newman)
- Vendor:
- Fischer Presser
- Composer:
- Amanda Harberg
- Format:
- Performance Scores
- ISBN:
- 9781491134733.0
- Instrumentation:
- Piano 1, Piano 2
- Pages:
- 36.0
- Scoring:
- Piano 1, Piano 2
- UPC:
- 680160624676.0
- Copyright Year:
- 2015, 2021
- Table of Contents:
- I. Subway, II. At Home, III. At Play