![]() John Keillor has written, “It is a work so successful and openhearted that Makrokosmos III is among the most frequently performed avant-garde chamber works from the second half of the twentieth century.” Volume IV Music for a Summer Evening was premiered by Gilbert Kalish and James Freeman (piano), Raymond DesRoches and Richard Fitz (percussion) at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, on 30 March 1974. Three of the pieces bear an epigraph: piece 1 from Salvatore Quasimodo's poem Ulysses' Isle, piece 3 from Pascal, and piece 5 from Rilke. The Advent (including Hymn for the Nativity of the Star-Child).Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for Swarthmore College, the work is scored for two amplified pianos and percussion (two players), contains fewer pieces, and does not associate any of the pieces with Zodiac signs. It departs considerably from the previous two. The collection was premiered by Robert Miller at the Alice Tully Hall, New York City, on 12 November 1974.Ī collection of five pieces completed in 1974 and titled Music for a Summer Evening forms the third volume of Makrokosmos. Similarly to Volume I, the last piece of each part is notated so that the score forms an image: two circles (piece 4), a cowrie-like shape (piece 8), and the peace sign (piece 12). Voices from "Corona Borealis" (Aquarius).Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) (Scorpio). ![]()
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