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- Joan Tower
Amazon I (1977)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
Programme Note
Composer Note:
Amazon was written for the Da Capo Chamber Players with a commission from the Contemporary Music Society. The great Brazilian river, the Amazon, provides some of the images reflected in this piece. There is a generally consistent background flow that is interrupted only occasionally by "static" events or by silence, and which undergoes change in speed and width through the pacing of notes and the type of texture being articulated. Some different kinds of associations with the river will be evident in the trill passages (ripples of water) and in the fast unison passages (which have the effect of a waterfall and water turbulence). An orchestral version of this piece, Amazon II was premiered by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Amazon III, a chamber orchestra version, was later premiered by the Houston Symphony.
—Joan Tower
Amazon was written for the Da Capo Chamber Players with a commission from the Contemporary Music Society. The great Brazilian river, the Amazon, provides some of the images reflected in this piece. There is a generally consistent background flow that is interrupted only occasionally by "static" events or by silence, and which undergoes change in speed and width through the pacing of notes and the type of texture being articulated. Some different kinds of associations with the river will be evident in the trill passages (ripples of water) and in the fast unison passages (which have the effect of a waterfall and water turbulence). An orchestral version of this piece, Amazon II was premiered by the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Amazon III, a chamber orchestra version, was later premiered by the Houston Symphony.
—Joan Tower