Extremity Of Sky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
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Orchestra 2 Bassoons, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Oboes, 2 Tenor Trombones, 3 Flutes (3d doubling Piccolo), 3 Trumpets in C, 4 Horns in F, 5 Percussion*, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bass Trombone, Celesta, English Horn, Harp, Percussion 1 - Vi, Solo Piano, Strings, Timpani, Tuba
SKU: PR.416414000
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Composed by Melinda Wagner. Contemporary. Study Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2002. 113 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #416-41400. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.416414000).UPC: 680160599561. 8.5 x 11 inches.
In the same year that Tintinnabulum was composed (1999), Melinda Wagner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition for her Concerto for Flute, and she received a commission from the Chicago Symphony to compose a piano concerto for Emmanuel Ax. Although not a programmatic work, much of EXTREMITY OF SKY was written in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, and when Wagner later came across the phrase “extremity of the skies” in Act III of Shakespeare’s King Lear, she felt it expressed the atmosphere surrounding the composition of the work.