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APNM COMPOSER: Allen Anderson
Allen Anderson is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been commissioned by the Koussevitsky, Guggenheim, and Fromm Foundations, as well as by Chamber Music America and the American Music Center. He has received awards for his compositions from BMI (for Skies, the Quake), New England Chapter of League of Composers/ISCM (Leo Snyder Prize for Arcade), the Washington Square Contemporary Music Association Prize (for Solfeggietti), and the National Chapter of League of Composers/ ISCM(for From the Signature of All Things). In 2005, He received the Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Society of Arts and Letters. His music has been recorded on CRI in performances by Speculum Musicae, the Lydian String Quartet, Aleck Karis and Curt Macomber.
Zephyro, Zephyro, dating from 1979, is a quick, extroverted
and mercurial trio for clarinet, cello and piano. In one movement
and approximately seven minutes in length, the piece revolves around
the lightning reflexes and fierce interplay of the instruments.
Collected Letters for unaccompanied cello (1999) is a ten-minute “reading” of
six metaphorical letter fragments arranged in a form
to suggest a cumulative
narrative. Labeled Rash Proposal, Affections, Apologia, Communiqué,
and Post-(de)scriptions, the six sections
reveal shared musical
concerns and behavior in much the same way that an author’s collected
letters reveal common threads, even
among letters written under different
circumstances. Like a letter, the intent is to convey a directness
of address, which places the
listener as the recipient and frames the
cellist as the sender.
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All APNM Works by Allen Anderson |
Duration |
Year |
Materials Available |
Sound Sample |
ARCADE for violin and
piano |
14 min |
1985 |
score |
No |
COLLECTED LETTERS for
violoncello solo |
10 min |
1999 |
score |
Yes |
MEASURE OF TERRAIN
for piano solo |
11 min |
1979 |
score |
No |
SKIES, THE QUAKE cl,
vn, vc, pno |
18 min |
1980 |
score, parts |
No |
SUPRA ROSA baritone,
b cl, va, vc |
4 min |
1979 |
score, parts |
No |
ZEPHYRO, ZEPHYRO cl,
vc, pno |
7 min |
1978 |
score |
No |
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