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Joan Tower

Copperwave  Play

Gaudete Brass Quintet

Recorded on 12/28/2011, uploaded on 02/15/2012

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

 

Joan Tower writes about her composition, Copperwave, “My father was a geologist and mining engineer and I grew up loving everything to do with minerals and rocks.  Copper is a heavy but flexible mineral that is used for many different purposes and most brass instruments are made of copper.  The ideas in this piece move in waves, sometimes heavy ones and at other times lighter--also in circles, turning around on the same notes.  Occasionally, there is a Latin-type of rhythm that appears, a reminder of my years growing up in South America where my father was working as a mining engineer.”  Gaudete Brass Quintet