Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1330331
Composed by Daniel Burwasser. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 7 pages. Head and Stem #918212. Published by Head and Stem (A0.1330331).
These four piano pieces were compiled as a set and dedicated to the memory of David Del Tredici.Â
The idea for Four a Mentor was sparked by the recent death of the composer, David Del Tredici with whom Burwasser studied while working toward completing his Ph.D. in composition at the CUNY Graduate School. When hearing of his passing, Burwasser immediately searched for some old pieces he had written under Del Tredici's tutelage during the late 1980s. He unearthed two pieces which were composed with him, “Mini Waltz”, when Burwasser was tasked to write a piece in the style of Chopin, and a short, jazzy arrangement of the 19th-century Christian hymn and Christmas carol, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”. The other two works while not directly associated with Del Tredici, were composed during the same era. “Lullaby” was written in honor of the birth of a friend’s niece. The “Prelude”, originally named “Title Sequence”, was based on a film project the composer was working on that never came to fruition (like “Three Shades of Lenny”). All four pieces have been minimally revised.Â
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