Bass clarinet & bassoon - Digital Download SKU: IZ.IMS173 Composed by Kyle Hovatter. Score and Parts. 27 pages. Imagine Music - Digital #IMS173. Published by Imagine Music - Digital (IZ.IMS173). 9 x 12 in inches.In E. L. Doctorow's novel Homer and Langley, based on Manhattan's notorious Fifth Avenue compulsivelyhoarding Collyer brothers, Doctorow i!rst introduces his character Homer as he is losing his sight. Homer is keen tonotice the gradual fade out. Individual details are lost, then whole images are distorted, and i!nally he is completelyblind. In the darkness he can hear a sound made by an ice skater that was always present but never noticed: a softsound though full of intention, a deeper tone than you'd expect made by the skate blades, perhaps for havingsounded the resonant basso under the ice, scoot scut, scoot scut.My deepest thanks to Lara Mitofsky Neuss and Justin Cummings for commissioning this three movement work.
