Chamber Music Piano SKU: PR.140401220
Hommage à Bártok. Composed by Gerald Levinson. (See lengthy note with music notation included, on page 2 of the publication.). Performance Score. With Standard notation. 8 pages. Duration 4:30. Theodore Presser Company #140-40122. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401220). ISBN 9781491114445. UPC: 680160642090. 9 x 12 inches.
This simple piece was written in 2015 as a birthday present for the composer’s wife, poet and fellow bird lover Nanine Valen; it is a sequel to a Chorale he wrote for her in 1969. The work’s ornithological character is an affectionate tribute as well to Levinson’s teacher Olivier Messiaen. The birds referenced are a highly stylized chickadee and two song sparrows.
