GEORGE FLYNN (b.1937): American City for Piano and Wind Ensemble (Amy Briggs [piano], DePaul University Wind Ensemble; Donald DeRoche), The Density of Memory for Clarinet Trio and Orchestra (Larry Combs, Julie DeRoche, Wagner Campos [clarinets], DePaul University Symphony Orchestra; Cliff Colnot), St. Vincent's Words for Chorus, Soloists, Brass Octet and String Basses (DePaul University Singers; Clayton Parr).

Catalogue Number: 05K111

Label: Southport

Reference: S-SSD 0129

Format: CD

Price: $12.98

Description: These works were written for the major ensembles at DePaul, where the composer taught for 25 years. American City is a portrayal, not explicitly programmatic, of a 'large quintessentially American city such as Chicago' and progresses through a series of impressions from the noisy, complex and bustling to surprisingly tender, lyrical episodes. The piano alternates between a rĂ´le as loquacious soloist and a supporting member of the ensemble, as though portraying characters now prominently encountered, now subsumed in the crowd. The music is based on tonality, with an emphasis on rich chordal textures, and the same might also be said of The Density of Memory, also a large single movement work which uses a group of 3 clarinets as a single polyphonic soloist in an active dialogue in which a particular sonority underpins the whole, the 'memory' of the title. St Vincent's sets the composer's arrangements of texts of St Vincent DePaul (1581-1660) in a pungent harmonic idiom that nonetheless pays tribute to Renaissance polyphony, underlined by the sonorous brass choir.

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