The Devil's Dictionary (oboe and cello)
Chamber Music
2019, 3 movements, 8 mins.
Magnolia Music Press
The Devil’s Dictionary was commissioned by and is dedicated to Dr. Mark Ostoich, Professor of Oboe at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Each of the work’s three movements was inspired by a word definition found in Ambrose Bierce’s sardonic lexicon “The Devil’s Dictionary”. The first movement, “Dawn”, evokes the strange sounds heard as the sun rises. “Fiddle” was inspired by the fiddling of the great Louisiana Creole fiddler Canray Fontenot. The final short movement, “Circus”, is my little homage to the greatest work ever written for dancing elephants: Igor Stravinsky’s “Circus Polka”.
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The Devil’s Dictionary
Hambidge Quavers (oboe and bassoon)
Chamber Music
1989, 1 movement, 9 mins.
Theodore Presser Co.
Hambidge Quavers is a one-movement work in three main sections. The first section (Molto Allegro) introduces and develops a melody first stated in the oboe. The second section (Meno Mosso) begins by superimposing a tranquil melody in the oboe over a nervous, staccato figure in the bassoon. The last section (Presto) reintroduces some ideas from the first section and makes use of two new melodies. Hambidge Quavers was commissioned and premiered by Mark Ostoich and William Ludwig.
Opus One 154
Mark Ostoich, oboe,
William Ludwig, bassoon
Hambidge Quavers
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