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String Quartet Nº 3 / Michael Fine
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
Symphony Nº 10 / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-c 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp str
De bergen : drie monomotivische stukken voor orkest, 1982 / Karel Mengelberg
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp str
Petite sérénade : pour orchestre, 1967, révision 1980 / Johan Weegenhuise
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2200 str
composition
At the Gate : Overture for orchestra / Michael Fine
Other authors:
Fine, Michael
(Composer)
Description:
This orchestral overture has nothing to do with airports. While my friends may easily make this assumption due to the peripatetic nature of my work as a recording producer, this particular gate is the entry to the beautiful Deoksugang Palace in Seoul. Although surrounded by modern buildings, the Gate opens to the graceful and elegant palace grounds taking one back to another Korea before western influences helped shape the modern country. The overture reflects both worlds, an overture to an imaginary Korean drama telling a story of two different times but connected by a common thread. The piece begins with the hectic bustle of today’s Seoul but is quickly left behind as one passes through the gate to the serene gardens of the palace grounds with a bassoon solo singing a wordless melody, accompanied by the harp.
Michael Fine