Brick Symphony

Year: 1997

Heading: for orchestra

Movement Titles:
I. Heavy, forceful
II. With melancholy
III. Pointed and intense
IV. Fierce and energetic

First Performance:
14 January 1998
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Alasdair Neale

Instrumentation: 3.2.corA.2.Ebcl.bcl.2—4.4.3.1—timp—strings

Duration: 40'

Press:
Hints of pop have all but vanished; hints of Beethoven are much stronger. Indeed, there are startling surreal moments in these four movements, when it sounds as though a young Beethoven somehow found himself in the wrong century and was trying to write his music with modern techniques. —Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

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