Date: 1974
Instrumentation: soprano saxophone, piano
Commission: John Sampen for the 4th World Saxophone Congress
Dedication: To John Sampen for the Fourth World Saxophone Congress
Premiere: World Saxophone Congress. John Sampen, saxophone. Marilyn Shrude, piano. Bordeaux, France. July 1974
Duration: 8′
Publication: contact composer
Review: “She and her incredibly talented husband, John Sampen (who had given the best kind of saxophone recital on the Piccolo series the afternoon before), began the concert with an exquisite performance of an avant-garde work for piano and soprano saxophone that had the audience frozen in fascination, a state in which they remained throughout most of the rest of the concert of her works. And when you can that kind of uncompromising music and hold most of your audience in a major, though mostly conservative festival, that is a real compositional accomplishment. ” David Maves. Piccolo Spoleto Festival. May 1982.