Stephen Stucky
Ad Parnassum
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Stephen Stucky
Ad Parnassum
- Instrumentation Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion
- Composer Stephen Stucky
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Theodore Presser Company
- Order no. PRES144-40684
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Description:
Written for the 30th anniversary of Boston Musica Viva (1998); Ad Parnassum is a single-movement construct of murky; mysterious tone. Stucky slowly builds his material in tension; layering motifs and falling back; building and falling back; until finally reaching a hammering crescendo; then quietly fading back into the ether. Steven Stucky conducts Ensemble X (a contemporary music group he co-founded in 1997) in Ad Parnassum; as it appears on the Albany album In Shadow; In Light