Tower - Copperwave [score]

American Brass Quintet
"State of the Art: the ABQ at 50"

https://www.summitrecords.com/release/state-of-the-art-the-abq-at-50-american-brass-quintet-2/

The title of the piece is Copperwave. What it means is that copper (in brass) creates a weighty (and heavy) motion and feeling that travels in waves (and circles) throughout the piece. Another more "background" story is that my father was a mining engineer and dealt with copper in some of his jobs in Latin America where the family lived for nine years - hence the "conga" rhythm.

Copperwave was commissioned for the American Brass Quintet by The Juilliard School for its Centennial Celebration. This commission was supported by the Trust of Francis Goelet.

Copperwave is recorded by the American Brass Quintet on Summit Records on the CD State of the Art: The ABQ at 50.
Known and admired for her bold and energetic music, Joan Tower is one of America’s most successful and best-known composers of concert music. Her first orchestral work, Sequoia, has remained in the repertoire, with performances by the orchestras of Saint Louis, New York, San Francisco, Minnesota, Tokyo NHK, and Toronto, as well as the National Symphony and London’s Philharmonic. Tower’s tremendously popular five Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman have been played by more than 400 different ensembles. Since 1972, Tower has taught at Bard College, where she is Asher Edelman Professor of Music. She is composer-in-residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a title she also held for eight years at the Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. The first woman ever to receive the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Composition (1990), she was inducted in 1998 into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2004 into the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
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