Concerto Grosso (2017) for PACO ...

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1.	Introduction, Allegro 06:00
2.	Presto ... 04:52	buy track
3.	Largo 06:09	buy track

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Steve Laven, cellist with the Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, contacted me a month ago and asked if I would be interested in writing a work to help celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. I said, "Sure!!!" He said it would be nice if I would consider a "concerto grosso" in which the principal players of the orchestra would each get a feature. I agreed that that would be a fine idea.

So, on June 18th, 2017, I started working on it. And since I am on summer vacation from teaching I was able to finished the 557-measure work on July 2nd, fifteen days after I started.

In 2018 just before I made plans to get the work recorded I made some revisions. One major change was that I cut the fourth movement out completely. It is now a mere 482 measures long.

The work is in three movements.

1. Introduction; Allegro
2. Presto ... Craig McNutt, timpani solo
3. Largo

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released August 6, 2018

Gil Rose, music director
Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Recorded in the Fraser Studio @ WGBH
June 25, 2018

Antonio Oliart, audio engineer and editor

© Departed Feathers Music, Inc. - BMI

Photo credit: Thomas Oboe Lee

Alberto Burri's "Grande sacco" (1952), cropped.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
Rome, Italy

YouTube link: youtu.be/xIMSFEd0p8o

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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