Marimolin (1986), by Thomas Oboe Lee

Marimolin (1986)

by Thomas Oboe Lee

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	1.	Part I 02:32
	2.	Part II 04:07
	3.	Part III 04:54

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Marimolin, commissioned and dedicated to Nancy Zeltsman and Sharan Leventhal, is a work in three parts in the familiar "fast-slow-fast" format of a classical concerto. In fact, it is loosely based on one aspect of Stravinsky's "Concerto in Ré" (1946) for string orchestra in that the first movement, in triple meter, and the last movement, in duple meter, are written at the same metronome marking of 1/4 = 126. The middle movement, slow and moto cantabile, is the centerpiece and focal point of the entire work. The concerto character is preserved in Marimolin not only by the timbral contrast between the marimba and the violin, but by the soloistic roles that each instrument is asked to perform. Consequently, the contrapuntal nature of the work is revealed and intensified.

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released December 2, 2018

Sharan Leventhal, violin
Nancy Zeltsman, marimba

Recorded in Houghton Chapel @ Wellesley College
Wellesley, Massachusetts
January 4, 1988
John Newton, audio engineer
Amelia Rogers, digital editing

Drawing by Alan Gussow for TOL
1/24/87 @ the AAR

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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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