Tunesmith ... An American Beauty Pageant (1993)

by Thomas Oboe Lee

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	1.	Kris ... Minor blues 04:31
	2.	Monique ... Mad scherzo 02:22
	3.	Denise ... With sadness 04:25
	4.	Diane ... Soaring 04:49

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Tunesmith ... (1993) was jointly commissioned by the Paul Chou-Paul Salerni Duo with a grant from the Weinstock Artist-in-residence Fund and the Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg Theater with funds from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

The four-movement work is inspired by the "classical" violin-piano sonatas of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy and Stravinsky, and with deep affection for jazz-violinists like Joe Venuti, Ray Nance and Stuff Smith. The end-result is a work fusing musical ideas from the Old World with ideas from the New. Although each movement has a very distinctive "style" or "sound" of its own, and not necessarily related to each other, the whole presents, I hope, a "narrative" the listener can follow with pleasure and no difficulty. The form is quite "conventional" in the 19th-century Romantic four-movement sonata mold.

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released May 11, 2017

Leonard Fu, violin
Chenyang Xu, piano

Music by Thomas Oboe Lee

Recorded in the Fraser Studio @ WGBH
March 2, 2017
Antonio Oliart, audio engineer and editor

Photo credit: Thomas Oboe Lee

YouTube link: youtu.be/AD7Puhsftew

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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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