Darwin's Dream: The Music of Elliott Schwarz

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Schwartz pioneered electronic music - he wrote a Listener's Guide - and Darwin's Dream is one of the most entertaining and consistently fascinating pieces in this medium. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012

Release Date: 1st Jan 2012
Catalogue No: TROY1266
Label: Albany
Length: 67 minutes

Schwartz, Elliott: String Quartet No. 2 - For Louise and Aaron

Work length19:20

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The Borromeo String Quartet
Ithaca College Wind Ensemble
Stephen Peterson

Schwartz, Elliott: Summer's Journey

Work length18:14

$3.00

$4.20

Elizabeth Shuhan, Alex Shuhan
Ithaca College Wind Ensemble
Stephen Peterson

Sunrise With Seascape

Track length8:47

$1.50

$2.10

Twilight Arrival

Track length9:27

$1.50

$2.10

Schwartz, Elliott: Darwin's Dream

Work length30:19

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Elliott Schwartz
Ithaca College Wind Ensemble
Stephen Peterson

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Born in 1936, the eminent American composer Elliott Schwartz has had a distinguished career as a composer, professor and writer. He is the Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus at Bowdoin College, where he taught from 1964 to 2007. His music has been performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world and he has held visiting appointments at Oxford University, the Royal Danish Academies, and the Rotterdam and Amsterdam Conservatories, among many others. His style is marked by a fondness for unsynchronized layers of activity, highly dramatic — even theatrical — gestures, and brilliant instrumental colors. Although the three works on this recording appear to be widely contrasted in certain surface ways, they also share important features. Each was conceived as the response to a personal experience and each explores a layering of textures.

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February 2012

Schwartz pioneered electronic music - he wrote a Listener's Guide - and Darwin's Dream is one of the most entertaining and consistently fascinating pieces in this medium.

Darwin's Dream: The Music of Elliott Schwarz

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