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Concertante

Instrumentation: 3 (3rd pic)-3-3-3, 4-3-3-1, timp, 3 perc, pf, str
Duration: 10 1/2 minutes

"Desiring to showcase the principal players and sections that comprise a modern symphonic ensemble, Mr. Paulus has incorporated
into hs work numerous solo passages and colorful, quickly changing timbres...as 'a kind of miniature concerto for orchestra.'
...Stephen Paulus' melodious and acessible music has made him on the most successful young composers of the American musical scene.
--Paul Schiano, Program Notes from New Haven Symphony Orchestra

"...[a] piece full of virtuostic bustle that nicely showed off the orchestra's expertise."
--Shirly Fleming, New York Post

"Mr Paulus supplied a likable, wonderfully functional 10 1/2 minutes curtain raiser. Scores in a traditional,
lightly dissonant idiom and cast in three sections, the work makes fairly democratic demands on each of the orchestra's departments.
The outersections, in fact, seem tailor-made for an audiophile recording with their dynamic dwells, high-contrast brass and percussion
bursts and quickly shifting string and wind textures. The central section, for strings alone, was rendered with a rich silken tone."
--Allan Kozinn, The New York Times


Publisher: Paulus Publications
Recordings: New World Records 363-2, Atlanta Symphony, Yoel Levi

Performances: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and on their Southeast U.S. Tour, Kansas City Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Macon Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony, Monterey Symphony

Commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and
Meet the Composer Orchestra Residency Program

World Premiere: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, April 27-29, 1989
Conductor: Yoel Levi