Elegy (Separation) (1992)
John McLandress, flugelhorn
Lisa Morrison, violin
Caitlin Curran, oboe
Marcy Mirkin, clarinet
duration : 5:10
On the Elegy download page, you'll find an MP3 of the original performance, which occurred at The Festival at Sandpoint, with the personnel listed above performing. I composed the piece there, in Sandpoint, Idaho, after learning out of nowhere that I'd be in Nashville during the coming year while Vivian, my wife of only a year at the time, would be in Pittsburgh. It was a very sad time, and all I could think to compose was something that reflected that sadness. So, an Elegy, but not of the usual sort.
I later adapted this movement as the middle movement of a piece for string orchestra with flugelhorn solo, commissioned and premiered by the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.
JHM
1/28/09
