This score is epic! I am thrilled to get more totally brand new ideas about chamber music for our commissions! Actually, I’m not sure if Jonathan’s ideas are very new or very old, based in music traditions I don’t fully understand. I can’t wait to talk to him some more about this piece. Jonathan presented some beautiful pieces at L/S in Brooklyn and we spent many days in rehearsals there for Clarinet & Synthesizers and Cattle in the Woods and several other crazy pieces.
Jonathan’s Short Stories is fifteen intense 25-80 second movements. He writes “the instructions and rhythm notation conventions used are intended to force us to agree on a unique performance practice.”
Almost every note is ornamented in some way, with many lines in unison throughout the ensemble. Short Stories, for flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, violin, bass and vibraphone, is going to test our limits as an ensemble and take us to some seriously new places.
More about Jonathan here: http://jonathanmarmor.com/
Animal Play performed by ensemble Mimitabu
