{"product_id":"read-tl-what-story-awaits-its-end","title":"Read, TL :: What Story Awaits Its End?","description":"\u003cspan class=\"NameInDesc\"\u003eWhat Story Awaits Its End?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ComposerInDesc\"\u003eRead, TL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas L. Read's What Story Awaits Its End?, for flute, clarinet in Bb doubling bass clarinet, and piano. A richly tonal and vivid continuous concert work, broken up into six internal movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the composer:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What Story Awaits Its End presents, in succession six contrasted compositions. Each has a different from, style and mood. The first five are all broken off, either in mid-phrase or just before an expected resolution or denouement. The sixth is a completed composition with a simple and unequivocal conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite such formal discontinuities and, also, lack of traditional tonality, I've tried fashion a musical totality; one that would, in the end, express a feeling of inevitability and arrival. I confess to having been inspired and challenged by a reading of Italo Calvino's novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. The work title, What Story..., is an adaption of a line form one of the ten very different interrupted stories that make up Calvino's novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutline of the form:\u003cbr\u003e I. The opening 'story' is a duet for flute and piano cast as a sonata exposition. \u003cbr\u003e II. A rather austere meditation for bass clarinet and piano.\u003cbr\u003e III. A contrapuntal trio in which an extended melody is very gradually assembled from seemingly unrelated motives.\u003cbr\u003e IV. An accompanied song by the flute with clarinet obbligato in a folkish style.\u003cbr\u003e V. A miniature rondo for the winds. Shortly, loud, clashing piano chords obliterate the duet.\u003cbr\u003e VI. A full-blown theme with five variations and brief coda.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuration: 14'. For advanced players. Includes score and parts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American Composers Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46968222843174,"sku":"ACAREAD028","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/3559\/5814\/products\/A00000ACAREAD028_d.jpg?v=1697506714","url":"https:\/\/www.flute4u.com\/products\/read-tl-what-story-awaits-its-end","provider":"Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}