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A native of New York City, Allen Brings received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Queens College and a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, where he was a Mosenthal Fellow and a student of Otto Luening, and a doctorate in theory and composition from Boston University, where he was …
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Suite for Solo Piano (2008) consists of three short pieces. The first, Gestures, was my attempt to musically depict various physical motions made by people. I tried to capture everything from the shrugging of one's shoulders to hair flipping. None of the gestures are marked in the score, since I want both the performer and audience to be active participants in imagining which various "gestures" could possibly correspond to each musical gesture. Little Minuet is dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and employs his 12-tone method. The rhythms suggest a Viennese minuet. The piece is also a strict canon by inversion. Resonances explores ways of enabling the piano to act as a "resonant space" wherein musical events spinning out from various combinations of tones become enhanced by the sympathetic vibrations of unarticulated piano strings. Resonances requires the performer to have a friend assist in playing the final few chords since they span too great a registral distance for one pianist to play as indicated without resorting to arpeggiation.
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