grunt work for the avant-garde
Andrea La Rose
About this work:
grunt work for the avant-garde was written backwards. First I swiped the movement titles from a fund-raising letter I was folding. Then I wrote the last movement. I took a snippet from the last movement and used that to write the third movement. Then I took a snippet from the third movement and used it to write the second movement. And so on. This piece is dedicated to John Wriggle. I dig his trombone and compositional stylings and allowed that appreciation to drive the music making process in my piece. My former boss knows that I appreciated all the grunt work.
Year composed: 2006
Duration: 00:12:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice
Instrumentation: 1 Clarinet, 1 Trombone, 1 Accordion, 1 Violin, 1 Cello
Instrumentation notes: trombone is a featured soloist; accordion is stradella