Pigs & Fishes
Martin Bresnick
About this work:
Tucket, Follow Your Leader, and Pigs & Fishes are the first 3 "Operas" in a series of 12 Opere della Musica Povera - or "Works of a Poor Music". Tucket is an older English version of the Italian Toccata. Often associated with keyboard pieces of a technically virtuoso character, "Tuckets" were also sometimes written for other instrumental ensembles. Follow Your Leader is the ambiguous motto of Herman Melville's short story "Benito Cereno". Pigs & Fishes, cited in the 61st hexagram of the I Ching are considered animals of great intractability.
Tucket, Follow Your Leader, and Pigs & Fishes were commissioned by the Arts Council of New Haven and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Year composed: 1993
Duration: 00:05:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Other Combinations, 6-9 players
Instrumentation: 1 Flute, 1 Clarinet, 1 Bassoon, 1 Baritone Saxophone, 1 Percussion (General), 1 Piano, 1 Violin, 1 Synthesizer
Instrumentation notes: Instrumentation requires WX synthesizer.