Dance Of The Polar Bears
 
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Composed in: 2007
Instrumentation: bassoon quartet (4th bassoon doubles on contra bassoon)
Duration: 10 minutes
Publisher: Doblinger Music Publishers, Vienna, Austria (catalog # 06 367)
Commissioned by:

international consortium of bassoonists: Carolyn Beck, Charles Coker, Rose Corrigan, Mark Eubanks, Judith farmer, Julie Feves, Amy Gillick, Nadina Mackie-Jackson & Fraser Jackson, Benjamin Kamins, Jeffrey Lyman, Richard Meek, Richard ramey, Carl Rath, Hugh Rosenbaum, Allen Smith, Robert Stein, John Steinmetz, Maya Stone.

 
Premiere Performance: 02/04/2008 at the University of Southern California (West Coast Premiere) by Judith Farmer, Benjamin Yingst, Rose Corrigan and Paul Curtis.
   

Score and parts are available through Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc., your local music store, or can be downloaded in pdf format at music2print.

REVIEW

Ron Klimko, The Double Reed
         
"This is a wonderful addition to the bassoon quartet literature, difficult, but well within the capabilities of a talented quartet. You must have it in your bassoon quartet literature."

 

 
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