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Article Excerpt
Eric Ewazen. Sonata for Horn and Piano. San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Company, c1998. [Note on the composer, front cover verso; score, 47 p.; and part. SMC SU338. $20.]
Eric Ewazen. Sonata for Trombone and Piano. San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Company, c1998. [Note on the composer, front cover verso; score, 47 p.; and part. SMC SU339. $20.]
Eric Ewazen. Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Company, c1997. [Note on the composer, front cover verso; score, 44 p.; and part. SMC SU337. $20.]
Born in 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio, composer--pianist Eric Ewazen studied at the Eastman School of Music (B.M. 1976), the Tanglewood Music Festival, and the Juilliard School (D.M.A. 1980) under several composers including Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, and Joseph Schwantner. Since 1980, he has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty (for more on the composer, including many recorded examples of his music mentioned and discussed in this review, see Ewazen's Web site at http://www.ericewazen.com/newsite/, and more recent information and a list of works at the Stanton Management Web site at http://www.stantonmgt.com/Composers/ewazen-new.htm [and an earlier list at http://www.stantonmgt.com/Composers/ewazen.htm], plus Michael Ethen's September 2004 "Interview with Eric Ewazen," ComposersOnline.org 7 [November 2004], http://www.composersonline.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49 [all accessed 24 November 2004]).
Ewazen is currently one of the most performed living composers of music for brass instruments. His works are well-received, and he is often commissioned by important individual brass players, ensembles, and organizations (such as the New York Brass Quintet and the International Trumpet Guild) to compose pieces for them. The wealth of his music for brass is evident from a list of these compositions, which in addition to the three sonatas here under review (and excluding arrangements of other works) include: other pieces for various brass instruments and piano (Prayer and Praise [2002] and Ballade...
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