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Scoring

Orchestra I:0.0.0.ssax.asax.0-2.2.2.1-perc(1-2):4lg wdbl-pft;
Orchestra II:as orchestra I;
Orchestra III:1(=afl).2afl(II=fl)-2elec.harps(or elec.keyboards)-bass gtr-
hammond org(lg)-perc(1):BD/2sm.tom-t-strings(min:4.0.3.3.2,db=5str);
Orchestra I-II:trumpets, saxophones and pianos are electronically amplified;
Orchestra III:all instruments balanced by electronic amplification

Tech Requirements
This work requires additional technological components and/or amplification, for more information please contact composers.uk@boosey.com

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Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

Availability

World Premiere
1/11/1984
Davies Hall, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Symphony / Edo de Waart
Press Quotes

"Throughout, like an uncontrollable clock, the high-pitched wooden percussion rattles on faster and faster, constantly objectified, contradicted even, by a set of simultaneous but apparently independent musical processes." De Volkskrant

Subjects
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