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Composers > Jean Hasse > Chamber Ensembles / Solo Instruments
Jean Hasse - Chamber Ensembles / Solo Instruments
| Are you sitting down? Are you facing a door? (1992) (10:00) > |
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| two trombones (with optional reverb) |
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Premiere: 25 June 1992, Longy School of Music, Cambridge
Mark Hetzler / John Faeta
JHVM 140 order |
Collections Considered (2006) (3:00) > |
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| violin |
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Premiere: 7 June 2006, British Museum, Enlightenment Gallery
Peter Sheppard Skaerved
JHVM 151 order |
| Five Poems from the Japanese (1991) (10:00)>> |
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mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano
Text: Japanese poets from 9thC, 11thC, 12thC, 20thC,
translated by Kenneth Rexroth (Engl.)
Premiere: 31 October 1991, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge MA
Soli Espri Trio
VM 07 order |
Flip (2006) (4:00) > >>
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Premiere: 7 March 2006, St George’s Concert Hall, Bristol
Apollo Saxophone Quartet, Goldberg Ensemble / Malcolm Layfield, cond.
JHVM 141 order |
| Her dream, His shadow (1988) (8:00) |
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two alto saxophones and two trumpets
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Premiere: 17 November 1988, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
Real Art Ways performers
JHVM 142 order |
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| Ich bin, du bist (1997) (10:30)> > |
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| string quartet |
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Premiere: 26 May 1997, Brno Conservatory, Czech Republic
Wallinger Quartet
JHVM 143 order |
| Moths - for a few hundred whistlers (1986) (ca. 11:00)> |
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| audience with conductor (ca.8:00 practice; ca.3:00 performance) |
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Premiere: 24 July 1986, Sanders Theater, Cambridge MA
Composers in Red Sneakers audience / Jean Hasse
JHVM 105 order |
| Never Fail Fudge (1998) (1:20) |
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saxophone quartet
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JHVM 144 order |
| New music doesn't grow on trees (1985) (6:30) |
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| two electric guitars and digital delay system |
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Premiere: 13 December 1985, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
Sue Burkhardt / Ken Parille
JHVM 145 order |
Next Dance (1999) (3:00)>> > |
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| piano quartet or two violins, cello, piano |
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Premiere: 16 June 1999, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon, England
Wiltshire Schools students
JHVM 146 order |
| "Oh" (1986, rev.1995) (0:14) |
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| five players (winds and/or strings plus piano) |
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Premiere: 30 July 1987, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge MA
Composers in Red Sneakers
Premiere (revised version): 23 September 1998, St Nazaire, France
Festival Consonance performers
JHVM 147A (winds and/or stgs, pno) order
JHVM 147B (stg qt, pno) order |
| Pulling (1985) (9:15)> >> |
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| four flutes or as many flutes as possible |
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Premiere: 13 December 1985, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
Jean Hasse, flutes (some pre-recorded)
VM 05 order |
| Start the Week (2003) (2:30)> > |
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flute, clarinet, soprano sax, trombone, piano, electric bass, drums
JHVM 148 order |
| Then again (2000) (10:00)>> |
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| strings and percussion |
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Premiere: 29 May 2000, Holyrood Hall, Chard, Somerset, England
Solid Strings / Jean Hasse, cond.
Commissioned by Chard Festival of Women in Music
JHVM 149 order |
| Tuning (1989, rev.1998) (10:00) |
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| flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano ('piano tuner') |
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Premiere: 12 October 1989, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge MA
Composers in Red Sneakers players / Jean Hasse, cond.
Premiere (revised version): 26 September 1998, St Nazaire, France, Festival Consonance
Philippa Davies / Michael Collins / Philipe Graffin / Gary Hoffman / Frédéric Chiu / Jean Hasse, cond.
JHVM 150 order |
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Jean Hasse Compositions
- Amateur ensembles /
- Graphic scores
- Brass ensembles
- Chamber ensembles /
- Solo instruments
- Percussion solo and
--ensembles
- Piano
- Vocal / Choral
press quotes
Next Dance
"A gently syncopated movement of graceful melody that grows to a punchy coda."
www.classicalsource.com, Spring 2001, review of
The White Room CD
Pulling
"...a work transcribed
from a live recording of
a quasi-improvised,
quasi-composed piece originally conceived for flute and tape. It's dreamy and new age with soothing melodic snippets grounded by a low D pedal tone."
- The Boston Globe,
March 1990
"Pulling is an innovative textural work designed for at least four flutes ... the effect is rather like that of a strong, constant wind blowing through tall reeds."
- International Record Review, June 2000
Moths - for a few hundred whistlers
"Hasse possesses a
witty sonic imagination.
With audience participation, her 1986 Moths amplifies different pitches and rhythms
of many puckered lips making music. The effect is stunning."
- The Hartford Courant, December 1987
"In particular, Moths captivated the audience. Jean Hasse showed them how to read the score for the music, and after a few quick lessons,
the children followed the composer's hands very well... She could not have asked for a more accommodating group,
as the children, lips dramatically puckered, whistled according to the conductor's directions, creating a piece with an evocative if not spooky sound. Pleased with themselves, the children broke into thunderous applause at the conclusion."
- The Berkshire Eagle,
July 1995, after a Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra family concert |
