{"product_id":"susman-exchanges-sp-b-v-p-fl-cl-tpt-tn-btn-os","title":"Susman-Exchanges (SP)-B\/V\/P\/FL\/CL\/TPT\/TN\/BTN OS","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePercussive Arts Society award winner Exchanges by William Susman was first premiered by soloist Tom Rance (at the time a graduate student of Anthony Cirone) at San Jose State University in 1987. This work features the percussionist and in many ways is a virtuosic percussion concerto with a small wind ensemble of flute, clarinet, trumpet and two trombones. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work won a Percussive Arts Society award in 1982. Written when he was 21, Susman sets a multi-percussionist solo against winds and brass. The percussion set-up includes a variety of suspended cymbals, drums, vibraphone, glockenspiel, tambourine, guiro and wind-chimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn some ways Exchanges is a minature of his earlier orchestral work Movement for Orchestra (1981). Both works imbue European Formalistic tendencies. Here Susman showed influences from Webern in his pointillistic gestures as well as Penderecki and Xenakis with a predominance of glissandi. The winds and brass instrumentation set against percussion is reminiscent of Varese.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work and others from his early period such as Floating Falling (1987) for cello \u0026amp; timpani and, Openings (1982) for chamber orchestra use graph paper to layout the pitch material. The \"music\" on the graph paper are a series of lines representing pitch and duration much like a \"piano roll\" or the way in which nowadays a computer software sequencer's piano roll view appears. He then, orchestrated the lines, giving them timbre, dynamics, and gesture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortly after this work was composed he was awarded a graduate fellowship at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in 1982.","brand":"Steve Weiss Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43826854232118,"sku":"SUSMANEXCH","price":37.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/3055\/1350\/files\/susman-exchanges-sp-b-v-p-fl-cl-tpt-tn-btn-os.jpg?v=1773481917","url":"https:\/\/www.steveweissmusic.com\/products\/susman-exchanges-sp-b-v-p-fl-cl-tpt-tn-btn-os","provider":"Steve Weiss Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}