Northwest!
1988
Instrumentation
Orchestra
Duration
10'
Scoring
2(2Picc.) 2(2E.H.) 2(B.Cl.) 2 – 4 2 2 1; Timp. 2Perc. Str.
Theodore Presser
Northwest! is an attractive, vigorous work rooted in the populist tradition of Aaron Copland. It has an outdoorsy sound, with its expansive strings and pungent clashes of brass and percussion.
Recording
Excerpt 1: near the beginning
Excerpt 2: the end
Press Quote
an attractive, vigorous work rooted in the populist tradition of Aaron Copland...It has an outdoorsy sound, with its expansive strings and pungent clashes of brass and percussion.
Cincinnati Post