THREE SHORT FANTASIES

The composition of Three Short Fantasies spans eight years. The first, fluently sketched in 1963, was evoked by the mysterious sonority if Stavinsky's Symphonies for Wind Instruments. This Fantasie is dedicated to friends, P and B, under the title Piccole Armonie.
The New Fantasies (1991) are shards from the kiln, so to speak. While at the American Academy in Rome as Composer-in-Residence for the spring of 1991, I was completing a piece for the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and another for DaCapo, the New York based chamber ensemble. The inexorable deadlines seemed to be approaching with increasing speed ans I needed to work with total concentration. Outside diversions were few, but inner digressions proliferated (...).
Sixty Points of Light was composed for Michael Putnam, Professor of Classics at Brown University, as a greeting on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. I imagined the archangel Michael dispatching sixty of his legions to fight the devil.

Lista utworów:
NEW FANTASIES - Addio, Addio Roma (Wyner Yehudi)
NEW FANTASIES - Dalla Cappella al Casino (Wyner Yehudi)
NEW FANTASIES - Delirium Breve (Wyner Yehudi)
NEW FANTASIES - From the Flow (Wyner Yehudi)
NEW FANTASIES - Stracchio Vecchio (Wyner Yehudi)
POST FANTASIES - L'Auberge de l'Ill (Wyner Yehudi)
POST FANTASIES - Mano a Mano (Wyner Yehudi)
POST FANTASIES - Sauce 180 (Wyner Yehudi)
POST FANTASIES - Sixty Points of Light (Wyner Yehudi)
POST FANTASIES - The Hanover Ketubah (Wyner Yehudi)
POST FANTASIES - Three-fingered Don (Wyner Yehudi)
THREE SHORT FANTASIES - Short Fantasy 1 (Wyner Yehudi)
THREE SHORT FANTASIES - Short Fantasy 2 (Wyner Yehudi)
THREE SHORT FANTASIES - Short Fantasy 3 (Wyner Yehudi)