Byron Petty's music is modern, incorporating 20th/21st-century classical art music techniques like continuous development, atonal gestures, and complex cross-rhythms.
Composition History
Peter Homans's piece "Bridges" was the first he wrote after a period of not composing, representing a bridge between his past and current compositional styles.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Byron Petty's compositions are abstract and not programmatic, primarily written in two styles he calls 'Fringe Tonality' and 'Lyrical Neo Complexist'.
Composer Biography
Peter Homans worked as Assistant Business Manager and Principal Musical Assistant for Leonard Bernstein before spending 30 years in the financial industry.
Composer Biography
Robert Stewart (1918-1995), a composer on this album, served as Professor of Music at Washington and Lee University from 1954 to 1988.
Performer Biography
Emmanuel Feldman, a cellist on this album, was nominated for a 2008 Grammy award for his solo CD "Rider on The Plains" featuring Virgil Thomson's Cello Concerto.
Composer Biography
Peter Homans, a composer featured on this album, won the first-ever Aaron Copland Prize for Composition during his fellowships at Tanglewood.
