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- Joan Tower
Stepping Stones (1993)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
Commissioned for Milwaukee Ballet with funding from Meet-the-Composer's Composer/Choreographer Project.
- 2(pic).2.2.2/4.2.2.0/2perc/hp.pf(cel)/str
- 2pf
- 25 min
Programme Note
Joan Tower’s ballet Stepping Stones was commissioned by the Milwaukee Ballet in 1991.
Composer Note:
As a composer, I’ve always thought of myself as a closet choreographer. Texture, space, speed, direction, all the words that apply to dance also apply to music.
—Joan Tower
Note:
A recorded version for two-pianos and synthetic percussion exists.
Composer Note:
As a composer, I’ve always thought of myself as a closet choreographer. Texture, space, speed, direction, all the words that apply to dance also apply to music.
—Joan Tower
Note:
A recorded version for two-pianos and synthetic percussion exists.
Media
Two pianos
Scores
Reviews
Breath-taking....Stepping Stones was a double premiere: Joan Tower's music, with its quiet lyricism in a display of brass and percussion, was composed especially for the Posin choreography.
Stunning geometry, clever rhythms, inventive moves, striking shapes, athletic challenge....The main thing is the way all of this ebbs and flows with Joan Tower's rhythmically and harmonically muscular score to a climax more transcendant than passionate.
Discography
- LabelNew World Records
- Catalogue Number80470
- EnsembleDouble Edge
- SoloistEdmund Niemann and Nurit Tilles, pianos