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- George Lewis
The Faculty of Sensing (2024)
- C.F. Peters Corporation (World)
Commissioned by The City of Tomorrow in cooperation with the Blair Wind Quintet (Vanderbilt University), the Western Wind Quintet (Western Michigan University), Wingra Wind Quintet (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and the Oregon Wind Quintet (University of Oregon). Premiered by The City of Tomorrow, Louisiana State University, February 7, 2024.
Programme Note
For his quintet's title, George Lewis looked to the work of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an 18th-century African slave who became a Ph.D. of philosophy and taught at the European universities of Halle and Jena. Amo wrote that the body, not the mind, has the 'faculty of sensing.'
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