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Database: Notations / Scores
Category: Play In Small Groups
Sub category: 9 and more Woodinstruments
Art.-No.: 1317147
Title of composition: REFLECTIONS: SERENADE NO. 2
Composer: WOOLFENDEN, GUY
Kind of orchestra: 2 FLT / 2 OB / 2 CLR / 2 HRN / 2 FAG
Publisher: ARIEL MUSIC PUBLISHERS
Duration: 10:00
Price in EUR: (exkl. Mwst) current market price
Additional information: I. ALLEGRO MODERATO
II. ANDANTE ESPRESSIVO IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM WATERHOUSE
III. ANDANTE CON MOTO: ALLEGRO SUBITO

Shortly after I began work in earnest on Reflections, my second serenade for wind dectet, the great English bassoonist, William Waterhouse, died. We attended the same school (Whitgift in South Croydon), and I followed his remarkable career as he climbed to the top of the profession both as a performer and a teacher. He was loved by all for his wit, wisdom and scholarship.

The second movement begins and ends with a bassoon solo in Bill’s memory. The outer movements which frame this ‘In memoriam’ are reflections on the witty, humorous side of Bill and my own memories of a happy childhood with musical parents - my father led a dance band and my mother was the daughter of a church organist and sang rather well.

Reflections was commissioned by Simon Payne and the Oxford Sinfonia, to whom the work is dedicated with affection. The first performance took place at St Mary’s Church, High Street, Oxford on 26th April 2008.
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