جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
by Eddie Lewis
After several years of a waning interest in writing serious music,
Four Parables represents something of a sweet return. For reasons I
won’t divulge here, I had become extremely discouraged in my efforts as a
composer of serious music. Part of that, I believe, had something to do
with timing. I had just completed my best and most major work to date.
It was a brass quintet piece in seven movements based on The Lord’s
Prayer. Coming down from that high point in my writing career to face a
string of discouraging problems, I just lost the urge to write.
During
the years that followed, my compositional output slowed from an average
of twenty-five works per year to less than ten (with some years being much
less than ten). And of the compositions I was writing in those few
years after The Lord’s Prayer was completed, most of them were
novelties. I didn’t see the point in taking it all so seriously anymore
and wanted to compose music that was fun to write and even more fun to
perform.
Four Parables has been an effort to jump back on the
horse that bucked me. It began with me putting my proverbial "toe in the
water" when I wrote the original Four Parables as an unaccompanied
trumpet work. When I gave a copy of that original version of the piece
as a gift to Marie Speziale, she asked me something like, "don’t you
ever write anything easy?" Ha! So, my intention was to expand the solo
trumpet piece to six trumpets, thereby redistributing the technical
passages, making it less difficult, and offer it to her later as an
upgrade to the earlier gift.
Unfortunately, it took me over two
years to do this. In that time, Marie retired from Rice and I haven’t
seen her since. But still, it was Marie who inspired me to write the
trumpet ensemble version of the Four Parables, so it is right that I
dedicate it to her.