Work Information
| Publisher |
Associated Music Publishers Inc |
Category |
Solo Works (excluding keyboard) |
| Year Composed |
1976 |
Duration |
7 Minutes |
| Orchestration |
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| Score(s): |
50228190 |
Score(s): |
GS22819 |
Programme Note
Composer Note:
PLATINUM SPIRALS (1977) was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and dedicated to the memory of my father, who was a geologist and mining engineer. Platinum is a mineral whose internal properties reveal a very malleable and flexible set of characteristics. It is said that an ounce of platinum can be stretched into a mile. A lot of this piece is about the stretching of lines of ten upward in “spirals.” Other times, there is a quiet kind of “rocking” pattern that “holds” the action in place.
—Joan Tower
Reviews
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Solo violin pieces start with a built-in advantage: they sound almost inherently concentrated and pure. That was how Joan Tower’s “Platinum Spirals” (1976) sounded Tuesday night, full of intense private passion.
John Rockwell, The New York Times, 02/08/1984
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