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Programme Note

Three Dance Sketches by Karel Husa were recently released on CD “Contemporary Czech Music for Percussion” by the Prague Percussion Project. Composed in 1979, the Three Dance Sketches were commissioned by the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors and premiered in 1980 at the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) in Miami Beach, Florida by the University of Tennessee Percussion Ensemble.

—Department of Music, Cornell University, 1995