Sampson - Morning Music [score]

American Brass Quintet
"New American Brass"
Summit Records
January 1, 1992

Raymond Mase, Trumpet,
Christopher Gekker, Trumpet
David Wakefield, French Horn
Michael Powell, Trombone
John D. Rojak, Trombone (Bass)

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David Sampson (b. 1951)

David Sampson is an American composer that makes his teaching, performing, and composing career in New York. Sampson has rapidly established himself as one of the outstanding composers of his generation. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Hunter College, Manhattan School of Music and the Ecoles d'Art Américaines, where his teachers included Karel Husa, Henri Dutilleux and John Corigliano for composition, and Gerard Schwarz, Gilbert Johnson, Robert Nagel and Raymond Mase for trumpet. His choral, orchestral, solo and chamber ensemble works are performed and recorded regularly around the world by celebrated soloists, ensembles and orchestras. He belongs to a small group of contemporary composers who have followed an autonomous path to success, recognition and, most importantly, the admiration and respect of the musicians performing and championing their work. Currently, he is currently Director of Music at the Brookside Community Church in Brookside, New Jersey and a member of the music department at Randolph Middle and High Schools in Randolph, New Jersey.

Morning Music for brass quintet was written during the summer of 1986 for the American Brass Quintet. It is a sequel to a previous work of mine titled In Memoriam: W.E.S. for woodwind quintet written in 1981 and premiered by the Dorian Wind Quintet. The subject of that piece was the murder of my brother, William Evan Sampson, by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis in 1979.

Morning Music deals with my thoughts and feelings seven years later. As you will hear, the anguish over the death is as intense as ever, but strength and hope will gradually emerge from the despair. The work is one movement with clearly delineated sections ending with a fast-paced coda. I have dedicated Morning Music to my mother, Betty Sampson, whose optimism and resiliency have been an inspiration to me.

Morning Music is a neo-romantic atonal work, highly emotional and moving. Sampson's quintet was written as a one-movement piece with five main sections followed by a coda. It contains a wide variety of meters changes, but in most cases, the eighth note remains constant. Stopped horn and one flutter-tongued note in the trumpet and horn parts are also employed in this composition.

Program Notes from https://www.brassquintetrep.com/d-sampson-morning-music

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