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Construction in metal and wood, for piano and percussion
Written in 2001. One movement. Duration 13 minutes. Commissioned by the Aprodu-Miroglio Duo.
World Premiere performance October 18, 2001, at the University of Maryland.
"Richard Festinger's Construction in Metal and Wood, a virtuosic duo for piano
and percussion, veered from rambunctious to contemplative."
- the New York Times
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 31 pages
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Price: Score $14.00 Percussion part $10.00 Shipping $3.95
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Crossfire, for two percussionists
Written in 2000. One movement. Duration 12 minute. Commissioned by the Barlow
Foundation at Brigham Young University
for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. World Premiere performance
December 4, 2000, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco,
with Daniel Kennedy and William Wynant, percussion.
"...with its fiery passagework and finely detailed, intricate exchanges between
the players... this work has many strongly appealing qualities: it's both complex
and highly kinetic, sensitive to pure sound and imbued with forward momentum."
- San Francisco Classical Voice
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 30 pages
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Price: Score $14.00 Set of 2 percussion parts $20.00 Shipping $3.95
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Impromptu, for clarinet and piano
Written in 1985. Duration 9 minutes. World Premiere performance July 7, 1985, First Unitarian Church,
San Francisco, California, Peter Josheff, clarinet, and Karen Rosenak, piano.
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 24 pages
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Price: Score $12.00 Violin part $8.00 Shipping $3.95
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Peripeteia, for clariniet, violin and cello
Written in 1999. One movement. Duration 12 minutes. Commissioned by the Alter Ego Ensemble.
World Premiere May 11, 2002 by the New Millennium ensemble, Merkin Concert Hall, New York.
"Peripeteia... bursts into life from a sustained pitch, and seamlessly weaving in and out of the foreground
... the clarinet... creates the sensation of a bird flying through a vast array of clouds."
- Classical Voice of North Carolina
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 33 pages
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Price: Score $15.00 Set of parts $25.00 Shipping $3.95
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Sonata for Cello and Piano
Written in 1990. Commissioned by Laszlo Varga. World Premiere March 13, 1990, by Earplay,
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, with Laszlo Varga, cello
and Karen Rosenak, piano.
Currently Unavailable
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Tapestries, for violin, cello and piano
Written in 1997. Three Movements. Duration 15 minutes. Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky
Foundation in the Library of Congress for the Laurel Trio. World Premiere November 6, 1997,
by the Laurel Trio at the Festival of New American Music at Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California.
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 33 pages
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C.F.Peters Publishing
Price: Score $22.00
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The Way Things Go, for flute and piano
Written in 2005. Three movements. Duration 11 minutes. Commissioned by Tara Helen O'Connor
for a cd recording funded by an Avery Fisher Young Artist Award. World Premiere Performance June 25, 2011, Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah, with Carlton Vickers, flute, and Jed ????????, piano.
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 26 pages
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Price: Score $12.00 Flute part $25.00 Shipping $3.95
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To A Pilgrim
Written in 2011. Commissioned by John Sackett and Jean-Michel Fonteneau for the opening concert in a festival commemorating the life and work of composer Andrew Welsh Imbrie. Premiere performance March 25, 2011, on the Composers Inc. Series, Old First Church, San Francisco, California, with John Sackett, bass clarinet and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello.
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Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 13 pages
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Price: Score $25.00 Shipping $3.95
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Trionometry, for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, and piano
Written in 1996. Three movements. Duration 15 minutes. Commissioned by the Empyrean Ensemble at the
University of California in Davis. World Premiere performance April 13, 1996, by Tod Brody, flute,
Peter Josheff, clarinets, and Karen Rosenak, piano, at the Wyatt Pavillion, University of California, Davis.
"Richard Festinger's Trionometry was simply breathtaking... This technically
demanding tour de force begins with a delicate exposition which... eventually
explodes into a contrapuntal argument of grandiose proportions... like a multi-stage rocket
that - ignoring gravity - traverses the earth's atmosphere. Bravo!" - Twentieth Century Music
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 37 pages
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C.F.Peters Publishing
Price: Score $27.50 Parts rental only
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Twinning, for violin and piano
Written in 1994. Three movements. Duration 12 minutes. Commissioned by the California Association of Professional Music Teachers.
Second place winner of the Music Teachers National Association Annual Composers Competition.
World Premiere performance January 27, 1995, with Frederick Lifsitz, violin and Karen Rosenak,
piano, at the annual meeting of the the Music Teachers National Association in San Francisco, California.
Score: 8.5 x 11 Portrait format, 24 pages
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Price: Score $16.50
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