Dr. Kevin George will participate in the Composers Forum during the festival, and will discuss this and other works. An arrangement of the popular African American hymn. An ABA arrangement of the South Africa s National Anthem, which incidentally, has become symbolic for all of Africa. Programmatic work, very percussive. Sparsely atonal, but with sensitive melodic lines for strings and brass.
Work is heavily percussive, multiple meter.
Programmatic piece, punctuated by a passionate sketches by solo cello. The Partita for Strings composed in 1983 is in 5 movements. All movements are based on the same thematic material. This cyclical thematic treatment allows the listener to be aware of the many levels of continuous development and variation. The Partita was first performed on a radio broadcast in Los Angeles on KPFK-FM in 1983 conducted by Bill Henderson.