Winter Music

for Seventeen Players (2005)

Premiered at the Kilbourn Hall of the Eastman School of Music by the Composers’ Sinfonietta.

Program Notes:

This piece was inspired by the only haiku known by Kajiwara Hashin (1864-?), quite
famous outside Japan, but not well known in his home country. The full haiku in English
translation is quoted below:
No sky, no earth - but still, snowflakes fall

Instrumentation: fl. dbl. picc., ob., B-fl. cl., bsn., hrn., tpt., tbn., 2 perc., harp, 2 vln., vla., vc., cb.
Duration: c. 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Premiere: February 9, 2005

Score Sample: Winter Music (pg. 17-19)
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Performances:

February 9th, 2005

Winter Music, for Seventeen Players (2005)

Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY)

Composers Sinfonietta

Vera Ivanova,composer

Winter Music

for Seventeen Players (2005)

Vera Ivanova,
composer