Profound Utterances for solo bassoon by Richard Wilson Profound Utterances is a suite of five somewhat whimsical character pieces that were written as a

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• Toccata
• Classical music
• Music
• Robert Moevs
• Bassoon

String Quartet No. 2 by Richard Wilson A work commissioned by Phi Beta Kappa might be expected to display the most intimidating

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• String quartet
• String Quartet No. 2
• Harmony
• Ambiguity
• Music
• Musical groups
• Tonality

TRANSFIGURED GOAT for soprano, baritone, clarinet, and piano by Richard Wilson A Curtainraiser

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Elegy by Richard Wilson Elegy, whose Sandy poem was entitled "Thanksgiving In the Country" and refers to the assassination of President Kennedy, went through several stages of revision; its final form was premiered in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1984, thirteen years after it was begun.

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• Omaha
• Nebraska
• Elegy
• John F. Kennedy
• President of the United States
• Thanksgiving
• Literature
• United States
• Poetic form
• Kennedy family

Three Interludes for violin and piano by Richard Wilson My Three Interludes for Violin and Piano are so titled because they were written during compositional ‘interludes’, periods of recuperation after finishing one large work and before tackling

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• Sonata
• Johannes Brahms
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Classical music
• Music
• Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

A Child’s London by Richard Wilson A Child’s London was composed in London in 1984 for my daughter Katherine, then aged 8, who

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Lord Chesterfield to His Son for solo cello by Richard Wilson Lord Chesterfield to His Son is my second extended work for solo cello. The first, Music for

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• Waves
• Music
• Earl of Chesterfield
• Cello
• Sound

Music for Solo Flute by Richard Wilson Music for Solo Flute was written at the request of Harvey Sollberger and completed in the summer

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• Harvey Sollberger
• Classical music

The Second Law for baritone and piano by Richard Wilson The first teacher I laid eyes on, as a frightened college freshman, was a certain Stephen Sandy. It

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• Existentialists
• Anti-Christianity
• Determinists
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Hellenists
• Postmodernists
• NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
• Ezra Pound
• Plato
• Philosophy
• Modernism
• Literature

Three Painters for tenor and piano by Richard Wilson Three Painters, composed in London in the spring of 1984 on poetry by Phyllis McGinley, is

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• Television
• Barbara Haskell
• Phyllis McGinley
• Phyllis