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Duration: 2'30"
Clarinet version:
COMPOSED for and
PREMIERED by Clarinessence, Brandywine
River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pa., December 21, 1989.
AVAILABLE from your favorite sheet music dealer, or direct from Presser.
YOUTUBE of Steven Christ (on all parts)
Saxophone version:
AVAILABLE from your favorite sheet music dealer, or
direct from Presser.
RECORDED by the Harmo Saxophone Quartet on Meister Music CD MM-1016 (Japan)
and also the "Harmo's Best" Greatest Hits CD.
Hundreds of performances by San Francisco Saxophone Quartet and Amherst Saxophone Quartet.
AUDIO EXCERPT
from Harmo Saxophone Quartet CD
NYSSMA list of recommended contest pieces.
Bassoon version:
PREMIERED by the Ohio State University Bassoon Ensemble, Christopher Weait director, at IDRS 1997.
AVAILABLE from your favorite sheet music dealer, or direct from Presser.
Orchestra version:
INSTRUMENTATION: 222(Bcl)2 4330 1-2Perc Strings
PERFORMANCES INCLUDE the DC Youth Orchestra televised on over 300 PBS-TV
stations to an audience over 8,000,000 on the MENC "World's Largest
Concert."
AVAILABLE on rental from Theodore Presser Company.
PROGRAM NOTES
FAST
WALK was composed in 1989 originally for 3 Bb Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, for
the quartet Clarinessence in which I played bass clarinet. The music popped out
all at once one day while I was composing my Concerto for Contrabassoon.
Soon
after, I made versions for SATB Saxophone Quartet, and for Orchestra, and for 3
Bassoons and Contrabassoon. The orchestra version was broadcast on the 1994 MENC
World's Largest Concert to an estimated 8 million viewers, and it
was also included in the San Antonio Symphony's 2002-03 season of educational
concerts for which they received ASCAP's Adventuresome Programming Award.
The
saxophone version has been recorded by the Tokyo-based Harmo Saxophone Quartet
and has been performed hundreds of times as an encore by the Amherst Saxophone
Quartet and by the San Francisco Saxophone Quartet.
CORRECTION IN SAX QUARTET VERSION
Baritone Saxophone part, bars 40-44 remain in a key signature of 2 sharps.
REVIEWS
"This short, upbeat piece makes a terrific opener for a concert, or as the first piece after intermission."
–Saxophone Journal (Susan Fancher), September/October 2007
"Daniel Dorff's 1991 "Fast Walk," followed the Gershwin Lullaby and made a nice antidote to its dreaminess with an animated, chattery and positive ambience."
–
Buffalo (NY) News (Herman Trotter), January 24, 1994
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