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"Ned McGowan, an American expatriate living in Amsterdam known as a leading contemporary composer/flutist"

 - Sequenza 21

Second City

(2007)


Mixed quintet


Instrumentation:

voice
contrabass/alto recorder
contrabass flute/flute
trumpet
piano

Duration: 12'



Written for Hexnut
Commissioned by the Music at the Anthology Festival, NY

Texts by Robert Glick and from the Bible: Ecclesiastes – A Time for Everything
First performance: MATA, Brooklyn, NY March 21st, 2007







Ricocheting tempi combined with sometimes acrid, piercing sonorities to conclude some of the most satisfying music of the night.

– Bruce Hodges, MusicWeb International, March 2007