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Guitar Concerto, II. Adagio molto

from The Senior Composition Recital of David Grossman by David Lee Grossman

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Although this piece is one of the newest ones on the program, its origin is one of the oldest. The summer after 9th grade, I attended a summer composition camp at Westminster, and Zachary Klim was assigned as my roommate. And he just happened to be a classical guitarist as well as a composer. At the end of that week, he offered to play on my high school senior recital if I wrote anything for guitar. After writing a Spanish-influenced etude for my high school recital and a few other short guitar pieces, I added a guitar piece to my tentative college recital program. Initially, I wanted to use the first movement of this concerto, a rhythmic combination of classical and cinematic sounds with a challenging solo part, but I eventually replaced it with the second movement in the interest of time.

With smaller instrumental forces and a lighter texture, this movement creates a more intimate setting with a focus on the gentle side of the guitar. It opens with a wash of jazz-influenced harmonies before the guitar introduces a lyrical melody that permeates the rest of the piece. After a cadenza and a chorale-like setting of the theme in the strings, the guitar finishes its final statement of the melody entirely with harmonics over a sparse string section as the movement’s harmonic tension fades away.



Due to space and time limitations on the recital, this was performed with a piano reduction of the orchestral part rather than an orchestral mockup.

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from The Senior Composition Recital of David Grossman, released June 27, 2019
Zachary Klim - guitar
Lauren Tannen - piano reduction

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David Lee Grossman Charleston, South Carolina

Inspired from a young age by Mozart to write music, and more recently John Williams to write soundtrack music, David Grossman began composing in 7th grade and already has a diverse portfolio encompassing many genres from baroque and classical to jazz to choral and vocal music. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College (BM, Music Composition) and the Seattle Film Institute (MM, Film Music) ... more

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