A Carousel Fantasy
for brass quintet and synthesized carousel (1993)
by Sally Reid, composer, ASCAP
vintage carousel in Alaskaland Theme Park, Fairbanks, Alaska
, 1993
- A Carousel Fantasy
- A Carousel Fantasy (synthesized
carousel only)
- A Carousel Fantasy (810k AIFF),
(.au version)
audio excerpt from A Carousel Fantasy
- A Carousel Fantasy (real
media video clip)
composition duration: 5 minutes, composition date: 1993
"stunning and whimsical" (Minnesota Composer's Forum
Newsletter, November 1993)
"charmingly demented" ( ILWC Journal, June 1994)
Program Notes:
A Carousel Fantasy was commissioned by the Alaska State
Council for the Arts for performance during the musicALASKAwomen
festival(Summer 1993). Written for a brass quintet (or double
quintet) and synthesized carousel (tape), the work was originally
performed from a moving merry-go-round in Alaskaland Theme Park.
The synthesized carousel is realized in the style of the old Wurlitzer
Band Organs.
Selected Performance History:
- March 29, 1996 - Performance of A Carousel Fantasy
during the Imagine '96 Festival (a national meeting of the Society
of Composers, Inc.) at the University of Memphis in Memphis,
TN.
- March 22, 1996 - Performance of A Carousel Fantasy
during the Fourth Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.
- February, 1995 - Performance of A Carousel Fantasy
at the Abilene Composers Concert, Hardin Simmons University's
Woodward Dellis Recital Hall.
- March, 1994 - Performance of A Carousel Fantasy,
a work for brass quintet and synthesized carousel, by the faculty
quintet at Southwest Missouri State University on Region VI SCI
Conference program.
- August 10, 1993 - Premiére performance of A
Carousel Fantasy, for brass quintet and synthesized carousel,
by the Alaska Brass during musicALASKAwomen festival in
Fairbanks, Alaska.
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A Carousel Fantasy