A Quick Blast

composer: Mark-Anthony Turnage

No. 1 from "Etudes and Elegies"

for wind, brass and percussion

Commissioned work: Commissioned by the BBC and written for the BBC Symphony Orchestra as "Associate Composer"
Premiere: July 15, 2001 Cheltenham (UK) Cheltenham Festival 2001 · Conductor: Martyn Brabbins · BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 4(3.4.pic,afl)3(3.ca).Ebcl.2.bcl.cbcl(optional).2(2.cbsn).cbsn-4.3.2.btbn.1-4perc(vib, mar, sus cym, ride cym, sizz cym, cow bell, tamb, s.d, b.d, lion's roar, timp, clav, wdbl, ratchet)
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Duration: 10' 0''
Year of composition: 2000
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