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American Invention

for 13 players in three groups
13 players in 3 groups
The drum part requires a player expert in coordinating both feet and hands which is why the score specifies a drummer rather than a percussionist.
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Steve Martland writes: ’The title is ironic. Bach and his keyboard inventions and American imperialism – a montage assembly, a series of self-destructive machine processes, fragments, fractures; everything discontinuous. But irony is not enough; art is not a mirror held up to reality but a force with which to shape it’.

Orchestral Cast

2.0.0.2bcl.0-1.0.0.0-perc(ride cym, sus cym, h.h, break d or anvil, 2 synth drum, b.d [pedal])-bgtr.2pno-str(2.0.1.1.0)

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Title:
American Invention
for 13 players in three groups
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1985
Duration:
22 ′
World Premiere:
June 10, 1985 · Aldeburgh (UK)
Aldeburgh Festival 1985
Conductor: Oliver Knussen · London Sinfonietta

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Aldeburgh Foundation with funds provided by the Eastern Arts Association
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
LSL 2893-01

Performances

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  • American Invention
    Conductor: Nathan James Dearden
    November 29, 2018 | Egham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Windsor Building Auditorium, Royal Holloway
    20.00
  • American Invention
    Conductor: Neil Thompson
    Orchestra: Orquestra Filarmonica de Goias
    May 15, 2016 | Goiânia (Brazil) , Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer
    21:00
  • American Invention
    Bang on a Can Summer Festival 2006
    Conductor: Brad Lubman
    July 29, 2006 | North Adams, MA (United States of America) , MASS MoCA
  • American Invention
    Conductor: Gregory Rose
    Orchestra: Trinity College of Music Ensemble
    October 21, 1999 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Hinde Street Church
  • American Invention
    Conductor: Neil Thomson
    Orchestra: RCM 20th Century Ensemble
    November 14, 1995 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Royal College of Music
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