Program notes for Claude Baker's Omaggi e Fantasie?

[lucas215]

Does anyone have some? I need something, but my searches were fruitless. I'm led to believe that something exists in the CD sleeve of David Randolph's "Contrasts in Contemporary Music" CD if anyone has it and would be willing to post the contents here.

Even if not, does someone have any kind of program notes for this piece? Help is much appreciated. I'm really at a dead end here and I'm desperately in need of these program notes.

[AHynds]

I can send you some information about the work--I've spoken to the composer about the work, and am in the midst of writing an article about the work and Baker's music in general. Send me an email at hyndsa (at) gmail (.) com, and I'll get back to you ASAP.

Aaron

[Tom]

Claude Baker is a composition professor at Indiana University. His contact info is listed on their website. Why not write him (or even call) with your questions? I suspect that he'd be happy to help you and excited to know you're going to (I assume) perform it.

http://info.music.indiana.edu/faculty/c ... aude.shtml

[lucas215]

It was actually for the program notes section of a project (due today) on which I procrastinated to a dangerous degree. I managed to find the notes I was looking for this morning, though - here they are for any Googlers who find this thread later on:

Claude Baker (born 1946) attained his doctorate in 1975 from the Eastman School of Music, where his principal composition teachers were Samuel Adler and Warren Benson. As a composer, Mr. Baker has received a number of professional honors, including two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards; the Eastman-Leonard and George Eastman Prizes; a “Manuel de Falla” Prize; BMI-SCA and ASCAP awards; residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony; and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has served on the faculties of the university of Georgia, the University of Louisville, and the Eastman School of Music. He is currently Professor of Composition at Indiana University, and, for the 1991-92 concert season, has been appointed Composer-in-Residence of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Without a doubt one of the most unusual and strikingly beautiful works written for tuba and piano, Baker's Omaggi e Fantasie is comprised of three central movements, each paying homage to a well-known twentieth-century composer (respectively Crumb, Messiaen, and Bartok), and each is preceded by a “fantasia” alluding to a particular work by Mahler, whose identity emerges unmistakably in the concluding section. Baker makes use of numerous unique “inside-the-piano” sounds as well as several non-traditional tuba sounds in a composition that is both technically and musically demanding for the performers, yet eminently listenable for the audience.

This work was written for David Randolph, and was commissioned by the tubist's father, Dr Brady F. Randolph.
- David Randolph

And thank you Aaron, but I actually presented my project today and thus will not be needing your assistance! Your name was the one that came up most in my search for information though. I suspect you had a lot of good things.