Tempest
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"Also admirable are [Beck's] orchestration skills made apparent in the Three Pieces for Orchestra in which different threads manifest themselves simultaneously and request your attention."
– Jean-Yves Duperron,
Classical Music Sentinel
(March 2020)
The music of Tempest comes from the Prelude to my lyric opera, The Biddle Boys and Mrs. Soffel (2000). Based on a tragic love story from the early twentieth century, Ed and Jack Biddle were condemned prisoners who escaped from the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh with help from the warden’s wife, Kate Soffel, who fled with them. The Boys were tracked down by a posse and killed in a shootout. Mrs. Soffel was arrested at the scene and convicted for assisting them in their escape. Commissioned and premiered by the Tuesday Music Club of Pittsburgh, this opera was named by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as one of the Top Ten Cultural Events in Pittsburgh for the year 2001.
Tempest was recorded by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms conductor, and is the second movement of my Three Pieces for Orchestra. This work is available on my 2020 innova CD, by moonlight.
This composition may be purchased below or is available on a rental basis from:
The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music
The Free Library of Philadelphia
1901 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1116
tel (215) 686-5313
fleisher@freelibrary.org
- Instrumentation:
- 1111/1000/0/stgs
- Date completed:
- 2016
- Duration:
- 3:00
- Audio:
Tempest for orchestra
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