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FROM HER HUSBAND’S HAND This concerto for alto saxophone is, I feel, one of my best works. It is based loosely on Book XI of Milton’s Paradise Lost. I am considering a series of works based on the other books, but to date I’ve sketched only Chaos, a work for wind ensemble, based on Book I. The first movement of this concerto begins with Eve, going off into the garden alone, meeting the serpent, and eating the forbidden fruit. After an improvised cadenza and short interlude, it proceeds directly into the second movement, which begins as Adam eats the fruit, and they commit the seven deadly sins. The work ends with an epilogue, as they lament what they have lost.
Click here for a (non-printable) .pdf of the opening of the full score.
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