Overture for Brass Quintet (1990)

Duration: 5'15"
Instrumentation: brass quintet (two C trumpets, horn, trombone and bass trombone)
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Publisher: Robert Paterson Music (ASCAP)

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Overture for Brass Quintet was written in 1990, and for fifteen years it sat in my closet without a premiere. There were aspects of this work I was unhappy with, but after all that time, I finally decided to revise it so I could hear a live performance. Some composers consider it tretcherous to revise a work after so much time. This is understandable: afterall, you are basically a different composer, older and more experienced and have hopefully been exposed to a world of influences. However, I view this this particular revision process as a positive experience and it was quite fun. I corrected problems that I probably would not have noticed when I first wrote it and I made it tighter and more unified. After cleaning house, what I finally have is an exciting, highly rhythmic, virtuostic tour de force for brass quintet.

– Robert Paterson