Arthur Bird: Serenade, Op. 40
Serenade, Op. 40, was awarded the 1901 Paderewski Prize as the best chamber work by an American composer. The Serenade, scored for double woodwind quintet, was premiered by the Longy Woodwind Club in Boston on March 31, 1902. Critics hailed the Serenade for Winds as one of Bird’s finest efforts. Wrote one, “It is unquestionalby skillful, ingenious, thoughtful, well-founded and well-evolved music and a credit to American composition.” Boston Herald critic Philip Hale later praised the work after a 1907 performance, adding that “it is a pity that Mr. Bird has taken life so easily of late years. He was a composer of true promise and his critical articles published in sundry musical periodicals show him to be a man of much acumen and fastidious taste.”
$50.00
GRADE V
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Hear the Arthur Bird Serenade as performed by Eugene Migliaro Corporon and the University of North Texas Chamber Players on