TEMPTATION

From the composer's website:
"Temptation was composed in 1994 for Jeffrey Lyman. I was a graduate student at the time, very young in my composition career, and editing this piece twenty-three years later has given me an interesting perspective on what changed in my composing and what has not.
The piece hoped to express those first timid forays into personal exploration: for me, this was about testing the waters as a composer in an attempt to find my voice. I could try different languages or different effects for the sake of trying them, but I often found certain techniques lacking in those qualities I wanted to explore most.
In hindsight, Temptation isn’t so much about the Biblical connotations of being tempted as it is about finding what was truly important to me as a young composer. I have taken great joy in revisiting it for this edition, and I am grateful to Jeffrey Lyman for commissioning it and allowing me to begin this journey; and to Saxton Rose whose support of the piece inspired its current edition."

"[The] idea is very effectively portrayed in this excellent seven-minute work. Simple lyrical material is presented and then developed; cautiously at first and then more adventurously. After being subdued, the material is again explored more ambitiously, eventually even with wild abandon including multiphonics and very fast virtuoso passages, only to end in restraint.”
—Jon Beebe, Appalachian State University The Double Reed Vol. 23 No. 3, 2002

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