Three Kedushot (from ‘The Angel of History’)

ensemble: alto saxophone and piano
duration: 11 minutes
written: 2024; arranged summer 2025
commissioned by: Derek Granger, Utah Valley University Wind Symphony
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These three kedushot or prayers were extracted from my saxophone concerto The Angel of History. In the concerto, the soloist acts as a kind of reflective and meditative figure, a characteristic which is put to the fore in these three excerpts.