Adam Cole: Music
Chamber Music - Woodwind Quintet No. 1
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Sections: 1) Opening 2) Adagio 3) Gigue 4) Double Habanera 5) Finale Length of Composition: 12 1/2 minutes Length of Time Adam Spent Composing This Piece: 18 years This piece was inspired by Andrew Peters' Woodwind Quintet, which I heard in recital at Oberlin College in 1992. I wanted to learn how to write for woodwinds and thought writing a woodwind quintet would be the quickest way (HA!) I ignored, no, defied, the advice of my one and only composition professor, Dennis Eberhard, who said something to the effect that, in general, it was a waste of time to write a woodwind quintet. Having "finished," if I am actually finished, I heartily disagree. I began the Double Habanera in 1992, having no idea at all what I was doing. Listening to it in horror, I tried to abandon it and start over with the "Opening." I muddled over it for many years. I wrote the "Adagio" very quickly in a Computer Skills class at Georgia State (during the Finale class) and it needed very little correcting. The Gigue was next, my attempt to create a whole movement out of a single chord. That little trick was harder than I thought it'd be. Finale, I wrote the finally...err...about 3 years ago. I thought I was done last year, but Dr. Nick Demos gave me some thoughtful criticism and I opened up the can of worms again, reworking the last three movements the most, trying to connect the movements a little more meaningfully. Now I think the piece is at the point where I couldn't improve it without radically changing it, so it's time to abandon this baby and let it do what it wants.