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Commissioned by the New World Ensemble, West Hartford, Connecticut.
This is music in the American style, written in the language of jazz, rock-n-roll and (American) folk music, expressing perhaps the raw energy and openness associated with the "new continent."
These movements ("Up Tempo", "Slow Dance", "Soft Shoe", "Rapid Fire") are not specifically intended as dance music. Rather, they are inspired by American dance music and then evolve into commentaries upon this idiom.
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