Robert Martin

Woodwind Quartet No. 7

The seventh wind quartet was completed in 2002 and is fashioned after a childhood memory of a chaotic and impromptu music experience. 'I remembered a children's birthday party where several sisters; who had taken music lessons; were pushing each other off a piano bench in order to have a brief turn playing easy tunes. This artless ruckus turned out to be an exciting 'performance' despite being unplanned. The girls were laughing; pushing; shoving; struggling; even banging and pounding; while managing to render chopped-up tune fragments from pieces that were popular at the time.' The result is a single-movement quartet; where 'surrealism is based on non-surrealistic reality.' For advanced performers. Dur.: 9'15'