JAVS Fall 2008

Day four – TomTatton

June 7, 2008—a day destined to be very long—began with a short walk across Apache Boulevard in the bright morning sun, slight comfortable breeze, and a cloudless azure sky. I walked past the impressive ASU Gammage Auditorium, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s later projects, which appears bold and round like a magnificent pink birthday cake! Then on to the music complex of the Herberger College of the Arts. The 8:00 a.m. viola ensemble ses sion directed by Kenneth Martinson and me included some twenty-five eager viola students, amateurs, and professionals. I

Gammage Auditorium with Paul Neubauer (inset).

In fact, for my orchestration of this work, I left out several instruments (horns and oboes) to thin out the background to allow the viola to come forward (even in strong pas

sages) with a little more ‘leverage.’” The single-movement work was a nice climax to an extravagant evening.

Geoffrey Ovington

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