- Sundance Overture (1983) orchestra 8'
- 2, picc,2,Eh,2,2 4,2,3,1 T,perc(3)pno strings
- Commissioned by the Billings Symphony
- Premiere—1983, by the Billings Symphony Orchestra conducted by composer, Billings, MT.
Program Note
Sundance Overture is a sunny, dancing piece, written for the Billings, Montana Symphony Orchestra and premiered in autumn 1983. It is cast in modified sonata form, with a broad introduction, statement, development, restatement and coda. Most of the thematic material is drawn from the opening trumpet solo. The melodic and harmonic language has an "American" ring, and the tonality is a frank, if occasionally disturbed, C. The work is dedicated to George Perkins.