![]() ![]() Given that the Yellow Pages are generally accompanied by the White Pages (for residential listings) and the Blue Pages (for government listings), it seemed natural to use these two other sections as models for additional movements. Ten years later, in 1995, when Present Music offered a commission to expand these musical ideas into a three-movement composition, I jumped at the opportunity. My decision to write for two winds, two strings, and piano came from the belief that it would be a practical combination, and that I would be more likely to get performances in the future. I had just finished my first large piece, Ecstatic Orange, and I chose more open, diatonic harmonies as a kind of relief from the denser chords I had just used. The Yellow Pages was composed while I was a student at Yale, in the spring of 1985. The two new movements, "The Blue Pages" and "The White Pages," which also feature the same technique of 'static transposition,' are also well characterized and sustained. ![]() a vigorous, tidy romp.with a bright kaleidoscopic jangle that was Torke's own. Listen now: TELEPHONE BOOK (click here to listen) Recording: Telephone Book can be found on the release, six Instrumentation: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), violin, 'cello, and piano ![]() Movement Titles: These two new movements, "The Blue Pages" and "The White Pages" added to "The Yellow Pages", makes up the complete Telephone Book Telephone Book (Yellow Pages, Blue Pages, and White Pages) ![]()
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