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Alto Saxophone and Electric Guitar

Commissioned by:

Bobbi Thompson & Ariel Kasler (Canada/USA)

Premiered at the World Saxophone Congress, Gran Canaria, December 2023

Performed at NASA Conference March 2024, Oklahoma

Programme note:

Cloud Cover on Erie was commissioned by the Thompson-Kasler Duo (Bobbi Thompson and Ariel Kasler) (Candada/USA)

Persistent, unrelenting cloud cover and grey skies are a backdrop for imagined daydreaming while driving alongside Lake Erie, providing a calming, partly hypnotic work.

Although fully notated, options are given for flexible start and end points, and improvisation on the given material is encouraged.