Keta

2018

Duration: ca. 9'

Force: Alto Saxophone

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Performance History:

Philipp Staudlin. March 12, 2018. Distler Hall. Tufts University (Premiere)

Philipp Staudlin. April 3, 2019. Distler Hall. Tufts University

Philipp Staudlin. April 21, 2019. Seully Hall. Boston Conservatory at Berklee

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Program notes:

Keta /KAY-tah/ n. an image that inexplicably leaps back into your mind from the distant past (definition courtesy of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows). Keta is a work for solo alto saxophone, which employs the idea of ‘inexplicable’ interruption, as its primary structural mechanism. 

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