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Amantes (Lovers)
For Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
Amantes is in three movements:
1. Love, in its Prime
11. Love, Over Fifty
111. Youthful Love
Length: 15:00 (In the above video, the music begins at minute 21:03)
Commissioned in 2023 by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Premiered on Mar 28, 2024 at the AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HALL
With Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet and the Catalyst Quartet.
About “AMANTES”
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In this new work I decided to write about love. while it would be impossible to express all of the emotions
that word conjures; it allowed for a bounty of choices. one simply has to examine one’s life. The work is at
once programmatic and biographical. It reflects my musings on love as a young adult, love in the “3rd Chapter” as a 50-something, and finally youthful love, as an adolescent. The music floats through clouds of emotions that can often be timid, coy, sultry and outright explosive. The canvas of these musings along with a pallet of violins, cello and flute, instruments known for their human-like timbres, made for a composer’s paradise.
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Jeff Scott
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