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Composer's note: “Wakings (1986) emerges from a compositional struggle between repetition of a harmonic idée fixe and a world of improvisation, fantasy and blurred structural lines. Perhaps it takes its distant historical cue from the Baroque passacaglia. The work was written for the Society for New Music on a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.”

This is first movement of SYMPHONY IN OLD STYLE. Overture may be performed in reduced orchestration; rent full orchestration only, allow option of performance with full or reduced. OVERTURE won 1987 Bucks County (PA) Symphony composition contest and was performed by BCSO May 1987.