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- Yehudi Wyner
Three Short Fantasies (1963)
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Programme Note
Composer Note:
The composition of Three Short Fantasies spans 8 years. The first, fluently sketched in 1963, was evoked by the mysterious sonority of Stravinsky's Symphonies for Wind lnstruments. For a number of years I set aside this Fantasy, unsure of its value (repelled, attracted, indifferent) until at last it persuaded me. I dedicated it to friends, P and B, under the title Piccole Armonie. The second, subtitled Piccola Fantasia Davenniana, written during the summer of 1966, was a birthday present for the pianist Ward Davenny. The pitch structure derives from a simple system based on his name. Fantasy III was completed expressly for Robert Miller to play in 1971, and is dedicated to him. His interest in the first two pieces and his unruffled confidence that the new piece would be ready in time helped turn long speculation into reality. I feel the three fantasies live well together, despite the years the separate them, despite the absence of a unifying idea or systematic program. Like the unplanned elements in a city, the pieces comprise a neighborhood. I say these things because I am interested in unity I cannot explain. Demonstrable unities, methodical construction often bore me with their simple-minded ingenuities, substituting "reasons" for the mystery of intuitive coherence.
-- Yehudi Wyner