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The New York New Music Ensemble began with a bang,
literally. This ensemble has been around for twenty-three
years and it is considered to be "the raising standard" in
contemporary chamber music. On Thursday afternoon, I saw
the ensemble perform three pieces: Trio, Nutturno, and
Marxville Songbook. These three possess very similar tone
color and composition.
The ensemble's first piece, Trio, was composed by Donald
Martino. This musician pursued his interest in music at a
very young age. By age fifteen, he did not only know how to
play various instruments, but he also started composing.
Martino excelled as a member of American Academy of Arts
and Letters and was rewarded scholarships. In 1974,
Martino's classic sextet, Notturno, won him the Pulitzer
Prize in music.
In Notturno there are three large parts, which could be
described as movements that maintain the music's
continuity. Within these three movements, there are
nineteen......

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