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Andrew Walters: Before Clocks Cease Their Chiming

from Messengers by Duo Montagnard

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Andrew Walters was born in Topeka, Kansas but spent most of his beginning years in Farmington, Missouri. Walters received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Millikin University where he studied composition with Robert Chamberlain. He received his Master of Music degree in Composition from Northern Illinois University where he studied composition with Jan Bach, Robert Fleisher and electronic music with James Phelps. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of Illinois where he worked in the EMS studios under the guidance of Scott Wyatt and James Beauchamp. His dissertation was on the use of texture in the music of Louis Andriessen. While working at the University of Illinois, his primary teachers were William Brooks, Zack Browning, Erik Lund, and Paul Zonn.

Before Clocks Cease Their Chiming gets its title indirectly from the last lines of the poem “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W. H. Auden. It features textures inspired by clocks---the ticking of clocks, its pendulums, springs, and mechanical features, the chiming and resonances of its bells. A musical composition, like a clock, is a structure that when performed, measures the passing of time. And like the clocks in the Auden poem that “whirr and chime”, in music we come to understand the fleeting nature of life and love and our efforts to suspend our belief in the decay of these things.

This piece was written for Duo Montagnard and received its world premier at the 2009 World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand in July of 2009.

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from Messengers, released August 2, 2011

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