Raum - The Witness Pixel for Six Trombones

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Raum - The Witness Pixel for Six TrombonesThe unusual term, Witness Pixel, comes from a process used in a field of cosmology that is actually beyond the understanding of the composer but was explained by her son who works at Berkeley on telescopes that detect the origins of the universe. Witness pixels look at the coordination of all the layers of metal and ceramics working in concert to form the finished telescope detector. Elizabeth Raum was taken with the imagery this term conjured up and

Exaltation

I wrote this piece with those memories in my mind

profound and gracious

James Markey has brilliantly arranged eleven of these movements for Tenor Trombone and Piano for virtuoso level performers

Have you seen ought of my bonny lad

The main theme is--by some manipulation--a source for most of the other themes

Composer Frith dares pros and amateurs to perform this challenging work and send in their recording (live or otherwise)

on the Redshift Records label

3 Trumpets in b-flat

The scale presents itself in many different guises throughout the 5 1/2 minute work

is one of his most famous Solo Piano works

Since graduating from the Eastman School of Music she has performed with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax