Living room music (1940)

1.  To begin
2.  Story (Once upon a time the world was round and you could go on it around and around)
3.  Melody
4.  End

Written for percussion quartet (who do not actually use real percussion instruments anywhere in the piece, but rather use architectural elements and furniture, newspapers and other household objects) and has a speech section set to a text by Gerturde Stein.

Concerts by Work

Title Date Venue Professor
Reid Lunch-hour Concert Tuesday, April 23, 1996 Reid Concert Hall with Ahrend organ Osborne, Nigel 1948-