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Fast Bridgefall
Date Completed:November 29, 1989
Duration:about 2 and a half minutes
Instrumentation:horn and piano
First Performance:January 25, 1990 by Michele Boyd, horn and Dana Brown, piano.
Comments:Commissioned by Michele Boyd for and dedicated to the Northeast Ohio Dance Ensemble, Janine Vrotsos, director.
Program Notes:Michele Boyd, at the time a graduate student at the University of Akron, asked me to write a work to be choreographed for a children's dance company. As I recall, her requirements were that it be about 2 minutes for horn and piano and that it smehow include the children's song, London Bridge is Falling Down.