Music of David Froom

Music of David Froom

Amichai Songs (2006) - baritone and ensemble

Fantasy Dances (2000) - chamber ensemble

Circling (2002) - flute and clarinet

Emerson Songs (1996) - soprano and chamber ensemble

Trio (2002) - clarinet, cello and piano

William Sharp, baritone
Christine Schadeberg, soprano
21st Century Consort, Christopher Kendall, conductor

BRIDGE 9240

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“David Froom's music will keep you on the edge of your seat trying to guess what will happen next. The works on this disc are diverse, but share a common concern for subverting expectations.” So writes composer Eric Moe about David Froom, born in 1951. Froom says that he revels “in a world where the new can embrace any aspect of a readily available past”, and indeed, Brahmsian gestures and sonorities, Stravinskian rhythms and dislocations, Reichian drive and repetition, and bebop riffs and syncopations all coexist here, forged into one distinctive voice.