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Additional Info
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ComposerJohn Harbison
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PublisherAssociated Music Publishers Inc
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ArrangementChamber Group (CHAM)
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FormatScore and Parts
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Genre20th Century
Description
For oboe, violin, viola, and cello. Six American Painters began as a musical description of six paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eventually they ranged further and it seemed more helpful to name them for the painters rather than specific paintings. I wanted to evoke the artists' after-images, rather than any of the individual works. When you look at a picture, you take away a general impression, a mood or color, that dominates the details; in music, one is apt to remember the details, a tune or a harmony. I wanted these movements to be a perceivable whole, an act of seeing. The movements are as follows: I. Bingam II. Eakins III. Heade IV. Homer/Inness V. Hoffman VI. Diebenkorn — John Harbison