Sequenza21.com: “Alvin Singleton’s 'After Choice' was simpler in design, but eloquently so”

[Sing to the Sun: Chamber Music by Alvin Singleton, Troy 902 (2007)]

AfriClassical has published two posts on the premiere of Alvin Singleton's After Choice by the new Orchestra of the League of Composers: “Orchestra of the League of Composers Debuts With 'adventurous music, Alvin Singleton Says” and “New York Times: 'After Choice' by Alvin Singleton 'was an engaging work for string orchestra'”. Today we present an excerpt from a review by Dr. Christian Carey at Sequenza21.com:

Sequenza21.com
League of Composers/ISCM: Concert Review
June 14, 2009
Dr. Christian Carey
"Alvin Singleton’s After Choice was simpler in design, but eloquently so. A string orchestra piece, it consisted of intertwining arco melodies and pizzicati, often in two-part counterpoint or – even starker – played in unisons or octaves. Written in homage to jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins, it didn’t feature anything so overt as jazz inflections. Rather, Singleton based the piece on string parts from a previous orchestral work that Jenkins had admired.”