Scoring

1, so. sx.111;111; perc (4), tmp; pno; 3 3 3 3 2

Duration

14 Minutes

Recording

Album Title

Dan Asia

Label

Albany Records [product id: TROY106]

Performances

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1990
BLOOMINGTON, IN
Bloomington Contemporary Ensemble
Daniel Asia, conductor
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1986

Aspen Festival Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Asia, conductor
FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1986

Detroit Symphony Orchestra
JANUARY 22 & 23, 1986
NEW YORK, NY
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Daniel Asia, conductor
Great Hall at Cooper Union
Foundation Building
7 East 7th Street (at Third Avenue)
New York, NY

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1982

WORLD PREMIERE
Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble
Daniel Asia, conductor
Reviews

B. HOLLAND, NEW YORK TIMES
The evening’s most eloquently argued piece was Daniel Asia’s Rivalries, which handled complex instrumental forces with impressive poise and sophistication. With the composer conducting, it also brought some of the evening’s best instrumental playing (from the Brooklyn Philharmonic).

MUSE, THE ARTS NEWSPAPER FOR COLORADO
Rivalries, by conductor-composer Daniel Asia, is an exceedingly intelligent, clean, engaging, and well-crafted work that pits different orchestral groups against each other, including a delightful jazz trio of soprano saxophone, piano and bass. His music is full of tension and release, sometimes combative, sometimes playfully flexible with the inflections of jazz rhythms: music for the here and now, that should also wear well.