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Prized Possessions
- Composed
- 2015
- Instrumentation
- Saxophone Quartet (SATB)
- Publisher
- Murphy Music Press
- Duration
- approximately 12 minutes
With its two contrasting movements, Prized Possessions attempts to address the human phenomenon of taking things for granted by sending musical material through various repetitions and expressive treatments. The piece focuses on balancing fleeting, quickly vanishing ideas with other material that’s allowed to obsessively linger until almost no longer welcome.