Custer: make it snappy for oboe and piano Saxophone Music_Saxophone (All) and a life cut short

and a life cut short too soon

Approximately 10 minutes

The final section is utterly calm

but Miss Nigro convinced the composer that the contrabassoon would be a much better instrument choice for this music

Custer: make it snappy for oboe and piano Saxophone Music_Saxophone (All) and a life cut shortCode: JP1079 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0033 8 Commissioned by and written especially for oboist Chelsea Cox, this piece is intended to portray an attitude that is, by nature, light hearted and jaunty. The primary compositional material of this piece is a single musical gesture that climbs from the low register of the piano up to a descending minor third in the oboe. This motive, heard almost immediately at the beginning of the piece, provides the impetus for