Stomp (1988) by Scott Lindroth

Stomp was a 60th birthday present for Jacob Druckman, with whom I studied as a graduate student at Yale in the early 1980s. It is an agile piece for 10 instruments that is comprised of short rhythmic/melodic gestures that are passed from one group of instruments to the next at a breakneck pace. There are several affectionate attempts to channel Druckman's incredible feel for instrumentation in this work, though the chipper (or rather frantic) character is all my own. This performance dating from 1992 took place at Tanglewood under the direction of Brad Lubman. You'll have to excuse the recording quality -- it's a transfer from an old cassette tape.