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WALTER ROSS

AUTUMN PASTORALE

Oboe d'amore (Cor anglais) & Piano

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Walter Ross

(1936-)

Walter Ross was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, in 1936. He began to study theFrench horn at the age of twelve and, by seventeen, was performing professionally withthe Lincoln Symphony Orchestra.

Although spending four years at the University of Nebraska studying mechanicalengineering and astronomy, he continued playing with the orchestra. Ross decided toreturn to university to study music. After his masters degree, he went on to CornellUniversity for his doctorate. There, he was awarded an Organization of AmericanStates Fellowship to study composition privately under Alberto Ginastera at theInstituto Torcuato de Tella (Buenos Aires). He has been the recipient of significant

grants and fellowships, numerous awards and prizes.

Ross began teaching composition and theory in the Music Department at theUniversity of Virginia in 1967. He established the Charlottesville University andCommunity Orchestra, which he conducted for two years. Later, he formed a Baroquetrio sonata ensemble in which he played flute and recorder.

During his tenure at the University of Virginia he served as Chairman of theDepartment of Music and was awarded a University Outstanding Teaching Award. Heparticipated in regional, national, and international juries of composition and

performance.

Walter Ross has composed over 150 works, which have been widely performed in overforty countries. Many of his compositions have been published, recorded andbroadcast. He is, perhaps, best known for his compositions featuring brass andwoodwinds. The influences of his own extensive performance background and diversemusical training (with composers who stressed bright orchestration and rhythmicexcitement) can be detected in many of his works. Many of his recent pieces arerepresentative of his current interest in neo-modal, pan-diatonic composition.

He has been a visiting composer at the Aspen Music Festival, a featured composer atseveral universities and forums, and a board member of the Capital ComposersAlliance.

In 1997 he wrote a cantata featuring the poetry of Rita Dove, the American PoetLaureate. Recent choral works include Lux Aeterna to honour the victims of 9/11,which has been performed upon a number of occasions.

Retired from full time teaching, Walter Ross currently performs on double bass in theBlue Ridge Chamber Orchestra. In addition to composing, he continues his interestin chess (in 1969 he won a trophy in the U.S. Open Chess Tournament), astronomy,and the History of Science.


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Autumn Pastorale

Oboe d'amore (Cor anglais) & Piano

SI 012

The beauty of Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains inspired this one-movement work,which was written for and dedicated to Jennifer Paull in 1998.

The eastern range of the Appalachians extends southwards from Pennsylvania tonorthern Georgia. From a distance they appear blue, the derivation of their name.The Blue Ridge Mountain Range was a natural barrier to the pioneers' progress

towards the west. There are a multitude of natural gaps cross the ridge, however. Thatat Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was an important railroad traverse. Most of thepeople of the Blue Ridge still live on small farms in sheltered and secluded valleys.

These mountains are near to my home and I wished to express the wonderful coloursand soft air of autumn through the warm tone of the oboe d'amore. I chose the coranglais as an alternative instrument, the timbre of which is also well suited to theseautumnal hues.

Walter Ross1998

Works by Walter Ross published by Amoris International

Portraits fromLa Commedia dellArteI Punchinellos Scherzino SI 016

II Trio di fantasia CM 004

Concerto for Oboe d'amore - Keyboard Reduction SI 022

Old Joe Clarks Musical Offering CM 006

Variations on Auprs de ma blonde EN 004

Concerto for Oboe d'amore & String Orchestra OR 004

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