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SANDERS THEATER. Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Works of Nielsen, Sydeman (1965), and works Dvorak. Tickets...
...Composer Sydeman is understandably pleased by the attention, but he points out that it is the result of "writing music very seriously for ten years." His works have become notable for the variety of their instrumental colors, for their fresh, perky themes and invigorating rhythms...
...Because Sydeman believes that it is important to write chamber music before orchestral music ("You get to know all the fingerings, the sounds and ranges of the instruments and how they combine"), his longest instrumental work thus far is a 27-minute Concert Piece for Chamber Orchestra, actually a four-movement chamber symphony. Among his other chamber successes: Seven Movements for Septet, Concerto da Camera for Violin and Chamber Ensemble. As interpreted by the Orchestra of America last week, Orchestral Abstractions was jagged in profile, strong in rhythm and color, the solo instruments, particularly the brasses in the last movement...
...Manhattan stockbroker, Composer Sydeman studied piano halfheartedly as a child, went to Duke to study business administration but got so involved with writing a college musical that he chucked business in favor of study...
...teacher of composition at Mannes, Sydeman lives with his wife and two children in a Manhattan suburb. But he is thinking of moving farther out to increase his 40-minute commuting time. His reason: he does his best composing on trains. "If I'm in the studio I want to get out, but if I'm on the train I can just look out the window. After all, Mozart liked to write in a carriage...