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Keys To The City is a one-movement orchestral concerto for piano and orchestra written by the American composer Tobias Picker for the Brooklyn Bridge Centennial.[1]
Keys To The City (orchestral work) | |
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by Tobias Picker | |
Genre | Modernist |
Occasion | 100th Anniversary of The Brooklyn Bridge |
Commissioned by | Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Commission |
Composed | 1983 |
Performed | May 24, 1983 : Brooklyn Bridge |
Movements | 1 |
Picker, at the time in his late twenties, received a commission from The Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Commission to compose a work for the bridge's centennial.[2][3] To prepare, Picker said:[4]
I read Hart Crane and McCullough's "The Great Bridge." I studied its history. Visiting the bridge at different times of day and night, I observed its structure, its content and its context. I watched the light play through cables composed of billions of strands of streel. I listened from the foot bridge to the whine of the cars below. I studied paintings, poems, and songs which had been made in tribute to the bridge over the years. I even gave a champagne party for my friends on it one starry midnight. And I composed furiously.
Keys To The City premiered on May 24, 1983, at the Fulton Ferry Landing underneath Brooklyn Bridge.[5]
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