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Mark Brandenburg, clarinet, Mission Chamber Orchestra, Emily Ray conductor. Arizona University Recordings AUR CD 3108
Composed over a 47-year period, the works by Nancy Bloomer Deussen on this CD range from the title piece, Reflections on the Hudson, written in 1950, to Ascent to Victory, composed in 1997. All of the compositions reflect Deussen's philosophy that contemporary music needs to be melodic, tonally oriented and accessible to the listener.
The first of the four works on the disc was originally the middle movement from her three-movement Rustic Sketches, composed in 1987 for the Oakland Chamber Orchestra, but...