for Tenor Saxophone and pre-recorded text, January 2007

Dying Ain’t Bad Y’all was one of 2 commissions by the 2007 International Push Festival. It was inspired by the famed work GRAB IT by Dutch composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis. It features the voice of a pentecostal preacher synchronized with a lone tenor saxophone, resulting in a driving duet propelled by a spirited African American cadential speech melody. Funky? Damn, yesss!

Performed by Colin MacDonald February 2nd, 2007

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