To My Patient Gardener (4:17)

Abdiel González, Baritone

(Studio Recording, 2008)

Dedicated to
Burt Peachy and Chuck Spence

            To My Patiend Gardener was written as a wedding piece, and is a setting of a poem by Burt Peachy. Scored for baritone and piano, the piece was completed in early 2008 and premiered at the wedding of Peachy and Chuck Spence in November 2008.

Copyright 2008 © by Philip Westin

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Ballet for Bubbles:

An Ode to a Liberated Hippo

for Brass Quintet

1. The Escape (1:46)

2. The Pursuit (2:23)

3. An Evening Stroll (2:16)

4. Epilogue (4:21)

Eastern Brass Quintet

(Live Performance, 1973)

            Ballet for Bubbles: An Ode to a Liberated Hippo, was commissioned by the Eastern Brass Quintet. It was completed and premiered in 1973. The piece is four movements long and is scored for the traditional brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba).The piece is based upon a news story that gained national attention about a hippopotamus that escaped from a wild animal park in Irvine, California in February 1973. Finding refuge in a rain-filled pond, she eluded capture for 19 days. Bubbles was finally taken down with tranquilizer darts; but tragically, she collapsed in an unnatural position, and died from suffocation. The work was later re-scored by Westin for Wind Ensemble.

Copyright 1973 © by Philip Westin

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Peter Piper (1:29)

Sullin's College Women's Chorus

Harold Daugherty, Conductor

(Studio Recording, 1968)

            Peter Piper was commissioned by Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia in 1968. It was premiered and recorded by the Sullins College Women's Chorus the following year with Harold Daugherty conducting.

Copyright 1968 © by Philip Westin

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