Hello, for today’s post, I’m live blogging class with Professor Manning shading Joan Tower’s Fanfare for an Uncommon Woman. This piece is written for two brass quintets. On the score in the notes it says, the quintets should be separated as much as possible. So although they are playing the same music, and working together to make beautiful sounds, at times it may feel and sound like two teams battling it out, and from an audience perspective you can see two full size brass quintets which is a unique feature. This is the 3rd movement of 6 fanfares written by Tower. The two quintets are the New York Philharmonic and Empire Brass Quintet.
Today’s game is also all about teams. The game is Disney Codenames. This game sets two teams against each other, and one member of the team knows all the information about certain Disney characters, whereas the rest has to guess which characters belong to them, the trick is you can only give two word clues that can’t involve the characters name, the first team to guess all the characters wins!
I hope you enjoy Fanfare for an Uncommon woman and get a chance to play Disney Codenames.
I think its interesting that you said that the affect of Joan Tower's score instruction of the two quintets to be as far away from each other as possible, sometimes sounded like they were battling. Do you think this may have been Joan Tower's commentary on how often times women will end up battling each other in order to achieve success, instead of working together to push against the patriarchy?
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