Erb: Ritual Observances Mvmt. III
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Donald Erb: Ritual Observances
CIM Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Composed on 1991, Ritual Observances takes its title from the prologue of the collected works of Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. It was written for Erb's Meet the Composer residency commission for the Saint Louis Symphony and dedicated to Leonard Slatkin and Bruce Duncan Collie. The music itself contains a dedication to Mozart's Lacrymosa of the Requiem in D minor. Leonard Slatkin is currently the music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.