Ma's in Orbit (Fine, Vivian)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	7 sections Race Cuckoo Spring Dance Night-time Shifting Images Indians Finish Line
Composition Year	1987
Genre Categories	Pieces; For percussion, violin, double bass, piano; Scores featuring percussion soloists; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the double bass; Scores featuring the piano; For 4 players

Sheet Music

Scores and Parts

Complete Score
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Complete Parts
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Peggy Karp (2012/2/7)

Publisher. Info.	Vivian Fine Estate
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General Information

Work Title	Ma's in Orbit
Alternative. Title
Composer	Fine, Vivian
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IVF 34
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	7 sections Race Cuckoo Spring Dance Night-time Shifting Images Indians Finish Line
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1987
First Performance.	1987-04-26 at the State University of New York at Buffalo, North American New Music Festival. Thomas Halpin, violin; William Staebell, contrabass; Yvar Mikhashoff, piano; Jan Williams, percussion
Average DurationAvg. Duration	8 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Modern
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	Violin, double bass, percussion (flexatone, glockenspiel, woodblock, marimba, and vibraphone) and piano

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In March 1987, Fine recycled her successful dance score from 1937, The Race of Life, and arranged it for violin, percussion, double bass, and piano….The music is fast paced in cabaret style, with rapidly changing movements titled after Thurber’s sketches….Although originally the music was for piano and flexatone, Fine took the opportunity to add percussive color….Ma’s in Orbit is light and entertaining, and Fine’s innate sense of rhythm plus her experience of composing for dance give this piece an energetic nonstop momentum that successfully combines the short movements.

—Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999

Reviews

This engaging and irreverent ‘cartoon’ music—as Ms. Fine puts it—starts off with a jazzy cakewalk and goes through a fast-paced series of programmatic episodes….With its blithe, syncopated sarcasms, it captures that 1930s spirit found in those recordings Count Basie made around the same time. How such joyous optimism could rise from the rubble of the Great Depression might confound our present-day wisdom. But perhaps its formal vitality provides a clue to just how one survives the times with spirit intact, as Vivian Fine so aptly demonstrates.

—Richard Chon, The Buffalo News, April 27, 1987 (from a review of a retrospective program of Fine’s works)