I wrote this woodwind quintet when I had just arrived at Leeds University in 1977. It was a huge change to my life. I was living in a city for the first time and everything seemed strange, new and exciting if somewhat scary. I remember walking from my Hall of Residence to the Music Department through the wet, leaf-covered streets and trying to come up with ideas for it in my head. It is a serial composition and as a first attempt, has some “bumpy” moments but, 44 years later, I have made slight alterations to make it more playable and to give the musical ideas a chance to “breath”. This realisation is from Sibelius 7.5.1 with NotePerformer 3 as the playback engine.
