Contenuto
- I. Hoist
- II. Drive Train
- III. Belt
- IV. Flywheel
- V. Balance
- VI. Trash
Six from the Shop Floor for Saxophone Quartet
Carter Pann composed The Mechanics in 2013 at the rustic MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, as a commission for the Capitol Quartet. Pann describes “picturing all four gentlemen of the Capitol Quartet to be dressed as old-time auto mechanics, smudged with grit and grease, performing in the middle of my brother’s taxicab stand (which is also a full-service auto shop with two hydraulic lifts).”