SELECTED WORKS: with Type = 'All Works'
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Orchestra, Band
Out of the Blues (1981)
Weinzweig composed this work for the University of Toronto Wind Symphony with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council. It contains blues elements, musical ideas Weinzweig began exploring in the 1960s.
Orchestra, Band
Divertimento No. 9 (1982)
This work explores jazz elements using a modern symphony orchestra, creating what Elaine Keillor describes as "a joyful musical experience."
Solos
15 Pieces for Harp (1983)
The descriptive titles of the individual pieces given an indication of the diverse styles Weinzweig uses, his humour, and the many different moods he has portrayed in the set; these moods and many different colours emerge from the harp through lean, pared down textures and modern playing techniques. The results are both challenging and rewarding for player and audience alike.
Trios
Conversations for Three Guitars (1984)
In this work, Weinzweig combines his continued enthusiasm for the texture and timbre of the instrument with his interest for dialogue between performers. The section titles are suggestive of the kinds of “conversations” the three guitars will have.
Quartets
Music Centre Serenade (1984)
Music Centre Serenade alternates between a fast seven-measure passage with cadenzas for each instrument.
Voices
Hockey Night in Canada: A Game in 3 Periods (1985)
Hockey Night in Canada is a difficult and energetic work that seeks to evoke the three-period game in a short three and a half minutes. The choir sings in mostly block rhythms, with an emphasis on terms and phrases routinely used by game commentators (e.g., “high shot,” “slap shot” and “there goes the whistle”).
Voices
Lonesome Satellite (1985)
The work cycles three times through three main textures: first, the eight-part choir creates a musical dialogue by alternating women’s and men’s voices; second, the choir sings all together, with a textless solo soprano above; third, the men sing slow, sombre statements of the phrase “all alone.”
Voices
Prisoner of Conscience (1985)
Weinzweig explains that Prisoner of Conscience is “dedicated to Amnesty International which alerts the world to those citizens in many countries who have been taken away in the night and held incommunicado in solitary confinement without charge or trial.” It centres on a single ten-part cluster chor; the power of the text, which declares “there is no way out,” is emphasised with dramatic dynamic changes.
Voices
Shoppin' Blues (1985)
According to Weinzweig, Shoppin’ Blues “describes the course of a carefree shopping trip that turns into a frenetic experience under pressure of persuasive inducements.” Following separate entrances from each section, the choir sings mostly in block rhythms to emphasise the shopping endeavours: “lookin’ everywhere, down street, Bay Street... .”
Solos
Cadenza (1986)
Cadenza is a virtuosic showpiece for the clarinet, with large leaps, fast scalar passages, contrasting dynamics and articulations, and extended technique.