Michael Montgomery: Antarctica Suite for double bass quartet

About the Suite Antarctica Suite is a five-movement work aimed at the young progressing bass quartet, also playable by larger forces. A wealth of colors, textures, and timbres are explored, offering effective musical and technical challenges for each bassist. Each movement is a miniature tone poem, often incorporating simple harmonics alongside the orchestral range of the instrument. The pieces have a didactic aspect, as well as being wonderful concert literature, offering much to the enterprising and adventurous bass quartet or ensemble. 1. Antarctica - The Vast White WildernessBeing a land known for its wide expanse and solitude, desolation and beauty, many of Antarctica’s faces are likely familiar to most who would consider her - several are here represented in this and the remaining four movements of the suite, which are intended to serve as musical snapshots of one of the most hostile and barren corners of our planet. 2. Totten - Mammoth River of IceIn your mind’s eye picture the