William Matthews, Ramon Zupko

University of Iowa Ensemble of the Center for New Music: William Hibbard, viola; David Miller, bass; Jane Funk, flute; David Ross, clarinet; Charles Koster, bassoon; Karen Bernstein, harpsichord; Gary Boerckel, piano; Linda Carolan, percussion; Steven Schick, percussion; Dennis Loftin, percussion; Richard McCandless, percussion; James Dixon, Conductor; Nancy Elan, violin; Barbara Bagatin, cello; Andrew Thomas, piano; Harvey Sollberger, ConductorWilliam Matthews writes:“I have long been interested in modelling musical forms after other, real-life time experiences, and the two compositions on this album are both examples of the possibilities. The first of the pieces, Letters From Home, for 11 musicians (antiphonally arranged into four groups which surround the audience), has a non-specific correlation to the psychological time of a term of autobiography. The musical materials expand gradually from the initial isolated (harpsi)chord, taking some odd twists and turns along the way to an ep