Title:  Movements For Nine Players

   Date of Composition:  1967

   Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
           Flute, Clarinet, violin, piano, celesta/piano II, percussion,
           trumpet, cello and bass

   Publisher: American Composers Alliance

   Date of Publication: 1967

   Duration: Approx 8' 30"

   Recordings:

        Composers Recordings Inc. #293

   Mr. Pleskow writes:
   
   Movements for Nine Players received its first performance by the
   Contemporary Chamber Ensemble under its conductor, Arthur Weisberg, in
   October of 1957.  The work consists essentially of 31 variations set in
   7 bar units with some expansions, elisions and interpolations.

   The ensemble in this piece is sometimes subdivided into two groups,
   sometimes set as one unit and at times regrouped into various smaller
   instrumental combinations.  The "moveable" way the ensemble is used is
   complemented  by the constantly changing textures and constant realignment
   of the musical material itself.  The material is built up by alternation
   of symmetrical and assymetrical phrases, continuous and interrupted
   activities, lean and thick textures and passive and active unfolding of
   the pitch material.