Rubies
after Thelonius Monk's "Ruby, My Dear"
John Harbison/ed. Peter Stanley Martin
Composer John Harbison writes: Rubies is a version of Thelonius Monk's Ruby, My Dear, which he composed while still in his teens. When I was invited by the Seattle Symphony to make a short piece reflecting my first musical passions my …
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Composer John Harbison writes: Rubies is a version of Thelonius Monk's Ruby, My Dear, which he composed while still in his teens. When I was invited by the Seattle Symphony to make a short piece reflecting my first musical passions my thoughts were of Bach and Monk. Since I had recently made some Bach-like choral preludes, I chose to make a version of Monk's tune, first in a chamber-musical, contrapuntal manner, then in the grand orchestral style I had always heard lurking there.