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Chamber Music Trombone, Piano SKU: PR.114423120 Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Set of Score and Parts. 28+12 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42312. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423120). UPC: 680160689477.MONUMENTS was commissioned by the Resonate project, a collaboration of the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Bowling Green State University, the Carr Center, Michigan State University, Oberlin College Conservatory, the University of Michigan, and Western Michigan University.The trombone part was written for David Jackson, professor of trombone at the University of Michigan.The title occurred to me when a friend living in Philadelphia told me she had toured monuments in that city on Memorial Day, 2021. By that time I had already written what I call a “noble, lyrical melody” for trombone to serve as the main theme in the composition.MONUMENTS was finished on September 11, 2021. Other awesome monuments had been created on that date twenty years before.–Adolphus Hailstork.