The name Easley Blackwood is known in two areas: music and the game of contract bridge. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music Music City : a collaborative music database All Music Guide... Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players who form two partnerships, or sides. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. ...
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EasleyBlackwood has been associated with the University of Chicago for over three decades, and is also a phenomenal pianist, known for his performances of Ives's Concord Sonata, as well as for repertoire by more obscure composers such as Casella and Szymanowski.
Following the initial allegro outburst comes a rather languid oboe solo as second theme; Blackwood oversimplifies when he states that it is in A major, for its reliance on the chromatic opening motives (notably major and minor thirds in forms such as E-G-E flat) obscures the key.
The outer parts are variations on an angular theme first given by solo clarinet; the trio starts with solo horn and is based on the three-note motive of the first movement, treated canonically.
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