Scene 1 - A park in Nizhniy Novgorod.

Philip and Willie are dressed in baseball uniforms as they wait for the start of the bottom half of the ninth inning. They discuss their pending contract renewals in November. Philip wants to leave but Willie is undecided. Ivan enters with a group of NKVD agents to monitor the game.
The first two players are retired in order. They are each intercepted by an 
an NKVD agent. Willie bats last and fails to prolong the game. He departs with an agent. Philip is alone and reads an unfinished letter to his sweetheart in America and recalls their life together.

Willie Doonan A3S1 - Baseball Game

Piano Quartet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin and Piano
Work in 4 movements
Commissioned and Premiered by Chelsea Chamber Ensemble
Revised 2019

Piano Quartet

Nicholas Skedgell - b. 1952
is a concert music composer whose work has been performed by leading musicians, including members of the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Elmar Oliveira, Dale Clevenger, Leonard Raver, Orchestra New England and presented at Carnegie Hall, Yale University, Brooklyn College and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. He is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, a student of Nicolas Flagello, violin with Louis Carlini and a member of ASCAP since 1974.

Willie Doonan A3S1 - Baseball Game

Nicholas Skedgell

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