Full title: Just an accident? A requiem for Anton Webern and other victims of the absurd, opus 9 (first version: 1983, revised: 1985). A requiem for soprano, narrator; large orchestra (with combo): 3-3-3-saxophone alto-2 / 4-3-cornet-3-1 / 3 perc. / piano / strings: 14-12-9-8-6+solo (for the combo). The first version (chamber music) was made in 1983. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversity of the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, it was revised and performed again. Staar and Levy received the "Ernst Krenek-Award from the city of Vienna in 1986.
Anton Webern (1883-1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Alan Levy (1932 - 2004) was a writer, editor and teacher.