A Garland for Dr. K. is a set of eleven short compositions created in 1969 for the celebration of the eightieth birthday of Dr Alfred Kalmus, the director of the London branch of Universal Edition.
The Garland was initiated in January 1969 by the London office of Universal Edition, who invited eleven composers with close ties to their director, Dr. Alfred Kalmus, to write short pieces of music to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Bennett's Impromptu was a slow, quietly undulating solo flute piece, while David Bedford delighted the audience with quick-change instrumentation which, amongst other things, required Alan Hacker to play two clarinets simultaneously, and Duncan Druce two violins.
[5] Pousseur's Echos II de votre Faust was mainly a whimsical duet for violin and cello in parallel fourths, with some added material in the piano toward the end.
[3] This proved to be part of the larger work Echos de Votre Faust, for mezzo-soprano, flute, piano, and cello, begun two years earlier.