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Duration:
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2(Picc.) 2(E.H.) 2(B.Cl.) 2 - 4 2 2 1; Timp. 2Perc. Str.
2(Picc.) 2(E.H.) 2(B.Cl.) 2 - 4 2 2 1; Timp. 2Perc. Str.
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While visiting Marietta in the summer of 1986, I was taken by the beautiful meshing of people with their surroundings, buildings with geography, and contemporary life with an understanding of history. It is this interweaving that I have chosen to depict in Northwest!.
A brief introduction which foreshadows melodic, rhythmic, and structural elements of the composition culminates in an accelerating tutti chordal passage inspired by the opening bars of Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus. The main body of the piece begins with a slow, solemn, ever-climbing invocation for low strings and brass. At its climax, this music is interrupted by an allegro section in constantly descending, highly rhythmic figures in the upper winds and violins.
As the piece progresses, these two seemingly unrelated musics begin to overlap, either by calmly accompanying each other, rudely interrupting one another, or carrying on raucous arguments. While doing so, they begin to exchange their harmonic and melodic identities. Finally, when the two ideas completely overlap, the tutti chordal passage from the introduction is recapitulated, this time leading to a final highly ornamented chorale.
-- R.C.
-- The Cincinnati Post
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