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Duration:
Year:
Tenor
and 12 Players
Ten. 1 1(E.H.) 1 1 - 1 0 0 0; Perc Hp. Str.(2 1 1 1 0)
Ten. 1 1(E.H.) 1 1 - 1 0 0 0; Perc Hp. Str.(2 1 1 1 0)
Catalog no.:
The five poems, taken from two volumes of Barnes's poetry, struck me with their vivid imagery and resonant observations about time and place. They speak to me of reflection and the cathartic power of remembered events - passages. The first and fourth describe overwhelming events of nature (the beautiful Leonids meteor shower and a horrifying hurricane); the second bears witness to a death by drowning; the third and fifth are nostalgic, with the former painting a timeless landscape and the latter reminiscing of lost simplicity.
The musical settings are simple and direct, combining serial and modal techniques to create a broad palette of textures, colors, and tonal inflections. The work is scored for string quintet, woodwind quintet, piano, and percussion.
-- R.C.
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