Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Beautiful Performance.

It was a wonderful evening at the Machias Bay Chamber Concerts in Machias, Maine on Tuesday, July 2. The wonderful trio Eight Strings & a Whistle performed the work I composed for them last year, “...and nothing remains the same”. 
 

The short work is an essay on change and the ephemeral nature of our world. The opening unison note and apparently static chords feature the “white” sounds of string harmonics and non-vibrato flute. These evolve into individual instrumental lines, gradually becoming more expressive and distinct. The instruments take turns breaking away into their own short solo cadenzas, leading to a section of counterpoint of instrumental gestures. The work ends as the instrumental lines dissolve into fleeting, vaporous scale passages.
 

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