Mirages

instrumentation: symphony orchestra (3.3.3.3; 4.3.3.1; timp.3.cel.hrp; 12.12.10.10.8)

year: 2008

 

program notes
I wrote this piece between May and September 2008 as a summer project. I decided to compose a piece for myself, without concerns of playability, or the usual specific-performance-related limitations. I was interested in playing with colors, using both orchestration and harmony to do so. The piece consists of brush-strokes across the orchestra, that are simultaneously broad and extremely detailed. Time is also frequently treated as a malleable, frozen entity.

 
performance history

Not performed (yet!)

 
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