PROGRAM NOTE
I Call to Order
II Promenades
Composers and architects often remark on the kinship between the fields of music and architecture. On my first visit to the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago in the spring of 2012, walking around and taking in the beautiful space that had already then begun a life of such grand promise, I found myself thinking that space, like time, exists in the universe independently of human intervention. But an architect, and a composer, can turn space, and time, into concrete, “living”, “breathing”, “forms”. The vast and abstract concepts of time and space, almost beyond human comprehension, thus are transformed into meaning. My “Logan Promenades”, composed in celebration of the opening of the Logan Center on October 11, 2012, pays a modest homage to this notion.
Intended not so much as a concert piece but as a sound celebration, it can be performed in or outdoors, in an enclosed space or on two balconies, its joyful noise—melodies and intertwining lines carried by two trumpets happily bouncing off each other—proclaiming the onset of festivities.
—Shulamit Ran
Performance note
The two movements may be performed individually or as a pair.
If both movements are performed, spatial placement can be integrated into the presentation, especially if performed in a concert setting. For example, the first movement may be played with both players at opposite sides of the stage, partly facing one another, followed by the second movement with both players at the center of the stage. In such a situation, there should be four music stands placed ahead of time. Other configurations are also possible and encouraged.
INFORMATION
Composed in celebration of the opening of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
The University of Chicago
Premiere: October 11, 2012
Logan Center Performance Hall
Matt and Kari Lee, trumpets
Duration: c. 4’
SHEET MUSIC
Available from your favorite sheet music seller, or directly from Theodore Presser.