Tag: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

FAULT LINE for Ensemble for 15 players and optional soprano (2005–06)

PROGRAM NOTE The title Fault Line is a metaphor for the volatility of human existence. Underneath even the most seemingly orderly of lives, fault lines lie, at times totally invisible on the surface, yet capable of erupting with the power to shutter and change all. Fault Line may be heard as a journey of a…
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LEGENDS for Orchestra (1992–93)

PROGRAM NOTE Like the finest of music, certain words in every language seem to have multiple layers of meanings, associations, interpretations. One such word is legend, which, to my mind, seems to evoke a wide range of images and possibilities. On the most obvious level there is, of course, the idea of a story being…
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CHICAGO SKYLINE for Brass and Percussion (1991)

PROGRAM NOTES Chicago Skyline is a short celebratory piece commissioned by Chicago’s Fine Arts Radio Station WFMT for performance by the Chicago Symphony in December 1991, honoring the station’s fortieth anniversary. When I began composing the work, it seemed natural to select the brass and percussion section of the orchestra for a fanfare-like utterance. As…
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