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This orchestral work explores how small, quick, simple movements can initiate a much larger action. This is clearly shown at the beginning when sforzandi in the low strings quickly fill in a G minor chord, turning it into a dense and ominous cluster or sound band from which other harmonies and eventually free gestural material emerge. Over the course of the work the "harmonies" become less block-like and more lyrical (even in a 19th century sense), and the "gestural" is reduced to ostinati and then simple pulses at the end. Click on links below to see and hear.
recording (with Garritan instruments for Finale)