Five Crystalline Miniatures for Horn Cello and Bass

Premiere of my "Five Crystalline Miniatures for Horn Cello and Bass, opus 184" at the Regina Symphony Orchestra's new music concert January 19th

This work is in five short movements

1: Introduction: At the bus station (music from a dream)
2: Allegro (I ching scales 5 & 25 v.2)
3: Star light (based on a graphic spiral pattern)
4: Impetuoso - madly; wildly (based on a graphic triangle pattern)
5: Accelerando (based on a graphic star pattern)

Each new work takes me closer to my ability to write music that I love, i am not interested in writing music that sounds like anything else that has been written, nor am I interested if my music sound like someone else's. Composing for me is a precess of self exploration.

Some of the most important changes I have made recently are:

1) Recognizing that I like to see the overall picture before I write a piece; the form,

2) I like visual associations to my music

3) I like working in free flowing forms, and I have been very happy to uncover my work "Mind without Matter" for seven players which I wrote in 1979; my freshman year at college.

 

1: Introduction: At the bus station (music from a dream):

2: Allegro (I ching scales 5 & 25 v.2)

3: Star light (based on a graphic spiral pattern)

4: Impetuoso - madly; wildly (based on a graphic triangle pattern)

5: Accelerando (based on a graphic star pattern)

The program from the premiere:

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