Scoring: pf, vn, va, vc
Duration: 16 mins.
Premiere:
20 December 2000
Warner Concert Hall
Oberlin, Ohio
Program
Notes: (at
times my sadness falls into was written very
quickly during a quite violent winter storm while I was
living in Oberlin. Prior to writing this piece, I had been
experimenting with the creation of suspended textures using
a minimal amount of material and well-blended, homogenous
sound sources (such as strings, organs, accordions, saxophones,
etc.) to create epic-length ambient operas. While these
“operas” are impossible to perform in a concert
setting (the longest one spanned 1445 minutes in performance;
the shortest is 300 minutes), I sought to create a work
which could reflect the gestalt and developmental processes
of my “operas”, and could fit comfortably within
a concert setting. (at times, like its “operatic”
predecessors, uses a minimal amount of material (there are
about 5 chords in the piece) and makes use of the homogeneity
of the piano quartet, in which the strings act as a resonator
to the piano, much like Morton Feldman’s concept of
the “orchestral pedal.”
v.c.
December 2003
Rochester, NY
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