Climb (2015-16)
3(3=picc.)3(3=e.hn.)3(3=b.cl.)3(3=cbsn.) / 4231 / timp.3perc. / piano / strings
8'
3(3=picc.)3(3=e.hn.)3(3=b.cl.)3(3=cbsn.) / 4231 / timp.3perc. / piano / strings
8'
Climb is a journey and an elegy. There is darkness in the music, but it also glows and ascends. It is a piece about self-discovery.
I thought a lot about Henry David Thoreau while working on this piece, and the music is dedicated to his memory. Besides his conservationism, Thoreau wrote extensively about the the process of waking up and discovering one's individuality. As he proclaims in Walden, "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." Thoreau encourages his fellow Americans to find their own Waldens. Writing music is my Walden.
Performances:
-Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, April 23 and 24, 2016.
I thought a lot about Henry David Thoreau while working on this piece, and the music is dedicated to his memory. Besides his conservationism, Thoreau wrote extensively about the the process of waking up and discovering one's individuality. As he proclaims in Walden, "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." Thoreau encourages his fellow Americans to find their own Waldens. Writing music is my Walden.
Performances:
-Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, April 23 and 24, 2016.