A Cosmos in Stone, Respawning
for orchestra (2+picc.2+eh.2+bcl.2+cbsn-4.3.2+bass.1-timp.3perc.pno-hp-str)
or chamber ensemble (1.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-timp.1perc.pno-1.1.1.1.1)
Commissioned by the Charleston Symphony for their Magnetic South New Music Series
Premiere (chamber): Charleston Symphony - Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, conductor
October 12, 2018 - Simons Centre Recital Hall - Charleston, SC
Premiere (full orch.): USC Symphony - Donald Crockett, conductor
February 20, 2019 - Bovard Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA
Duration: 11'
or chamber ensemble (1.1.1.1-1.1.1.0-timp.1perc.pno-1.1.1.1.1)
Commissioned by the Charleston Symphony for their Magnetic South New Music Series
Premiere (chamber): Charleston Symphony - Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, conductor
October 12, 2018 - Simons Centre Recital Hall - Charleston, SC
Premiere (full orch.): USC Symphony - Donald Crockett, conductor
February 20, 2019 - Bovard Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA
Duration: 11'
A Cosmos in Stone, Respawning establishes different musical gestures and materials that function as representations of different actions and features – it’s through the interplay, fragmentation, rearrangement, and development of these features that a musical narrative is attempted to be created. A Cosmos in Stone, Respawning was commissioned by the Charleston Symphony as part of its Magnetic South new music series and is dedicated to my former teacher Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, to whom I so much of my expression.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
- February 20, 2019 - USC Symphony - Donald Crockett, conductor - Bovard Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA (full orchestra)
- October 12, 2018 - Charleston Symphony - Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, conductor - Simons Centre Recital Hall - Charleston, SC (chamber orchestra)