Year
2023
Instrumentation
Flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, 3 percussion, harp, piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass
Duration
ca. 9′
Premiere
February 9, 2023
Auer Hall, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Performers
Josh Catanzaro, conductor · Grace Forrai, flute · Ting Chang, clarinet · Sydney Ballensky, horn · Peter Bye, trombone · Conner Viets, percussion · Mihail Babus, percussion · Luca Rodabey, percussion · Evelyn Theinert, harp · Alexey Logunov, piano · Eva Tao, violin · Hyrum Kohler, viola · Dylan Kinneavy, cello · Edmund Song, double bass
Program Note
We are living our present in the flow of history created by transitional events. In this huge flow caused by such events, each individual’s life creates fragments and shows discontinuous movement. Nowadays, with the development of technology, it got easier to recognize continuous movement more than ever before, and sometimes even discontinuous events of individuals transform into a continuous movement.
In this piece, the movement of continuity made by these transformative events and discontinuity that signify the fragmented lives of individuals are expressed through music. As the fragmented movement encounters time in music, it disappears, gets merged, shattered into pieces, or even distorted by entirely changing its color, generating a discontinuous movement. But at the same time, it expands into a transitional movement and transforms into a continuous movement.
