2023. 22’

I. Awakening

II. Incantation

III. Mystic Circles

IV. Shadow Procession

Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets in C, to trombones, 1 tuba, 2 percussion, harp, piano / celeste, and strings. 

Premiere: Boston Modern Orchestra. Gil Rose, conductor.

October 11, 2023.

Jordan Hall. New England Conservatory. Boston, MA.

Clifton Ingram, who wrote notes for the premiere concert program, remarks that the historical underpinnings of the ‘eternal return’ are apt to revisit during a moment of rebuilding and reevaluation after the covid pandemic. Ingram also remarked on the works' ‘pointedly impressionistic gestures’, connected to Debussy’s Jeux being a point of departure, and also noted the finale’s reference to William Kentridge’s Shadow Procession: another allusion and historical reference to the ‘eternal return’. Ingram says of the ending that it, ‘glides with scorrevole fluency but is never lacking in variation.”