2013. 10′

For Chamber Orchestra

Commissioned by Sound Icon; Jeffrey Means, conductor

Instrumentation: Flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, alto baritone saxophone / baritone saxophone, bassoon/contra bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, harp, piano/celeste, cimbalom, 2 percussionists, strings.

SCORE

Program Note:

Note:

"...the air through which we look upon the stars, is in a perpetual tremor; as may be seen by the tremulous motion of shadows cast from high towers, and by the twinkling of the fixed stars. But these stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes which have large apertures. For the rays of light which pass through diverse parts of the aperture, tremble each of them apart, and by means of their various and sometimes contrary tremors, fall at one and the same time upon different points in the bottom of the eye, and their trembling motions are too quick and confused to be perceived severally. And all these illuminated points constitute one broad lucid point, composed of those many trembling points confusedly and insensibly mixed with one another by very short and swift tremors, and thereby cause the star to appear broader than it is, and without any trembling of the whole."

-Issac Newton