EPHEMERON, for Orchestra
EPHEMERON, for Orchestra
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Concerning EPHEMERON the composer offers the following comment: "My concern was with vanishing characters which find life through, by, and as rhythm. They are gradually separated into movements contrasted by the type of measure applied -- even measure, irregular, as well as their combinations. Separation is also applied by orchestra color. The even measured character is brought to its culmination by the winds and percussion reiterating a harshly attacked sound. The arrival points thus formed lead to a synthesis of the total orchestral mass. These advents are the least ephemeral and most substantially durable sound areas in the work. To me, this composition is a fleeting vision of music as form."
Authored (or revised): 1972
Duration (minutes): 15
First performance: 12/23/72 Foro Italico, Rome, Italian Radio Orchestra of Rome (RAI) Gianpiero Taverna, conductor: U.S. premiere, 7/25/75, The University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, National Music Camp at Interlochen, Uri Mayer, conductor
Historic material for this item is held at Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at the University of Maryland.
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