Symphony No. 3: "Celebration"
Symphony No. 3: "Celebration"
Orchestra and Chorus 3(3=picc)222 - 4331 - timp, 3 perc, hp - SATB chorus -strings
Composer's Note:
Symphony No. 3, initially titled "Celebration," was composed in 2001 to honor the 75th anniversary of the founding of the University of Vermont's music department. The entire score was revised and reorchestrated by the composer in 2024.
The music incorporates a poem by John Taggart: Slow Song for Mark Rothko. In a retrospective of John Taggart’s poetry Peter O’leary wrote that “consideration of his work must necessarily involve the recognition that repetition is what rings the changes in the poems and what signals those changes themselves that the poems enable.
Repetition can be a symptom of anxiety, a reflection of compulsion, but can also encourage resolute transformation. Formatively, my symphony incorporates the simultaneous repetition of different quantities, introducing plasticity and allowing organic extension of basic sonic material. The sectioned design, in one uninterrupted movement approximates the tripartite structure of the poem.
Authored (or revised): 2000
Published: 2025
Text source: John Taggart
Duration (minutes): 20
First performance: 2001 in Burlington, VT
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