Thursday, June 14, 2018

Symphony #7

My seventh symphony is 31 minutes long, and consists of four tone poems: Water, Air, Earth, and Fire. I wrote in in May to December of 2017. Here is the New England Philharmonic's premiere of it in April, 2019, Richard Pittman conducting. Water depicts flowing water and the reflection of sunlight on water; Air is airy, and has a heterophonic trumpet fanfare in it; Earth develops stark crescendo gestures and overlapping falling lines; Fire is about a fire catching and then smoldering.