RISE (2013, rev. 2022)

Rise is a brief orchestral essay on moving upward. The music is one extended ramp, an awakening followed by a brief fall, landing somewhere different then where it began. It is also a meditation on the idea of the pastoral. From Vivaldi to Strauss, there is a long tradition of evoking the pastoral landscape in symphonic music. What does it mean to romanticize nature in the post-industrial, climate-changing 21st century? Perhaps this explains the somewhat haunting mood of the piece. There is a celebration of the natural world, but also an unsettled feeling that never resolves.

‘Rise’ comes from material used in ‘Four Midwinter Interludes’ and was premiered June 7, 2014 by the American Composers Orchestra at the DiMenna Center, New York, NY.

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December 2-3, 2022 51 Walden Performing Arts Center, Concord, MA. Concord Orchestra.

June 7, 2014 DiMenna Center, New York, NY. American Composers Orchestra, George Manahan, Conductor.