Work of the Week - Joseph Schwantner: Chasing Light...
On September 20 Joseph Schwantner's Chasing Light… sees its world premiere at Reno, Nevada's Nightingale Concert Hall with the Reno Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Theodore Kuchar. The performance is part of the Ford Made in America program, spearheaded by Meet the Composer and the League of American Orchestras, which provides orchestras with small budgets the opportunity to perform seminal works by contemporary American composers. Joseph Schwantner has been selected as the composer for the second round of this program.
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Chasing Light... is based on and inspired by a poem written by Joseph Schwantner. Explaining his sources, Schwantner comments: "Chasing light... draws its spirit, energy and inspiration from the celebration of vibrant colors and light that penetrate the morning mist as it wafts through the trees in the high New England hills. Like a delicate dance, those images intersected with a brief original poem that helped fire my musical imagination."
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The subsequent performances following the premiere will take place throughout the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 concert season by 59 orchestras representing all 50 States of the USA.
(09/16/2008)
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