Bruce MacCombie’s Light Upon the Turning Leaf Reprised in Washington DC

On Saturday, February 12, the 21st Century Consort revive Bruce MacCombie’s new work for chamber ensemble Light Upon the Turning Leaf in a concert performance at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium in Washington, DC. The composer comments on the work, which premiered in August of 2010 at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival:

The title reflects my appreciation for light and energy of the sort which can be sometimes gained by meditation as well as by music and poetry, all of which can help to provide a sense of wholeness, strength and well being to life’s journey, despite the challenges of aging and of coping with ailments along this journey’s path.

This work contains melodic and harmonic materials which are related to two earlier pieces, Still Life for woodwind quintet and Samsara Rounds for large orchestra. As in those pieces, a meditative opening leads to a slightly off-kilter tune taking a rather obsessive journey through various instrumental combinations of the ensemble.

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Details on the concert program can be found at www.21stcenturyconsort.com.

Bruce MacCombie
Light Upon the Turning Leaf (2010)
for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and piano
10'