Chasing Light...

for orchestra

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Chasing Light … draws its spirit, energy and inspiration from the celebration of vibrant colours 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. Joseph Schwantner

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Joseph Schwantner has been chosen as the composer for the second round of the Ford Made in America program, the nation’s largest cocommissioning consortium of orchestras, which provides regional orchestras the opportunity to perform seminal works by contemporary American composers.

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 colours 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’.

Orchestral Cast

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Content

I Sunrise Ignites Daybreak's Veil (Con forza, feroce con bravura)
II Calliope's Rainbowed Song (lontano)
III A Kaleidoscope Blooms (lacrimosa)
IV Morning's Embrace Confronts the Dawn (lontano...leggiero)

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Title:

Chasing Light...

for orchestra

Edition:

Performance material

Level of difficulty:

intermediate

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2008

Duration:

22 ′

World Premiere:

September 20, 2008 · Reno, NV (USA)
Nightingale Concert Hall
Conductor: Theodore Kuchar · Reno Chamber Orchestra

Commissioned work :

A Ford Made in America Commission, supported by: The Made in America Consortium, Ford Motor Company Fund, League of American Orchestras, and Meet The Composer, Inc.