Superimpose
a study in motion and gesture
for orchestra - 2011, ca 15 minutes
Premiered by the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ya Hui Cheng:
excerpt 2: slow, mysterious, calm
excerpt 1: agitato and climactic
Instrumentation - Full Orchestra
3(3=pc),2,3(3=bcl),3(3=cbsn). 4331. Timp+4*. Hp, Pno, Strings.
*version for 3 percussionists available
Awards
ASCAP Morton Gould Award Finalist
3rd Place for The American Prize in Orchestral Music
Northwestern University Composition Competition Winner
Program Note
The music in SUPERIMPOSE is constructed from many small ideas and themes being constantly layered and interchanged with each other. The piece opens with these ideas combining to form a leviathan-like texture of brute force and earth-shaking intent. Eventually the musical materials blow each other apart, and a calm mood takes over. The themes and motives are heard as lonely, isolated characters, searching for something elsewhere. A third large section begins with my ideas once again merging into a behemoth sound, this time putting themselves together with a more noble and victorious result.