Alternative Energy

An "Energy Symphony" for orchestra - Proceed to purchase if you would like to buy a study score.   Conductor's Score and Performance Parts for RENTAL ONLY. Please send an email to info@aphramusic.com to request a rental application form. Approximate Duration: 30' YouTube Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVIR_TmnnU Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/riccardo-muti-conducts-mason/id805807947 PROGRAM NOTES Alternative Energy is an ‘energy symphony’ spanning four movements and hundreds of years. Beginning in a rustic Midwestern junkyard in the late 19th Century, the piece travels through ever greater and more powerful forces of energy — a present-day particle collider, a futuristic Chinese nuclear plant — until it reaches a future Icelandic rainforest, where humanity’s last inhabitants seek a return to a simpler way of life. The idée fixe that links these disparate worlds appears early in “Ford’s Farm, 1896.” This melody is heard on the fiddle — conjuring a figure like