This Old Place

This Old Place, Eric Nathan (2015) 10'for orchestra This Old Place is an homage to old places – those in the physical world, one’s personal life and also in music. I have frequently found inspiration from the sense of a physical place, trying to recapture my emotional reaction to its atmosphere. When I enter a historic space, I am moved by the idea of being part of a shared past with those who have come before me. These feelings are different from those that I feel when I return to “personal” old places, which may not be as old but which feel like “home,” where a part of my identity was formed. And then there are places in pieces of music that can bring back memories more vibrantly than can anything in the physical world. This piece is specifically in homage to spaces that can encapsulate for us these three kinds of places.  For myself, concert halls are spaces that can surround me with a sense of history, a feeling of being “home” and many vivid musical memories of concerts I have hea