"Opening" (2021) - For Orchestra

Performance Parts are Rental Only: Please email info@nathanartsmusic.com for a price quote, giving the name of your ensemble and performance date[s]. Please also list which version of the piece you are requesting (i.e. with two or three trumpets). Recording: Instrumentation  For Orchestra (3333/5331/timp/2perc/hp/strings) Commissioned by The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Ken-David Masur, Music Director, for the opening of the Bradley Symphony Center For premiere performances October 1-3, 2021 on the 2021-22 season-opening at the Bradley Symphony Center with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conducted Ken-David Masur Duration: 8 minutes Program Note Opening juxtaposes music of stillness and activity in a series of broadening gestures that unfurl over the course of its eight-minute trajectory. It asks us to listen to ourselves in the space that we inhabit together. Solo players are placed around the hall surrounding