This Old Place (2015) - 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] Instrumentation (3233/4321/timp/3perc/hp/pno/strings) Commissioned by the Yale Symphony Orchestra for its 50th Anniversary Season Duration 10 minutes  Program Note 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