WIND ENSEMBLE
Tributaries
Tributaries – a programmatic work – depicts the experience of floating down a river on an inner tube. The impetus of this piece was the idea of tributaries funneling into a main river, which proceeds until diverging into yet more tributaries. The subject – you – begins wading reluctantly into the river, wondering what its current has in store for you. Eventually, you find yourself in the center for the river where the speed of the current is at its strongest. Perhaps in this time, you are overwhelmed by the sheer power and magnitude of the river. The current steadily slows as you watch the river break back off into yet more tributaries. In these final moments, by observing familiar processes which now occur in the opposite direction, you are reminded of how you arrived at your current state.
Below is a crude drawing of how the thematic plot is achieved musically: Portraits of the Southern Sky |
A multi-movement work written for wind ensemble composed during the years 2010-12. Portraits of the Southern Sky was performed in its entirety for the first time on March 30, 2014 by the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony at the University of North Texas Murchison Performing Arts Center under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Williams. Prior to that performance, the first movement of this work, Cumulonimbus, was performed in Carrollton, Texas by the Hebron High School Wind Symphony under the direction of Andy Sealy, at their Spring Concert in May of 2013.
On the piece, Greg writes:
"The initial idea for Portraits of the Southern Sky was inspired by simply imagining a man lying on his back in solitude utterly transfixed in the scene unfolding above him - the sky's portrait."
On the piece, Greg writes:
"The initial idea for Portraits of the Southern Sky was inspired by simply imagining a man lying on his back in solitude utterly transfixed in the scene unfolding above him - the sky's portrait."
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