Light Upon Darkness
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Percussion (duration: 9 minutes)
Gillian R. Menichino
* Premiered at the St. Magnus Festival by the London Sinfonietta Š Copyright Gillian Menichino 2011
Light Upon Darkness
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Percussion (duration: 9 minutes)
Gillian R. Menichino
The essence of the music, opaque, yet translucent, alludes to the idea of purity in light and the weight in darkness as expressed by color contrasts produced from within the ensemble.
“I am not who I am without the fragments of my past Once left behind, made still and unchanged My past has bestowed upon me A culmination of imprints Misshapen fragments; still, unmoved. Light upon darkness pronouncing textures of a fragmented globe, From which only I perceive, light upon darkness, I, that which has been drawn from a past once in motion, set in stone. Where to be still, There she remains, still, her true identity. Possessed by stillness, set in stone, pronounced by light.� Gillian R. Menichino
Light Upon Darkness
Score in C q = 63 dark, eerie
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