Thea Musgrave
NIGHT WINDOWS (2008) for oboe and string ensemble
NOVELLO
NIGHT WINDOWS for Oboe and String Ensemble Walking down a darkened street it’s hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people’s lives. The imagination lingers… Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work – though reflecting something of the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings – are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments. Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: Frenzy This work was commissioned by the International Double Reed Society and it is dedicated to Nicholas Daniel.
Instrumentation: Oboe 5 Violin I 4 Violin II 3 Viola 2 Violoncello 1 Contrabass
Duration: circa 13 minutes
to Nicholas Daniel
Night Windows Thea Musgrave
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