Radical Light
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Subtitle: For winds, piano and percussion
General Info
Year: 1990
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Kaiser Productions
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental | Score - $38.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba
Piano
Percussion I-II
(Percussion list incomplete)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Poem Symphonies is a set of orchestral movements, each inspired by the work of a contemporary American poet. The symphonies are not attempts to set poetry to music, but rather each proceeds from a poem, using the visions, images, and atmosphere of the poem as a point of departure.
Radical Light is inspired by the poem "He Held Radical Light" by A. R. Ammons.
He held radical light
as music in his skull: music
turned, as
over ridges immanences of evening light rise, turned
back over the furrows of his brain
into the dark, shuddered, shot out again
in long swaying swirls of sound:
reality had little weight in his transcendence so he
had trouble keeping
his feet on the ground, was terrified by that
and liked himself, and others, mostly under roofs:
nevertheless, when the
light churned and changed
his head to music, nothing could keep him
off the mountains, his
head back, mouth working,
wrestling to say, to cut loose
from the high, unimaginable hook: released, hidden from the stars, he ate, burped, said he was like any one
of us: demanded he
was like any one of us.
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Video: Reference recording and perusal score
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Indiana University (Bloomington) Wind Ensemble (Stephen Pratt, conductor) - April 2001
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Beyond the Brass Gates (1998)
- Earthdance Concerto (2001)
- End of Summer (1990)
- Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks (2004)
- Five Elizabethan Dances (2011)
- Jug Blues and Fat Pickin' (1986)
- Life of the Party (2000)
- Nativitas! — Fantasy on Perotin's 12th Century Alleluia (1996)
- Outsider (2004)
- Radical Light (1990)
- Southwinds (1994)
- Spinning Rounds (1993)
- The Waste Land: Four Movements after T.S. Eliot (1972)
Resources
- Don Freund website. Accessed 30 May 2024