as if the horizon
Instrumentation: solo carillon
Year Composed: 2015
Duration: 10 minutes
Program Notes:
These three pieces are musical explorations of background and foreground, closeness and distance. The title is drawn from Thoreau's Walden, an excerpt to which I was introduced by the composer Jeffrey Roberts:
“At a sufficient distance over the woods, the bell sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp being swept.”
The pieces were written for, and are dedicated to the incomparable carollineur, Tiffany Ng, who first performed the pieces at the Beiaard Concerten at Sint-Germanustoren, Tienen, Belgium.
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