four lightscapes (2021)

General Information

Movements:
i. bleak; diffuse
ii. effulgent/refulgent
iii. pale and still
iv. dark

Commissioner: Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra, for Mia Rolland-Bezem
Written: January – April, 2021
Duration: ca. 9’
Instrumentation: Bb cl + tape

Performance History

May 15, 2021: Mia Rolland-Bezem on the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra’s virtual spring concert (Digital Premiere)

Perusal Score

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Program Note

In the Spring of 2021, I was asked to write a piece for the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra’s virtual spring concert. The artistic directors – Emery Kerekes and Jacob Miller – gave the prompt: ‘take us into your room. Show us something you’ve been thinking about lately. With four lightscapes, I aimed to capture the texture and the feel of the various moods of light that fell in my room (‘lightscapes’, perhaps) – as I was concurrently taking a drawing class and thinking often on the unique qualities of light in varying conditions and times of day.