"Evergreen" by Robert Honstein, performed by arx duo (WORLD PREMIERE) скачать в хорошем качестве

"Evergreen" by Robert Honstein, performed by arx duo (WORLD PREMIERE)

World Premiere of "Evergreen", by Robert Honstein for percussion duo 1 - Fading Light 2 - Sleeping Land 3 - Shortest Day 4 - Longest Night 5 - Rosy-Fingered Dawn Presented by Sustain Music Project Performed by arx duo (Garrett Arney and Mari Yoshinaga) Artwork by Eva Vernitska Evergreen And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. -Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day Evergreen is a thirty minute, five movement work for Marimba, Vibraphone and Glockenspiel. I finished writing this piece in December 2020, approaching the longest night of a very long year. Thinking about the experience of isolation and hardship brought on by a global pandemic, I found hope and solace in Cooper’s poem ‘The Shortest Day’. Her words reminded me of our ancient relationship to the Solstice. How for many cultures, across many generations, it has been a time of celebration and joy. A time where in the midst of dark days and bitter cold we feel the possibility, indeed the inevitability of light triumphing over darkness. For me, the sense of hope and joy expressed in this story, served as a beautiful reminder of our collective resiliency in the face of great difficulty. Over the course of five movements, Evergreen anticipates, celebrates, and looks beyond the solstice. Beginning with Fading Light the music builds intensity with ever expanding intervallic patterns, creating a moody space of anticipation and longing. Sleeping Land, a sparse, nocturnal respite, follows with a moment of quiet contemplation. Shortest Day bursts into an explosion of energy and sound, reflecting the wild celebrations of the solstice itself, while Longest Night, expresses an austere, somewhat somber reminder of the darkness that still envelops the winter landscape. Finally, we arrive at the Rosy-Fingered Dawn. It is a new day and a a quiet optimism emerges. Hushed certitude in the coming light gradually blossoms into a more forceful expression of hope and rebirth. Evergreen was commissioned by arx duo, DoubleBeats, CHannel2 Percussion Duo, The Up:Strike Project - Directed by Matthew Lau and Karen Yu, Taylor Davis, Russell Fisher, Jose-Antonio Caballero, Johnathon Westcott, Darrien Spicak, Orion Wysocki, Eric Whitmer, If + When. It was premiered March 6, 2021 by the Sustain Music Project, Seattle, WA.