Strings and Time (1992-96) 11'
13 Strings (8Vn, 2Vla, 2Vc, D.B.)
commissioned by Mis en Loge String Orchestra
Premiere: February 4, 1997, Tokyo
Mis en Loge String Orchestra; Yoichi Sugiyama, conductor
Strings and Time is comprised of three movements. The first movement was composed in 1992, the second in 1993, and the third in 1996. I did not have a plan to write three movements at the beginning of composition. However, in the process of composition, after the finishing the first piece I felt the need for a second, and finishing the second, I again felt the need for a third.
There is a certain soothing quality that is characteristic of strings, and thus it fills me with a sense of possibility, to express the eternity from the distant past into the unknown future.
A query from myself, here and now, to an infinite. |
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