An Elision of Light
Performed by the Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Jacob Kaminski
Inspired by film score, and written using idioms found frequently in the music of film, An Elision of Light is a programmatic work that highlights various aspects of the orchestral body. Everyone's understanding and interpretation of the piece is expected to differ from their neighbor, allowing for everyone to form their own individual ideas and pictures in their mind.
Elision is the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas, and what better ideas are there than to conjoin light and its inverse.
Performed by the Safety Second Duo (Nick Martinez and Alexis Letourneau)
Variance for Flute and Piano
Variance is defined as "the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent." This piece goes through various moods and dramatic compositional journeys. The story of the music takes you on a sojourn through a field and through a story, always returning to home at the end in a never ending loop.
Variance was commissioned by the Fresh Inc. Festival with help from Steven R. Gerber Trust. This piece premiered virtually on YouTube on June 20, 2020 by the Safety Second Duo