Fast Through Dark Winds
for small orchestra
Released 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, NV6025
Program note: Inspired by the emotional intensity of a dream – careening through dense dark night fog on a bike with no brakes, no control and no visibility, accompanied by alternating interludes of fear and transcendent calm. – RW
Reviews of Fast Through Dark Winds
Fast Through Dark Winds (2013), is, in the words of the composer, “inspired by the emotional intensity of a dream―careening through dense dark night fog on a bike with no brakes, no control and no visibility, accompanied by alternating interludes of fear and transcendent calm.” Careening is indeed a great word to describe the introduction of this piece. Exhibiting minimalist tendencies, this work layers swelling minor third ostinati with chromatic scalar sweeps that are passed through various instruments and tessituras. Worthington swirls these two ideas through the orchestra, dovetailing one statement with the next in the diminuendo of each swell.
– Dr. Anne Neikirk, IAWM Journal Volume 22, No. 2 2016