Yet Still Night
a nocturne for orchestra
Release 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor
Score available through Subito Music Distribution
(Original Release 2007: Masterworks of the New Era, Volume 11 – ERMMedia-6811 no longer available)
Program note: Recurrent punctuations of an urban soundscape reverberate in the late hours and mix with an emotional insight suffused with sadness and clarity that dreams and conflict will continue, insistent and inconsolable. –RW
Reviews of Yet Still Night
Yet Still Night for orchestra plays out the dichotomy of outward naiveté/underlying sophistication on a larger scale. You first think this is a lullaby, rocking back and forth between D-flat and B-flat in quarter notes that wander around the orchestra. But this is an urban lullaby, and the nocturnal world intrudes in growing chromatic lines and thickening textures. – Kyle Gann, Chamber Music magazine
...Worthington has achingly difficult things to say to us, and her use of chromaticism, especially downward chromatic movement, to convey anguish, is very effective. …Disquiet is obviously Worthington’s aim, and she succeeds superbly. This is a marvelous piece, with subtle orchestration and a bold wash of melody and harmony. – MusicWeb-International, UK
