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These Days

May 18, 2016

Soprano, Minkyung Lee beautifully captures the emotional essence of this song in her stunning performance on the Lux Musicae “Soloists” April 4, 2017 concert program at the Palmetto Center for the Arts.
These days – text

At Night

May 18, 2016

A reflection and questioning of life transitions and loves. At Night-text
Video features a recent InterXChange concert performance by Melanie Mitrano, with Gerson Galante on clarinet in São Paulo, Brazil. (A score of this version is available to purchase via the Score link.)
SoundCloud track is the world premiere performance by mezzo-soprano Donna Balson.

As A Tear Falls

May 18, 2016

World News – carnival spin

May 17, 2016

Program note: Commenting on the media carnival spin overlaid onto the news.

Traveling Dreams

May 17, 2016

Program note: Emotional memory of travels, painted with a brush of modal sound. (Later expanded to “Memories of Place” scored for chamber orchestra)

Street City

May 17, 2016

Evocative of the elemental dissonance, repetition and rhythmic pulse of the city street sounds, as well as, the cyclical moods as day transitions to quieter night hours, then picks up rhythmically once again as morning approaches.

Running Late

May 17, 2016

Chamber version of the first of a set of three sequential nocturnes for orchestra entitled “Disturbances.“ (Premiered 2000, NYC)

Resisting Reason

May 17, 2016

Resistance to the application of logical reasoning to emotional complexities. – RW
(Video features a 2001 NYC concert performance: Jacqueline Leclair, ob; Richard Vrotney, bsn; Theresa Salomon, vln; Liuh-Wen Ting, vla; Ariane Lallemand, vc.)
(Score purchase link is the version for wind quintet.)

Dark Dreams

May 17, 2016

Dark Dreams was inspired by a painting by Jared FitzGerald, and is dedicated to him. The germinating idea for the piece relates to its image of an angel in the moonlight, wrestling with a shadowy figure. “Dark Dreams” extends the metaphor to the struggles with “emotional demons” confronted in life. – RW

Jacob Wrestling the Angel

Painting by Jared FitzGerald

A Song Alone

May 17, 2016

Memories of Place

May 17, 2016

Memories of Place arose from emotional memories of a time traveling and living in Greece, Egypt and Turkey. It is a recollection of that time, not as a literal transcription of melodies, but rather as an emotional memory of aural textures, painted with a broad brush of modal sound. – RW

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