Re-Release 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronsky, Conductor
Score available through Subito Music Distribution
Program note: Reflecting on a first invitation to dance, and the continuation of the dance of love. … a tenderness of touch; … a lingering embrace; … dancing a circular space; … a song of two. –RW
Reversing Mirrors in the Quiet
Release 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, Moravian Philharmonic, Petr Vronsky, conductor.
Program note: The intangibility of perceptions – the quiet subtle shifting of perceptions between reflection, translucence, and transparency. – RW
Video concept rendering: “A Time in Place, A Place in Mind,” for a large-scale, illuminated mixed media installation, with audio of “Reversing Mirrors in the Quiet.”
Memories of Place
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
Long Division
I. Pulses of Distraction
II. Empty Corners
III. Pulling Apart
Chromatic, strong tonal centers, neo-romantic and minimalist influences, atmospheric textures and rhythmic pulses without traditional harmonic development. Traces the stages of the dissolution of a relationship. In Mvt 3, all is irrevocably set in motion.
Fast Through Dark Winds
Released 2/12/2016: Dream Vapors – selected works for orchestra, Navona Records, Moravian Philharmonic, Petr Vronsky, Conductor
Score available through Subito Music Distribution
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.
Some time after composing this, I realized that the dream was a subliminal metaphor for the profound helplessness I was feeling as a caregiver and the need for acceptance in witnessing my mother’s descent into vascular dementia. – RW
Confluences
Released 2008: Made in the Americas, Volume 1 – ERMMedia
Recorded 2008: Millennium Symphony, Robert Ian Winstin, Conductor
In Confluences rhythmic and melodic lines are drawn, influenced and transformed – creating musical confluences whose predictable elements are offset by unexpected undercurrents and a sense of suspense.
