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- Aaron Jay Kernis
Symphony In Waves (1989)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
Commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
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- 30 min
Programme Note
N.B. — Symphony in Waves requires a minimum of 6 to 8 hours rehearsal time.
Composer Note:
Prior to writing this work in 1989 I never imagined I would write a symphony. It seemed such an outdated and irrelevant form. But since that time I've become increasingly excited by the communicative potential, by the highly varied ideas and emotions, latent in traditional forms. I hope to find what 'symphony' means to me, to define the form for myself, by bringing my own experiences and passions to it.
I am not dealing with waves in a strictly programmatic sense. I think about waves of sound in addition to those of wind and water. Each movement uses some aspect of wave motion: swells and troughs of dynamics, densities, and instrumental color: the 'sounds' of light broken into flickering bits by water's action.
— Aaron Jay Kernis
Composer Note:
Prior to writing this work in 1989 I never imagined I would write a symphony. It seemed such an outdated and irrelevant form. But since that time I've become increasingly excited by the communicative potential, by the highly varied ideas and emotions, latent in traditional forms. I hope to find what 'symphony' means to me, to define the form for myself, by bringing my own experiences and passions to it.
I am not dealing with waves in a strictly programmatic sense. I think about waves of sound in addition to those of wind and water. Each movement uses some aspect of wave motion: swells and troughs of dynamics, densities, and instrumental color: the 'sounds' of light broken into flickering bits by water's action.
— Aaron Jay Kernis
Media
Symphony in Waves: I. Continuous Wave
Symphony in Waves: II. Scherzo
Symphony in Waves: III. Still Movement
Symphony in Waves: IV. Intermezzo
Symphony in Waves: V. Finale
