Taha Salmanpour - "Autumn Dream" (A Piece for Acoustic Guitar in D-flat major)

In "The Ray and its Shadow", the piano part from "Chiaroscuro", a withdrawn work for trumpet and piano,  is underpinned by more accompanimental music for alto flute, bass clarinet and cello.  

During the work's seventh and final section, the piano’s music achieves its goal of total registral separation, and fragments into chords and increasingly long rests. The cello, at the same time, isolates itself frpom the ensemble, while flute and clarinet (now playing C flute and Bb clarinet) add a third level of activity with music marked “raucous and intrusive”, which uses a high dynamic level and occupies the highest register of both instruments.   In an allegory of the alchemical work, the Ray has been extracted from the Shadow.

The "Ray and its Shadow" was completed in February 1997 and first performed as part of the Modern Britain series at St. Giles, Cripplegate, London on 5th April 1997 by Exposé, directed by Roger Redgate.  It was revised in October 1997, June and July 2004 and August 2014. The first performance of the revised version was given by NOISE [Lisa Cella (flute/alto flute), Robert Zelickman (clarinet/bass clarinet), Franklin Cox (cello) and Christopher Adler (piano), dir. Colin McAlister], on 10th January 2015, at the Atheneum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla CA, as part of the 2015 soundON Festival of New Music. 

The Ray And Its Shadow

Taha Salmanpour - "Autumn Dream" (A Piece for Acoustic Guitar in D-flat major)

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