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Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
Cond.: Rengim Gökmen
Soprano: Selva Erdener
Kanun: Tahir Aydoğdu
Şef yardımcısı / Assistant Conductor: Hakan Şensoy
Koro / Chorus: Moskova Oda Orkestrası Korosu / Moscow Chamber Orchestra Chorus
Tonmeister: Tatiana Vinnitskaya

Afife ballet music

Dreams of a River

Illinois Modern Ensemble, Stephen Taylor, conductor.  8 February 2017.
Sonic Illinois Festival, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Cold Horizon, for chamber orchestra, grew out of a piece for vibraphone and piano entitled Cold, which I wrote in Paris in January 2001.  The basic musical ideas and icy, shimmering instrumental colors of Cold have been stretched out into a supple, continuously flowing, and dramatic form, and colored as if seen at twilight under a fading and distant light.  

In a sense, Cold Horizon explores resonance as a model or metaphor for developing musical gestures and forms.  Often resonance is used to create a sense of perspective, reminding us that music takes place not only in time but also in space. Musical lines that are slightly out of alignment shadow each other as they seem to echo in a reverberant space.  Similarly, rhythmic processes and subtle changes of orchestration create the illusion of musical gestures that approach or recede.  The opening of the piece, a quasi-Doppler effect, is one example.  Another typical idea is the filtering of complex harmonies into simple intervals, floating points of stability that form a thread of consonance woven across the span of the piece.  The use of quarter tones blurs the line between harmony and instrumental timbres to create a sense of depth and shadow against the well-tempered, “normal” pitches.

Cold Horizon has passed through a series of incarnations, beginning with an initial sketch premiered in 2002 by the Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon-Provence under Sylvio Gualda at the Centre Acanthes contemporary music festival in France.  The complete piece was premiered in 2003 by the University of California, Berkeley Symphony conducted by David Milnes, followed by a revised and expanded version performed by the Minnesota Orchestra at their Composer Institute in 2006 with David Alan Miller.  I revised the piece one last time in early 2017 for this performance, making some minor adjustments to its pacing, clarifying the orchestration and several harmonic details, and pruning back some pretentious complexity in the notation.

Cold Horizon (2017 Version)

Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
Cond.: Rengim Gökmen
Soprano: Selva Erdener
Kanun: TahirAydoğdu
Şef yardımcısı / Assistant Conductor: Hakan Şensoy
Koro / Chorus: Moskova Oda Orkestrası Korosu / Moscow Chamber Orchestra Chorus
Tonmeister: Tatiana Vinnitskaya

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