in shadows, in silence
Gregg Wramage
About this work:
Recipient of the Collage New Music Natalie and Murray S. Katz Composition Prize and the CUNY Graduate Center Robert Starer Composition Award. Premiered by eighth blackbird, 7/02. The chamber orchestra version was premiered by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, 7/03. Published by the composer. For further information about this work please contact Gregg Wramage at: gwramage@hotmail.com, 718-238-9485, 28 Marine Ave., Apt. 5H, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Program note: The music of in shadows, in silence was inspired by certain ideas I’ve developed recently regarding memory and the past. In the months before I began work on the piece I realized that my memories of earlier periods of my life were most strongly stimulated by shadows and silences. As I started to sketch the work, shadows and silences acted as portals through which I would pass from the world of the present into the world of the past. In one sense, the two contrasting musics found in this work are representative of the emotional and expressive qualities I have come to associate with each of these two distinct spiritual worlds.
Version: sextet
Year composed: 2002
Duration: 00:10:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Other Combinations, 6-9 players
Instrumentation: 1 Flute, 1 Clarinet, 1 Percussion (General), 1 Piano, 1 Violin, 1 Cello
Instrumentation notes: Flute doubles piccolo and alto flute, clarinet doubles E-flat clarinet and B-flat bass clarinet.