Close Your Eyes
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 10:52
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Schott
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $68.00; (digital) - $34.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II-III
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Euphonium I-II-III
Percussion (3 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos (2)
- Congas (2)
- Crash Cymbals
- Pebbles (glass, small bag)
- Temple Blocks
Soprano and Alto choir
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Close your eyes (for mixed ensemble, 2020) is a phrase my then-five-year-old son Albert once said, before he handed me a surprise present. I also think of it as an invitation to experiencing a world illuminated by sounds.
Close your eyes explores the idea of “the living score” in which the notation serves as a reference for a possible interpretation and a point of departure. After the notation is internalized through rehearsals and group discussions, the piece is to be performed at least twice, once from the score, and once from memory. The latter explores the possibility of making the score “alive” by altering some parameters of the written version.
Close your eyes was commissioned by the North Carolina NewMusic Initiative, East Carolina University, whose Symphonic Wind Ensemble and vocalists, under the direction of William Staub, gave its world premiere on October 23, 2021, in Greenville, North Carolina.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- East Carolina University (Greenville, N.C.) Chamber Ensemble (William Staub, conductor) - 23 October 2021 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Ascension (2008)
- Close Your Eyes (2021)
- Garden Six (1996)
- March Cathedral (1998)
- YUAN (2008)
Resources
- Lei Liang website Accessed 23 October 2021