Circle Cannot Close, The

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Subtitle: Nine Adventures on the Arrow of Time


General Info

Year: 2021
Duration: c. 19:40
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Movements

Nine movements


Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

“One could describe The Circle Cannot Close as an A1BA2 form -- B being Invention V’s mercurial rumination. However, A2 ’s reversal of A1 order, inverting of A1’s lines and changing their registrations in relationship to each other, and its added interpolations diminishes, if not thwarts, the ABA form’s usual brand of closure. Here, formal rigor is but a stealthy conduit of the music’s journey:

A veiled fanfare heralds an uncertain future —
Inventions I-IV — by turns questing, volatile, elegiac, mercurial —
Invention V — improvisatory, meditative —
Seeking to return, Invention VI echoes IV, VII revisits III, VIII mirrors II,
IX shadows I — familiar path, but altered: formerly ascending melodies descend,
lines switch places, harmonies and colors change…

No arrival, no return — I’s exuberantly anticipatory bells darken to uncertainty, resignation, acceptance, elegy — chastened by life, perhaps.

In these madrigalesque miniatures, every player is a soloist.

- Program Note from New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble concert program, 26 October 2021


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State Ratings

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Performances

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  • New England Conservatory (Boston, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (Charles Peltz, conductor) - 26 October 2021 *Premiere Performance*


Works for Winds by This Composer


Resources

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