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- Nico Muhly
It Remains to be Seen (2006)
- St. Rose Music Publishing (World)
Commissioned by Boston University Tanglewood Institute
- 3+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4.4.2+btbn.1/timp.5perc/2hp.pf/str
- 11 min
Programme Note
It Remains to be Seen was written for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s 40th Anniversary Gala in July 2006. The piece begins with a chord identical to the one at the end of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite and proceeds into a series of charged nocturnal episodes. I wanted to treat the feeling of having just heard music, and being expected to make one’s own – referencing the experience of leaving a BSO concert at the shed, walking back to BUTI on a curvy back road, arguing about music in pairs and threes, and at the sign of bright headlights from behind, reorganizing in single file as a car filled with happy concert-goers speeds by. The piece is a nine-minute navigation of an excited, occasionally illuminated, dark road filled with arguing, cars, fragments of remembered music, and a constant, propulsive pulse.
Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly
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