Illuminating Arches (PDF)

Illuminating Arches (PDF)

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Illuminating Arches (2023-24)
String Sextet
Commissioned by the Curtis Institute of Music
Duration ca. 9 min.
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Program Note:
Illuminating Arches was inspired by a recent hiking trip in Arches National Park. I arrived an hour before sunrise, hiking into our first location in total darkness, and sat back and watched as the colors started to change and the park surrounding us slowly revealed itself. I wrote the following reflection in my notebook later that afternoon, which served as the guiding template for the structure of the work:

Beginning within the Double Arch, climbing up to nestle ourselves within its curves, the grooves of the earth, we looked out onto the park as dark slowly turned to light, blue to yellow to red. Blinding. Illuminating the space that contained us. Not being able to see the depth or hue or scope or curvature of the arch, our perch, until hiking back out and across to the Windows, watching the glow of the sun get ever more intense, the shadows dancing, shapeshifting, warming. Chasing the sun.