Instrumentation: 2 trpt, hn, tbn, tuba and 2 trpt, hn, tbn, tuba (6:15)
Commissioned and premiered in 1998 by The Tuolumne Brass, a San Francisco brass quintet active in the 1990s.
This new version for two brass quintets (2023) plays off the antiphonal nature of the Renaissance brass music of Giovanni Gabrieli that he composed for the architecture of the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice.
Instrumentation: piano trio: violin, cello and piano (14:30)
Clouds and Flames was commissioned by the Rome-based ensemble Piccola Accademia degli Specchi.
The title Clouds and Flames and the names of the movements come from lyrical moments in Colum McCann’s novel Let the Great World Spin.
The movements, inspired by events in the novel, are a set of impressions on loss, remembrance and rebirth, and, a meditation on the tightrope wire walk of Philippe Petit between the World Trade Center towers on August 7, 1974 culminating in events surrounding 9/11.
Instrumentation: Flute, clarinet (Bb), violin, cello, mallets (vibes, marimba, glockenspiel [F3-C6]), and piano
First Performance: Boston University, 1988
ALEA III, Theodore Antoniou, cond.