Susquehanna Sunset

2002 2112/2121/3 perc./strings (CE) Score Get the Music Synthesized recording
Composed for Sheldon Bair and the Susquehanna Symphony.

In Susquehanna Sunset, the opening figure, composed of two rising leaps, is echoed and turned in on itself, acquiring harmonic coloring along the way. These elements are patiently recombined and recombed, exploring a range of colors increasingly rich yet diffuse, until finally reaching a definitive expression before dissolving back into its elements. The process to me is evocative of a clear sky at dusk, where the unhurried setting sun creates a collection of colors that gradually combine and recombine, becoming brilliant in a final moment before dissipating.

Susquehanna Sunset was written for the Susquehanna Symphony, a community orchestra in Bel Air, Maryland.