Eternal Return. 2023. 20′.
for Orchestra.
Premiere: Boston Modern Orchestra. Gil Rose, conductor.
October 11, 2023.
Jordan Hall. New England Conservatory. Boston, MA.
“…masterfully pulling interesting colors out of the orchestra.” — Boston Musical Intelligencer
Clifton Ingram, who wrote notes for the premiere concert program, remarked that the historical underpinnings of the ‘eternal return’ are apt to revisit during a moment of rebuilding and reevaluation after the covid pandemic. Ingram also remarked on the works’ ‘pointedly impressionistic gestures’, connected to Debussy’s Jeux being a point of departure, and also noted the finale’s reference to William Kentridge’s Shadow Procession: another allusion and historical reference to the ‘eternal return’. Ingram says of the ending that it, ‘glides with scorrevole fluency but is never lacking in variation.”
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