pivotal orbits
CW shaking the hand of Tokyo Philharmonic conductor Kazufumi Yamashita following the premiere performance in Tokyo in September 2003
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year: 2002
duration:
13'
performances:
- Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra / Kazufumi
Yamashita, Tokyo, 19.09.2003
-
New
Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth
Young, Wellington, 09.05.2008
programme note: Pivotal
Orbits I was influenced by the sensual imagery of the following passage
in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer:
The earth is not an arid plateau of health and comfort, but a great sprawling female with velvet torso that swells and heaves with ocean billows; she squirms beneath a diadem of sweat and anguish. Naked and sexed she rolls among the clouds in the violet light of the stars. All of herÂ…blazes with furious ardour. She moves amongst the seasons and the years with a grand whoopla that seizes the torso with paroxysmal fury, that shakes the cobwebs out of the sky; she subsides on her pivotal orbits with volcanic tremors.
This work is a portrayal of this tectonic restlessness and movement, existing in a lush sound environment, tied together by three recurring ideas that are in constant developmental flux.