borne by constellations of green birds
Instrumentation: Alto Saxophone and Piano
Year Composed: 2006
Duration: 15 minutes
Pages (score): 40
Cost: Purchase: $20.00
Movements:
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i. wrestling with gravity ii. no wind at all but the storm iii. flying off into the sun |
Audio samples are from a live performance by sxophonist Robert Young and pianist Rosemarie Suniga (2015).
Play the first movement, i. wrestling with gravity
Play the second movement, ii. no wind at all but the storm
Play the third movement, iii. flying off into the sun
Sample score pages are available for this piece.
Click here for a PDF file of the first six pages of the first movement.
Click here for a PDF file of the first two pages of the second movement.
Click here for a PDF file of the first three pages of the third movemnet.
Representative Performances:
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Todd Oxford, saxophone; Geoffrey Waite, piano, Composers Alliance of San Antonio concert, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (2007)
Chris Beaty, saxophone; Gabriel Sanchez, piano, North American Saxophone Alliance Region IV Conference, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (2007) Patrick Jones, saxophone; Kristine West Denton, piano, North American Saxophone Alliance Region 8 Conference, Penn State University, University Park, PA (2007) Todd Oxford, saxophone; Robert Henry, piano; Society of Composers National Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (2008) Robert Young, saxophone; Rosemarie Suniga, piano; Crane School of Music, Potsdam, NY (2015) |
Program Notes:
The music for borne by constellations of green birds was adapted from some of the movements of another work of mine, Thin Green Traces, for violin and piano. Because I wanted this work to have a different identity, especially in light of the fact I was not using all of the movements from the violin work (and altering the movements I was using), I wished to find new titles for the piece and its movements. I found inspiration in the poem Tree Full of Birds (from the book Voice/Over, 1993, West End Press) by American poet Olga Cabral, whose poems I have often set.