Elegy, September 11
Instrumentation: String Orchestra
Year Composed: 2001
Duration: 7 minutes
Pages in score: 11
Cost: Rental: $40.00; Purchase: $75.00
Play Elegy, September 11, as performed live by the St. Cloud State Philharmonic Orchestra, Pablo Mahave-Veglia, conductor.
Representative Performances:
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James E. Taylor High School Orchestra, Clint Capshaw, director (Katy, TX and Carnegie Hall, NYC, 2014) Dulles High School Orchestra, Michael Isadore, conductor (2007) Camerata de Coahuila, Eugene Dowdy, conductor (Torre, Mexico, 2006) Riverview High School (Riverview, FL, 2004) St. Cloud State Philharmonic Orchestra, Pablo Mahave-Veglia, conductor (2002) University of Texas at San Antonio Orchestra, Eugene Dowdy, conductor (2001) |
Program Notes:
After the events of September 11, I was unable to continue working on the piece that I was writing; suddenly, like so many things for so many people, it was incongruent to where my mind and heart were at. In many ways, writing this elegy was a selfish act, an act of personal catharsis. (And I am hardly alone - artists everywhere were doing this.) In the end, the hope is always that the work will help others, too, in some small way.