This piece draws on California's diverse and beautiful natural landscape with dazzling computer-generated art images by mathematician and artist Frank Farris. The orchestra performs with these fantastical symmetric creations projected overhead in a fusion of music and vibrant animated mathematical imagery. Commissioned by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra
Piano Concerto (2011)
Snow Lion of Peace (2009)
Fate (2007)
Zydeco Madness for string orchestra (2006)
Angels of Light (1991)
Uprising (1988)
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings. (11:00)
based on the piano piece.
Trailing Vortices (1986)
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation
1st Performance: Aspen Music Festival, August, 1987
Gaudeamus Music Festival, Hilversum, Netherlands, VARA Radio Orchestra, Ernest Bour, cond.
Duration: 15:00
scored for sinfonietta: flute, oboe / bassett horn, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass.
The piece is based on amazing photographs of trailing vortices and other flow phenomena in Milton Van Dyke’s An Album of Fluid Mechanics.
Trailing vortices from a rectangular wing (An Album of Fluid Motion, Milton Van Dyke, 1982).
Trailing Vortices are spiraling wind streams formed when air passes over an airfoil. These graceful spirals suggest diverse musical interpretation.