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"The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed" — Chick Corea
Ron Levy Music
BREATHLESS
for
orchestra
Breathless -
00:00 / 00:00
Commissioned by Alan Remington
for the Orange Coast College Symphony
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First performance: May 5, 2002
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33(+EH)33 4331 perc timp str
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Duration 12'
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Breathless is part of a larger magnum opus which also includes Flowers and Stones (1985), Crushed Flowers (2006) and Pelican Song (2007).
The entirety is bound by a mysterious trance-inducing ostinato, heard here primarily in the marimba.
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The piece begins with a bang — and then it's off and running, a single through-composed movement with assorted changes of pace and texture along the way. The unmitigated forward motion is ultimately resolved in a static "chord", held for as long as the individual players are able within a single breath — until they all are, in the end, "breathless"
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