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BREATHLESS

FOR ORCHESTRA (2001)

(one-movement work)

...antiphonal play of the “barking” motif; polytonal triad stacks at the climax; the sound mass cord at the very end, which is really a verticalization of the dominant barking motif’s major second interval; “in breathless I explore in greater depth the flowers motif first seen in the “flowers and stones” fragment from 1988. I will return to this pattern again in Pelican song (2006), and once again to a lesser degree in star sonata (2024)

BREATHLESS

Duration: 12 minutes

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