9/11 RELATED MUSIC
This page presents a Pierrot sextet composition that serves as a profound musical response to terrorism. This 9/11 chamber music piece offers an instrumental reflection on 9/11, exploring themes of loss and resilience through a contemporary chamber music ensemble.
ELEGY TO THE FUTURE
for Pierrot ensemble
Duration:
13 minutes
Instrumentation:
piccolo/alto flute; clarinet; violin; cello; percussion; piano
Year Composed:
2001
Written For:
Collage New Music, David Hoose, conductor
Commissioned by:
Collage New Music, with kind support
by Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser
Premiere Performance:
24 February, 2001
Boston, MA, United States
Collage New Music
Linda Toote, flutes
Robert Annis, clarinets
Catherine French, violin;
Joel Moerschel, cello
Christopher Oldfather, piano
Craig McNutt, percussion
David Hoose, conductor
9/11 RELATED CHAMBER MUSIC
Program Notes:
Elegy to the Future for Pierrot ensemble was written in Tel Aviv, Israel, during a period of daily bomb attacks, shootings, and growing tension. I asked myself how and when it would end. Then came September 11, 2001, and my previous thoughts gained an even greater dimension. This piece, completed on September 26, 2001, deals with the sorrow, restlessness, and fear for the future caused by such events. Towards the end of the piece, fragments from the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488, can be heard. For me, this fragment represents the understanding that things will never be the same again and that the pure is now shadowed in darkness. "Elegy to the Future" was commissioned by and is dedicated to David Hoose and Collage New Music.
Score of Elegy for the Future for Pierrot ensemble
