Glancing at Flowers

  • 4:00
  • 2002
  • Chamber Orchestra
Published by Monica Houghton Music Company - Request performance materials.

Instrument List

1111 111 1 strings

Performances

Premiere: Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Andrew Rindfleisch, Music Director, Young and Emerging Composers Reading, Drinko Hall, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, November 14, 2002.

Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, Warren Friesen, Music Director, Weber Hall, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnestoa, July 27, 2005.

Program Note

One morning while working at the piano I happened to glance over at a vase of flowers on the table in the next room, and in that instant the idea for this music came to me. The day had been interrupted. Time seemed to stand still — suspended there, in the color (red) of the flowers.