“Atlas himself is suffering, and can barely hold up the white-hot sky on his shoulders!” — Ovid, tr. Klein
Instrumentation: bassoon
Duration: 4½ minutes
Performance History: premiered 2007 by Darcy Whetten; August 22, 2016 by Jessi Vandagriff
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Written for oboist Jeralee Johnson, Daydreams and Postlude was inspired by Britten’s classic Six Metamorphoses After Ovid as well as by pastoral images such as Franz von Lenbach’s painting “Hirtenknabe.” In four movements, the piece consists of three fantasies — a gnarly tocatta, a rustic dance, and a plaintive chant — and a cantankerous finale. It is, as Dickens would put it, “Woolgathering Killjoyed.”
Instrumentation: oboe
Duration: 10 minutes
Movements: Gordian — Sylvan — Cerulean — Henpecked
Premiere: 3 May 2015 by Jeralee Johnson
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“. . . Light traveling through such an anisotropic medium can exhibit double refraction or birefringence, in which an unpolarized incident light ray splits into two polarized rays with mutually perpendicular planes of vibration.” — Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Instrumentation: cello and piano
Duration: 5 minutes
Premiere: 8 March 2015 by Geoffrey Burleson, piano, and David Russell, cello
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Frazzled hair. Mad, coffee-fueled eyes. White pharmacist coat. A sea of boiling beakers, flashing lights and scattered papers. All for the latest in a long line of -inators.
Instrumentation: flute and alto saxophone
Duration: 2 minutes
Premiere: 5 August 2011 by the Tower Duo
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“… when the boy began to delight in his daring flight, and abandoning his guide, drawn by desire for the heavens, [he] soared higher. His nearness to the devouring sun softened the fragrant wax that held the wings: and the wax melted: he flailed with bare arms, but losing his oar-like wings, could not ride the air. Even as his mouth was crying his father’s name, it vanished into the dark blue sea.” — Ovid, tr. Kline
Instrumentation: clarinet
Duration: 4 minutes
Premiere: 6 July 2012 by the Arianna Tigheli
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