Breathless
for orchestra
duration: 12 minutes
3*3*22 4330 T+3 Hp Str
"Breathless" expands on themes of my earlier orchestra sketch, "Flowers & Stones".
It is grounded by a minimalist pulse involving a repeated eighth-note pattern and various interlocking ostinati, which are occasionally interrupted by a big waltz, some big triads, and a completely unrelated children's nursery rhyme melody. This piece is a good example of the composer's "quirky sense of the irrelevant".