I C A R U S   D R E A M T (2008)

For Full Orchestra

 

Awarded the 2010 Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival and School

Awarded the William Schuman Prize in the 2008 BMI Student Composer Awards

Selected for the American Composers Orchestra 2009 Underwood New Music Reading Sessions

Awarded honorable mention in the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute

 

Program Note:

The concept for Icarus Dreamt is from the inspiration of Arthur Ganson’s kinetic sculpture, Machine with 23 Scraps of Paper, Henri Matisse’s collage, Icarus, and the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Icarus Dreamt combines allusions to the fluttering scraps of paper in Ganson’s sculpture, lyrical gestures of Matisse’s collage, and the narrative trajectory of the Greek myth.

 

**To see a video of Arthur Ganson’s sculpture, Machine with 23 Scraps of Paper: click here

 

 

Recording:

Recording Excerpt: [excerpts from the beginning (2 minutes), and the end (1 minute)]

 

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Recorded at a New Music Reading by the American Composers Orchestra (at the Underwood New Music Readings at Miller Theater, Columbia University, NYC).

 

Full Recording:

Cornell Symphony Orchestra

Performed by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Chris Younghoon Kim (conductor) on May 2, 2010.

Total duration: 9 minutes

 

 

Past performances:

1. -American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings, José Serebrier, conductor (May 7-8, 2009, Miller Theater at Columbia University, NYC)
   

2. -Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor (May 2, 2010)
   

3. -Aspen Concert Orchestra, Jane Glover, conductor (Scheduled for July 28, 2010)