Informationen zu "Elegy Flywheel"
Komponist/Autor: Melinda Wagner
Verlag: Theodore Presser
Verlagsnummer: 114-42544
Beschreibung
Melinda Wagner’s vivid and poignant sextet ELEGY FLYWHEEL was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of Project 19, a series of works by women composers commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Scored for clarinet (doubling ocarina and harmonica), violin, cello, double bass, percussion, and piano, the work unfolds in two contrasting sections. The elegiac opening was inspired in part by Wagner’s grief over the death of her friend and Juilliard colleague Christopher Rouse, who had a long association with the Philharmonic. A frantic but playful second section follows, darting between motives and textures in a musical evocation of the rotation and accumulation of energy suggested by the title.
