An Image (Three Hours Wide)
by Kory Reeder
I have struggled to come to terms with several things while writing this piece, and I think the best way to summarize them might be to present them as a series of fragments. I have always been a believer in abstraction, and think music is the most abstract artform: I have done my best to provide a snapshot or at least point you in the right direction. Thoughts: nowhere better than this place. The difference between timeless and stationary; an astonishingly present tense. I could never fit in an entire mountain range into a photo (my lens only fits 3 arch hours). Schoenberg said of Webern’s Six Bagatelles: “Every glance can be expanded into a poem, every sigh into a novel” How does one condense a novel into a sigh; the piece to me feels like a single statement (although perhaps there are a few subordinate clauses). But how could I tell you the whole thing? Only we lucky few who have been there know; how could I ever tell you what it was like? Still, let us not forget that what is sentimental might not enlighten us on all that is still to be learned – and we have much to learn.
Available as a 9x12 set of score and parts
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