Black Cascades (2014)
2(2=a.fl.)2(2=e.hn.)2(2=b.cl.)3(3=cbsn.) / 4221 / timp.3perc. / hp.pno. / strings
6’
Program Note:
In Black Cascades, I sought to create a tone poem involving the supernatural, ominous nature of water at night. The piece begins as a calm stream very subtly flowing through a forest in the early morning hours. The stream's current gradually picks up until the water hurls down rocky cliffs ferociously and demonically, only to calm down once again.
Performances:
Robert Nordling and the Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, Gorton Community Center, Lake Forest, Illinois, May 21, 2017.