Written in 2008, Floating Amidst... is a chamber work based on a set of paintings by visual artist Leticia Luevanos. In these watercolor paintings, Leticia uses deep, vivid, colors and flowing, curving, lines to abstractly represent jellyfish floating in the ocean. The music aims to convey the deep colors and imagery of her work, and each movement represents a different painting. Throughout the first movement the dipping glissandos of the clarinets mimic the first painting's gentle curves, while the dark cello lines portray the ominous black found at the bottom of the painting. Meanwhile, a gently ebbing iso-rhythm in the cello represents cascading waves which come in and out of focus throughout the movement. As the movement ends, ethereal crotales float away somewhere in the distance. In the second movement, sounds of the wind and the waves slowly come into focus until a gentle trumpet melody enters. The lyrical section which follows represents the soft blue colors seen in the jellyfish of the second painting. As these colors melt into the background of the ocean's landscape, only a foreboding, profound, crimson remains, and the final chorale explores the depth of this crimson which bleeds slowly through the water.

Movement I: A pink glow     Movement II: Soft grey, gentle blue, dark crimson

 
10'00" duration

$39.95 Paper score and parts, $27.95 Digital

Catalogue No. 07006