Unauthorized
GARAGES OF THE VALLEY
for chamber orchestra
commissioned by The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra dedicated to Edo de Waart
2 flutes (2 nd = alto flute & piccolo)
2 oboes (2 nd = English Horn)
2 Bb clarinets (2 nd = Eb clarinet & bass clarinet)
2 bassoons
2 horns in F
2 C trumpets
percussion (2 players) marimba (with low C extension), woodblock, sandpaper blocks, djembe, sus. cymbal, bongo, glockenspiel, triangle, xylophone, hi-hat, bass drum, crotale, snare drum
strings
Much of the Digital Age was dreamed up in the most low-tech of spaces. The garages that dot the landscape of Silicon Valley housed the visionaries behind Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Google. The imagined music of these tech workshops begins hyper-kinetically yet sporadically, filled with false starts. It soon flashes into a quicksilver world of out exotic textures and tunings that is informed by the music of Frenchman Gérard Grisey (whose imaginative orchestrations sound electronic but are completely unplugged). The exhilarating finale reflects the infectious optimism of the great inventers of our time, who conjured new worlds within the bright Valley’s dark garages.
GARAGESOFTHEVALLEY
Flute1.2.
Oboe1.2.
ClarinetinBb1.2.
Bassoon1.2.
HorninF1.2.
TrumpetinC1.2.
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consord.(dropoutabeatearlyompreviousmeasureifnec.) / (sandpaperblocks) / (woodyclicks)
(dropoutabeatearlyompreviousmeasureifnec.)
ifnecessary,slowlyconcealblocksbehindshield tocreatetheeffectofaslowdisappearance
h=66(q=q) Gentle,quiet,strange
pliquid
h=66(q=q) Gentle,quiet,strangeC
1:SulE,7thharmonic (quarter-flat)
2:SulC,7thharmonic (three-quarter-flat)
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Vln.ISolo
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