Today I will be getting music for the Claremont Concert Orchestra's October concert. We already have Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and have rehearsed it twice already.
This new piece has been commissioned for the CCO and is called In the Form of a Shell, composed by Pablo Santiago Chin, a Costa Rican composer who lives in Chicago. It will feature a flute soloist.
Right now I am listening to it, and I'll have to say that it is unlike anything I've ever played. Not unlike anything I've ever heard, but I have never played anything quite like it. It sounds quite improvisatory - without a steady beat, without a tonal center, with many different kinds of sounds (harmonics, harmonic glissandi, tone clusters, etc).
I know that listening to the work every day will certainly help me to get to know the piece. I certainly wonder what our audiences will think of it....
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