COMPOSER

Of Rain and Air 
for chamber orchestra (2021, revised 2023)

Instrumentation:
1.2.1.1 – 2.1.0.0 - perc(vibraphone) - pno. hrp - str (5.4.4.3.2.)

Instrumentation of revised version: 
1.2.1.1 - 2.1.0.0 - pno. - str (5.4.4.3.2.)

Duration: 9’00’’

Of Rain and Air was Commissioned by the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra and was premiered by David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony on March 13, 2021. The revised version was premiered by the Westside Chamber Players on February 16, 2023.

Winner of the 2023 Westside Chamber Players Call for Scores​

Program Notes:

Back in 2020, after I finished my first commission from the Albany Symphony, they sent me a wonderful book of collected poems. One of the poems included in this book, Of Rain and Air by Wayne Dodd, immediately resonated with me with its beautiful, evocative imagery and its striking relevance to both the sounds I was exploring in my new piece for Albany Symphony and what I was experiencing at the time. My piece is not a musical setting of the poem, but I feel it shares much of the same feeling as that of the text, as if they were part of the same world.

Excerpt from performance by Julius Akira Mauldin and The Westside Chamber Players in the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York, NY.

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Full performance by Julius Akira Mauldin and The Westside Chamber Players in the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York, NY.

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