Symphonies, Tone Poems and Concertos
AISHIHIK
3-2-2-3,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Pno, Str. 14'
Peter Ware
LATAKIA 1-1-1-1, 2-1-0-0,
Timp., Perc. (1), Hp, Str. 11'
Peter
Ware
SYMPHONY NO. 1
Ancient Evenings 3-2-2-2,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (2), Str. 40' Peter Ware
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"The music wins you over with its marvellous stillness." -The Toronto Star
A single-movement
concerto for piano and orchestra reflects the character of a glacier lake in
the Yukon. While the orchestration features the lower instruments, the
piano is often frozen in the upper registers creating an icy coldness and
sense of starkness and beauty. Orchestra Score 49 p. AE144
THE FIRE FROM WITHIN
3-3-2-2,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Str. 13' Peter Ware
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THE FIRE FROM WITHIN: "Plaudits are due Conta for his choice of the evening’s opening work, The Fire From Within by Peter Ware. This was an accessible and serious contemporary piece, based on an Indian Legend, that spoke in its slow and sonorous language of a mysterious and profound psychic experience" -The
Leader-Post
Drawing from a Toltec legend similar to the Egyptian myth of the phoenix, a sorcerer may
avoid death by lighting up his bands of awareness and becoming consumed by a fire from
within. This fire then liberates him from death. Opening with a Largo
misterioso introduction featuring a trumpet solo, it progresses to an Allegro
appassionata where the interplay of instruments develops into a jazz-like theme
when the xylophone enters. Thematic and motivic statements are continually explored
and transformed throughout the orchestra. A dramatic Andante leads to the
closing Larghetto
con fuoco. Orchestra Score 36 p. AE667
KUSAWA 3-3-3-2,
4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc. (3), Hp, Str. 12' Peter Ware
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This tone poem of majesty and depth is evocative of a beautiful glacier lake in the Yukon
located south of the Alaska highway between Whitehorse and HainesJunction .
It
reflects the sparkling clarity and majestic quality of the lake in the constantly shifting
orchestration, blending of timbres and colours, and subtle melodic
transformations. As instruments layer in counterpoint, the quartal and
chromatic harmonies emerge building into a polytonal palette.
Orchestra Score 23 p. AE0321
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Written for the town of Latakia in Syria on the shores of the Mediterranean, this
single-movement work begins with a flute solo accompanied by tremolo strings and
harp. Trumpets and horns mark the Andante con mosso, where cellos emerge with
a playful theme that is developed by strings and winds in a Vivace giocoso
section. A viola solo interrupts the motion with a transformation of melodic
material from the Andante now in a mysterious character. The Vivace
returns more sombre and develops into a long singing theme in the winds. A queer
dance in triple meter is heard in the oboe; and as the xylophone enters, the emotional
ardour accelerates into a Prestissimo leggiero. The work concludes with a
meditative Largo. 44 p. AE87X $44.98
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"The orchestra reveled in the evocative and passionate passages of the musical epic." -The London Free Press.
Like Norman Mailer's novel, this piece opens in a burial crypt. Sounds effuse from
stone, slowly and magically, as if recapturing a distant past within that brief, equivocal
moment flickering between life and death. In the first movement, the soul attends
its own funeral as transformations of Taps are played by solo trumpet and horn,
delineating the three main sections. The faster sections utilize contrapuntal
techniques including mixed canons, imitation and a fugato with solos dispersed throughout
the orchestra. The second and third movements of the score use abstract linear
writing, rich harmonies and heroic themes to create the drama and excitement of the
hero's journey through time past. Orchestra Score 155 p. AE572 $155.98
TSANKAWI 2-2-2-2, 4-2-3-1, Timp., Perc.
(3), Str. 7' Peter Ware
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TSANKAWI: "From the arresting opening of the bass drums thundering at either side of the stage, the music weaved a haunting spell." -The Leader Post.
"TSANKAWI, Ware’s sweeping tonal picture of an Indian ruin atop a mesa in the Rocky Mountains." -Richmond News Leader.
Inspired by an Indian ruin situated at the top of a mesa located in the Rocky Mountains, Tsankawi
is often described as a painting in sound. It depicts this ancient landscape
progressing slowly and deliberately, with an inner strength and refined sense of
urgency. The drama is set in the beginning as two powerful bass drum rolls sound
from opposite sides of the stage. Like a stirring of life, the upper strings and
winds emerge from the low percussion and brass, creating an atmosphere of orental serenity
with an aura of expansive time and space. Orchestra score11 p. AE403
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