ELEGY: SUMMER SHADOWS

for viola / cello & piano

  • Instrumentation: viola / cello, piano

    • arrangements exist for viola and cello

  • Completed: 2015

  • Duration: ca. 4 minutes

  • Premiere performance: Daniel Posner, viola; Stephen Cabell, piano; Ann Goodman Recital Hall, New York, NY; March 8, 2015

 

Program Note

Elegy: Summer Shadows reflects on the quiet passage of time. Inspired by the fading light of a summer sunset, the piece lingers in the moment when shadows lengthen and the world begins to still. Rather than depict a scene literally, the music draws from that atmosphere: warmth giving way to darkness, motion giving way to suspension, beauty inseparable from change.

– SC