Winter Suite: Eight Vignettes (2007)
two trumpets in C (1st tpt. doubling Bb picc.), and piano
14 min.
This piece was composed as a series of eight miniatures, or vignettes, inspired by a cycle of three poems about winter (by Robert Pack). Each vignette bears a subtitle taken from a line of poetry, representing the character of that particular movement—all being reflections on different facets of the winter season (i.e. brightness/exuberance, deadly chill, beauty, storm/chaos, stillness).
- I. Prelude
- II. I watched drowned snow appear to lift up from the lake
- III. Your red cheeks radiant against the wind
- IV. A frame of gilded twilight
- V. Cascading snowflakes settle in the pines
- VI. Homeward into the howling woods
- VII. Only a whiter absence to my mind
- VIII. Merely a mockery of spring
- Winter Suite: Eight Vignettes was premiered by Mark D’Angelo and Daeyong Ra- trumpets, and Miri Lee- piano, at the Canadian Music Centre- BC Creative Hub (Vancouver), 27 February, 2011
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Sheet music is available through the Canadian Music Centre.