Gala Flagello
Droughts and Downpours (string orchestra)
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation: String orchestra
Droughts and Downpours, Gala Flagello (2024, arr. 2025)
for string orchestra
Droughts and Downpours (2024, arr. 2025) was commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center and explores the concepts of scarcity and abundance through the sonic depiction of rainfall (or lack thereof). The ensemble evokes doubt, longing, hope, and joy through sound worlds of aridity, mist, drizzle, and deluge; harmonics and pizzicato braid with ostinati and percussive effects in search of "enough." As climate change has made droughts more frequent, longer, and more severe, how can we cherish and care for the world around us?
Droughts and Downpours was originally commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center with the generous support of the Merwin Geffen M.D. and Norman Solomon M.D. New Commission Fund. The version for string orchestra was co-commissioned by Elias Miller and the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, ROCO Chamber Orchestra, and Ho-Yin Kwok and Ithaca College.
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About the Work
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation: String orchestra
Commissioned by: Droughts and Downpours (2024, arr. 2025) was commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center and explores the concepts of scarcity and abundance through the sonic depiction of rainfall (or lack thereof). The ensemble evokes doubt, longing, hope, and joy through sound worlds of aridity, mist, drizzle, and deluge; harmonics and pizzicato braid with ostinati and percussive effects in search of "enough." As climate change has made droughts more frequent, longer, and more severe, how can we cherish and care for the world around us?
Droughts and Downpours was originally commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center with the generous support of the Merwin Geffen M.D. and Norman Solomon M.D. New Commission Fund. The version for string orchestra was co-commissioned by Elias Miller and the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, ROCO Chamber Orchestra, and Ho-Yin Kwok and Ithaca College.
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