Suite for Horn and Piano

Description

The Suite for Horn and Piano (with optional percussion and interpretive dance) is another sonic foray into African mythology, traditions, and metaphysics. Movement 1, “Arrival” is a clarion call heralding a dignitary into a community. Movement 2, “Homage” is a nostalgic glimpse of a new land, new peoples, filled with promise; it’s conversational, yet a soliloquy. Movement 3, “Forest Dreams” is an energetic recount of adversities traversed in distant lands. In “Oracles,” or Movement 4 a tentative libation to appease ancestral forebears. Movement 5, “Childhood Dreams” is a reminisce of toddler years long past – of simple but delicate times. Finally, the last movement, “Sango Farewell,” deft, boisterous, heroic, deliberately crafted to bring the work to a rousing close.