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The Birds Outside My Window

The Birds Outside My Window

$5.00Price

This piece was created after I recieved news from my doctor that changed how I viewed my life. As I stared outside my apartment window, I saw thousands of birds flying around in circles. I noticed that everytime I received bad news from my doctor, the birds would fly chaotically and without order. Every time I received good news, the birds would resume flying in an orderly fashion.

 

The birds are represented by the push-and-pull between tonality and atonality, free-form and structure, and slow and fast tempos. This work won the national DM.connect competition, and was transformed into a choreographed film.

 

World Premiere: October 2020, Lincoln, Nebraska

  • WORLD PREMIERE

    October 2020, in Westbrook Music Hall, Lincoln, NE

  • COMMISSION

    In collaboration between the UNL Composition Studio and the UNL Cello Studio

  • DURATION

    6 minutes

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