…and Grackles Gone

for orchestra | 2015

duration | 10’

Premiered by the Manhattan School of Music Sinfonia in Borden Hall (New York, NY);
George Manahan, conductor

Subsequent performance by the Ostrava New Orchestra at the Ostrava Days Festival (Ostrava, CZ);
Bruno Ferrandis, conductor

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“The streak and skritter of evening gone

and grackles gone and sorrows of the sun,

The sorrows of sun, too, gone…”

- Wallace Stevens, “Autumn Refrain”