What Are These Rivers?
For Orchestra
Inspired by passages from Henry David Thoreau’s Journals, including:
“What are these rivers and hills, these hieroglyphics which my eyes behold?”
“The air is an element which our voices shake still further than our oars the water.”
“I saw a distant river by moonlight, making no noise, yet flowing, as by day, still to the sea, like melted silver reflecting the moonlight.”
Instrumentation:
Flute
Oboe
English Horn
Clarinet
Bassoon
Two Horns
Trumpet
Trombone
Timpani
Percussion - 3 Players
Strings
Duration: ca. 8 minutes
