difficulty: advanced
Duration: 24 min.
I believe strongly that life is about change. And so it follows that in my music ideas never return as they were, but are always transformed, sometimes in and of themselves, sometimes by the new context they inhabit. In most instances both occur. For example, melody that we heard earlier is changed and appears in a new context.
“Love” has been a word much degraded of late. It has been brandied about carelessly. So in choosing it as part of a title I had to be very careful. In this music, then, let’s think of love rather as a force, an energy. It plays, winks and smiles. It cries out. It is ambiguous. It envelops. It is furious. It is intimate and is also serene. It is massive. And it has great dimension.
-Program Note by the composer