Lucia Dlugoszewski - Fire Fragile Flight

Fire Fragile Flight Orchestra of Our Time Joel Thome This gorgeous piece is totally unique in sound and conception. Added to the normal chamber orchestra is an unusual percussion section with 4 players on such instruments as slide whistles and hanging bells, one percussionist playing inside the piano on the strings, and so on. This ensemble re-creates in sound the image of a physical phenomena: the falling leaves of early March in the Great Lakes country. This is accomplished by notating 65 musical events or phrases which are freely chosen by the performers - "leap-points" which trigger whirling "startle-juxtapositions" of varying speed, like the sunlight reflected on turning and falling leaves will sometimes appear to have set them on fire. [allmusic.com] Art by Ellsworth Kelly