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Blue Cathedral is the third studio album by Comets on Fire.It was released in 2004 on the Sub Pop label.. In an interview, Comets on Fire echoplex and electronics player Noel von Harmonson stated that the album cover art for Blue Cathedral was a photograph of an elephant that suffered from a disease causing a lack of pigment in some areas of its skin. [11]
blue cathedral (1999) Celebration Fanfare (2003) City Scape (2002) Concerto 4-3 (2007) Concerto for Orchestra (2002) Dance Card (2015) Dooryard Bloom (2004) Duo Duel (Double Percussion Concerto) (2020) Fanfare Ritmico (1999) Harp Concerto (2018) Light (2006) The Light That We Can Hear (Flute Concerto) (2022) Loco (2004) Low Brass Concerto (2017 ...
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962 [1]) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards , including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in ...
The Singing Rooms is a concerto for solo violin, choir, and orchestra by the American composer Jennifer Higdon.The work was jointly commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Higdon described the inspiration of the piece in the score program notes, writing: Light Refracted is a meditation on the way that light is reflected in people: there is the inward view of that light, which is thoughtful and contemplating, with a wide range of emotion; and outward... the light that we shine out towards the world (in this case, full of energy).
The world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's zippy, enchanting Fanfare Ritmico started the concert off with a bang. Written for the orchestra as one of a series of commissioned fanfares, Higdon's score is a brisk, sharp-edged concoction, full of rhythmic pizzazz and blunt orchestral writing (aside from one splendidly played solo for the concertmaster).
He added, "Higdon uses the full resources of the orchestra to convey the splendour of mountains, motion of bodies of water and wonders of other natural phenomena." [ 2 ] Carlos María Solare of The Strad similarly wrote, "The kaleidoscopic variety of All Things Majestic , a four-movement suite inspired by the breathtaking landscapes of the ...
Reviewing the world premiere, Allan Kozinn of The New York Times called Dooryard Bloom "a substantial new score" and praised Higdon's vocal and orchestra writing. Kozinn added, "Most crucially, though, her setting matches and magnifies the charged emotional arc of Whitman's text, with its inexorable passion, its submerged anger and the peaceful acceptance of its final lines."