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Seattle Concerto (2000) |
For organ and orchestra (organ 3(picc)2(CorA)3(Basscl)3(Cbn)/44311 timp 6perc 2harp piano strings) - 30'
Allegro risoluto
~ Adagio ~ Allegro con spirito
Commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the Biennial National Convention
Seattle, Washington, July 2000
World Premiere: Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim, organ, and the Seattle Symphony
Orchestra, directed by Gerard Schwarz, 6 July 2000, for the inauguration of
the C.B. Fisk organ, opus 114 Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington, during the
American Guild of Organists' Seattle 2000 National Convention.
The joyful and rhapsodic opening movement, Allegro risoluto, is in plurithematic
sonata form. The Adagio, in song form, develops a long and expressive melody
on the soft reeds of the organ, with a dense choral accompaniment on the strings.
After a lighter middle section, Andante grazioso, the recapitulation varies
the orchestral texture, the theme being played by the strings in octaves, with
contrapuntal staccato ornamentation on the organ mutations. The finale, Allegro
con spirito, is in rondo-sonata form. Its thematic material and generous orchestration
recall the extrovert happiness of the first movement.
Commissioned by American Guild of Organists. First performance: Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim, organ and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra dir. Gerald Schwarz 6thJuly 1999 and Benaroya Hall, Seattle