Program Notes

The beginning of this Fantasia starts withan overtone melody on the first violin. The timber of overtone and pizzicato on the strings with harp creates a remembered Romance that has gone. The violin sets the stage for this tragically romantic ensemble refusing at first to be brought down by its struggle with the unpredictable storms of this universe, finally giving in halfway through the music.  The emotional dive is driven by the double base and cello to the point where even the depths of tragedy must give in, and they do, to the woodwinds that break back through the storms to bring the melody back to its origins, now, with every instrument playing each note of the melody.  Love, what’s left, dies away in the crescendo of the glockenspiel.