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Secret of the Seven Stars (score)
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String orchestra - Level 3
SKU: FV.FUE-2588
Composed by Hope Lee. Orchestral music. Contemporary. Full score. Duration 19'00. Furore Verlag #FUE 2588. Published by Furore Verlag (FV.FUE-2588).ISBN 979-0-50012-497-9.
The other standout piece on this program, for me, was Hope Lee's Secret of the Seven Stars, a new commissioned work for small string orchestra, accordion (Joseph Macerollo) and solo percussion
(Ryan Scott). This ambitious work had a persistently high centre of gravity - no surprise, perhaps, given the title. It sifted its opening tutti chords till only the highest notes remained, testing them as a
position of repose and also of sustained tension. It was as if Lee were measuring the melodic value of the bright upper tones we hear but don't perceive in every instrumental note, while giving this analytic
process an emotional urgency. Lee's distinctive scoring was beautifully transparent, even when thick with independent parts. This clarity, with the silvery upper tones that dominated the piece, gave the
music a magical glow from start to finish. The final sound was a gleaming accord with percussion that took a long time to fade away completely. I would have been game to hear the piece again immediately,
especially with the fine attention paid by conductor Robert Aitken and the 15 members of his ensemble. Robert Everett-Green / The Globe and Mail, 2011
World premiere - 25 September 2011, New Music Concerts, conductor: Robert Aitken. Joseph Macerollo, accordion, Ryan Scott, percussion.
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Stanley F.
April 07, 2013
Opus One Review
Ms. Lee notes that her composition (just under 20 minutes) is inspired by the Revelation to John and various Chinese artistic traditions. At the start we hear a clear triangle ringing. Pizzicato plucked and screaming swirling arco strings increase the tempo and density of the soundspace. Joseph Macerollos accordion chords punctuate it, Ryan Scotts percussion burbles through it. Novel sonic shapes appear: curved lines, jerky lines, muddles, and wide swaths of sound that devolve downwards skirting the zone of melody. These musical shapes are the syntax of a cultural narrative. There is also a perceptible structure to this spacey compositionits squeaks, percussive clicks, rush of strings, explosions of bells, fade into silence and arise again in a succession of modules until Ms. Lee has completed her representation of the human tensions that join heaven and earth in our present cycle of time.
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