Rain Worthington
Dark Dreams - for chamber ensemble
Year: 2001
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble
Instruments: any brass, any string, any woodwind, bassoon, cello, clarinet, English horn, horn, piano, viola, violin
MP3 STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/rain-worthington/dark-dreams-chamber-version/s-Ms8oZ
Score PDF: dark_dreams_chamber-perusal_secure-5.pdf
Description: Inspired by a painting by Jared FitzGerald. The germinating idea for the piece relates to its image of an angel in the moonlight, wrestling with a shadowy figure. “Dark Dreams” extends the metaphor to the struggles with “emotional demons” confronted in life. (Concert performance: Jacqueline Leclair, Eng. hrn; Evan Spritzer, cl; Richard Vrotney, bsn; Joseph Kubera, pno; Vita Wallace & Theresa Salomon, vlns; Liuh-Wen Ting, vla; Ariane Lallemand, vc.)