Joelle Wallach
Glimpses
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 9'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: any brass, any string, bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute, harp, oboe, percussion, piccolo, timpani, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola
Publisher: Carl Fischer
Publisher website: https://www.carlfischer.com/cy1871f-glimpses.html
Score PDF: Glimpses-Complete-Score-Carl-Fischer.pdf
Text PDF: WISPS-SCORE.pdf
Purchase score URL: https://www.carlfischer.com/cy1871f-glimpses.html
Description: Glimpses, composed in 1980 and published by Carl Fischer, consists of eleven fragmentary musical phrases. The focus of the work is its exploration of unusual orchestral colors. As a painter might achieve different and distinctive shades by mixing pigments, then making them lighter or darker, denser or more transparent, so Glimpses groups unexpected combinations of orchestral instruments at different volumes and densities to produce original and often startling orchestral sonorities.