Scored for Solo Piano

Completed in 2004
Duration: 5 minutes

Premiered March, 2004 in Bloomington, Indiana
Pamela Sommer, Piano

Program Note
Silver Horizon is constructed from three musicals ideas: a rapid, shimmering flourish, a slowly rising line, and a simple, three-note punctuating melody.  Originally short and fast, the flourish grows into a blur of sustained sound, and at this point the melody emerges and gradually develops while floating over a landscape of fading sonorities.  For much of the work the pianist is given collections of notes and instructed to rapidly articulate the chord in an irregular and indeterminate fashion. Silver Horizon is characterized by resonance and blend; the pianist is instructed to keep the sustain pedal depressed for the duration of the piece, and sonorities ring freely into one another. Towards the end of the work, the dense chords that drive the melodic section give way to simple triads that fade into the distance...