Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2/4.2.2.1/Timp/1-perc/Hp./Strings
Duration: 6 minutes
Year: 2012
Audio Excerpt
Program Notes
Toward Light (2012) is a dashing and forward driving tone poem for large orchestra. The piece is in a loose knit three part form, with a two fast sections and a slower and mellower middle. was originally conceived to be large scale “Theme and Variations” for orchestra, but changed its direction once I realized that it would work better as a free form tone poem. As a result, I kept some of the remnants from a previous sketch to work it into the composition that you are about to hear.
Performance History
- Mar 21, 2013, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver BC, Canada
Gordon Gerrard conducting
- Sept 22, 2016, Niagara Symphony Orchestra
Partridge Hall, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Bradley Thachuk conducting
- Feb 1, 2021, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Centennial Hall, Winnipeg MB, Canada
Julian Pelicano conducting (Cancelled)
Score and Parts
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Roydon Tse 