<\/a>\nJames Gaffigan rehearsing the BUTI Orchestra in the Shed at Tanglewood, July 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It Remains to be Seen<\/em> was written for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s 40th Anniversary Gala in July 2006. The piece begins with a chord identical to the one at the end of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite and proceeds into a series of charged nocturnal episodes. I wanted to treat the feeling of having just heard music, and being expected to make one’s own “\u201c referencing the experience of leaving a BSO concert at the shed, walking back to BUTI on a curvy back road, arguing about music in pairs and threes, and at the sign of bright headlights from behind, reorganizing in single file as a car filled with happy concert-goers speeds by. The piece is a nine-minute navigation of an excited, occasionally illuminated, dark road filled with arguing, cars, fragments of remembered music, and a constant, propulsive pulse. – Nico Muhly<\/p>\n
Program Notes<\/strong>
\nCommissioned as a concert opener to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute<\/a>, It Remains to Be Seen<\/em> was an especially significant project for the composer”\u201da Tanglewood alumnus to whom the Institute represents the site of a personal, as well as musical, coming of age.<\/p>\n
The piece is loosely programmatic: we hear the counterpoint of young concertgoers arguing, in excited modes, about the music they’ve just heard; we even hear them fall, periodically, into single file, allowing a car to pass them on the narrow country road. And so Muhly inverts the conventional arc of a concert-opening piece, beginning with a cymbal crash and orchestral tutti, and ending diminuendo, as the hush of evening takes over at last. “\u201c Program notes \u00c2\u00a9 2007 Daniel Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n