{"id":50,"date":"2007-05-15T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/it-remains-to-be-seen\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T14:53:38","slug":"it-remains-to-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/it-remains-to-be-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"It Remains to be Seen"},"content":{"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

Muhly imagined It Remains”\u00a6<\/em> as a portrait of the artist as a younger man, tinged with the energy and anticipation of youth. More specifically, his piece is the dramatization of a single Tanglewood memory”\u201dthe nighttime walk back to the dormitories at the end of a symphony concert.<\/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

[audio:01 It Remains to be Seen.mp3]
\nLive Recording
\nJuly 2006, Tanglewood
\nBUTI Orchestra
\nJames Gaffigan, conductor<\/p>\n

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\nJames Gaffigan rehearsing the BUTI Orchestra in the Shed at Tanglewood, July 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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