Crimson Dream
Composer:
Catalog numbers:
EBM EBM0610027/ HL 45016
Duration (minutes):
12
Detailed Instrumentation:
3(Pi)3(EH)3(BsCl)3(Cbn) 4331 Timp 3Pc Hp Str
Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Premiere: January 15, 1986, Edmonton, Alberta; Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Glenn Mossop, conductor. The composer describes Crimson Dream as: “a musical depiction of a romantic dream, one in which events and feelings are constantly and suddenly changing.” The emotional contrasts of good-evil, sad-happy, and ugly-beautiful are evoked by a broad range of musical styles which are juxtaposed and overlapped, resulting in a musical collage.