Details
Written 1988
Scoring: Suitable for Youth Orchestras
Symphony Orchestra. picc.1.2.1.bcl.1.cbn/Timp/5Perc/Strings
Duration 18′
Commission: Kent Youth Orchestra
Dedication: ‘To Gerald and Elizabeth Kingsley’
Publisher: Josef Weinberger
About this work:
Paul Patterson learned to sail in his early teens, and it can be suggested that his music’s familiar characteristic of multilayered counterpoint reflects the sea’s currents, tides, waves, wavelets and spray. Indeed, the form and orchestration of White Shadows on the Dark Horizon, written for the Kent County Youth Orchestra, overtly exploits that relationship – a coruscating orchestral seascape.
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