Texas Music Festival, ; All Rights Reserved, Barry Jekowsky Conductor (Texas Premier).
Notes by Chris Theofanidis:
The first movement is about twelve minutes (I became very interested in the way a first movement defines a symphony, and started looking around at the lengths of the major symphonies that I love, and all of them seemed to have first movements in the twelve to fifteen-minute range). The first movement and last movement both hinge on two contrasting types of energies—in the first movement, the feeling is joyous but occasionally takes turns into a slightly out-of-control version of itself. The last movement is quite dark and monolithic in character, but is occasionally tormented by flashes of light and beauty. I saw these two movements as mirrors of each other. The first is mostly quite fast; the last has a certain breadth and grandeur with some occasional faster music.

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