USC Alfred Newman Recital Hall
USC Campus
213.740.6444
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Tuesday Apr 20, 2010 (7:30pm)
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USC Thornton School of Music says: The Thornton's Contemporary Music Ensemble, directed by Donald Crockett, presents an evening of virtuosic new music from the United States and Great Britain, including the US premiere of analemma for 11 musicians by faculty composer Veronika Krausas.
This work was commissioned by ERGO Projects in Canada and premiered at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto in 2006.
An analemma is a visual representation of the equation of time. It is a term from astronomy that describes the figure created by the position of the sun at the same time every day during the earth's yearly rotation. The analemma created by our sun is a lopsided figure 8 or infinity symbol. Its nature is that of slight change over time, ultimately returning to trace the same pattern again.
This work is about the same musical ideas seen from different angles or in differing situations. Just as the sun's analemma results from slightly different positions in the sky, this work presents 3 related musical ideas in differing lengths, situations or combinations.
