Butterflies and Dragons
Written for Nonsemble 6 & the Melos Music 2nd Annual Concert
Instrumentation Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Two Percussionists
Duration 6'
Awards 2012 BMI Composer Award
Written for Nonsemble 6 & the Melos Music 2nd Annual Concert
Instrumentation Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Two Percussionists
Duration 6'
Awards 2012 BMI Composer Award
Written for Nonsemble 6 & the Melos Music 2nd Annual Concert
Instrumentation Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Two Percussionists
Duration 6'
Awards 2012 BMI Composer Award
Program Notes
Butterflies and Dragons was composed for the 2011 Melos Music Festival in San Francisco, CA. Throughout the piece, I was interested in exploring textures and colors that would sparkle and shimmer, while always maintaining a kinetic dialogue between the instruments. Writing about the premiere (in which I played the percussion part), Bay-Area critic Adam Broner remarked:
Composer and percussionist Daniel Temkin chose bursts of energy in his sextet. Here, each instrument is treated almost as a form of percussion: short motifs come off the strings as an explosive force, then refer back to Temkin’s own playing on an array of percussion…[The work] though exuberant, contains a thoughtful core, perhaps the butterfly within the dragon.
— Daniel Temkin
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