Archive for August, 2009

“He saw his mills rising in the darkness, as a black silhouette against a breathing glow.  The glow was the color of burning gold, and ‘Rearden Steel’ stood written across the sky in the cool, white fire of crystal.  He looked at the long silhouette, the curves of blast furnaces standing like triumphal arches, the [...]

That was fast!

Posted: December 21, 2009 in Current Projects, News

Finished up the piece already! Here’s a score excerpt.  The ending sort of synthesizes the two sides of what I talk about below – check out the last bit with even quarter notes in the winds against the piano’s “rational” rhythmic material from the beginning.  The winds also add a few “wrong” notes to the piano’s [...]

Been a while since my last update! Had a busy but very rewarding first quarter at UChicago and took a little break from writing, but I’m finally back into it. Last year I wrote The Immovable Movers, a short piece for chamber ensemble that takes its title from a chapter of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. [...]