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Summer Solstice (2007) for piano was written for and is dedicated to pianist and composer Jeffrey Jacob.Though there were a number of interconnected inspirations behind the works conception, one of theseintentions is as a tribute to American composer Vincent Persichetti (19151987). Though there are nospecific quotations from Persichettis music, some of the textural and developmental ideas (particularly inthe fast, middle section) owe themselves to his work.The work opens in a free, declamatory manner announcing its basic pitch material. Spasmodic gesturesintercut the resonant declamation. Amidst the bright ringing, a lyric melody tries to assert itself again andagain. A whirling and dry fast section, however, emerges; the material is put through a series of spinningtransformations, building to a ringing and clangorous climax bathed in the white heat of the summer sun.The final section is marked memorial candles distant and near candles set out on a field flicker in thesummer heat and ebbing sunlight while low, distant chimes sound the passing of time. The candles slowlyburn out one by one in the heat of the dry summer air.Recorded by Donna Amato on "Carson Cooman: Piano works" ALTARUS AIR-CD-9015
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