| Description |
The first movement of "Three New Mexico Landscapes" is entitled "Enchanted Mesa" and is a result of my “ time-machine” experience there, which was no more than feeling in touch with the land and the people who had lived and died there centuries before. "In touch" in a very "present" way. It was my first reference to the ancestors of today's Pueblo people. The other two movements hinted at the tugging forces of adversity and bliss: the second, "Sleeping Snow", was sophisticated "blues" with a touch of panic in the middle, and "Aspen Race" was a child-like celebration of a colorful, stimulating environment.
ASCAP title code: 500961802
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"This work, filled with an interesting mix of harmonies sounding simultaneously archaic and contemporary, beautifully captures the grandeur of three aspects of this state's rich geographical phenomena: mesas, snow and aspens."
--ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL |