FOR SUM Instrumental Solo and Ensemble

BEAUTY AND SECRETS

Composition date: 2010

Instrumentation: flt, clt, perc, pno, vln, vlc. 

Length: 16 minutes

Premiere:

Date: February 2011

Venue: Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University

Performers: Psappha

Piece Description: 

Beauty and Secrets is based on music from act 1 of the opera Don’t Breathe a Word. The opera is concerned with s diplomatic scandal in a recently ex-Soviet republic in central Asia in the early years of the 21st century. As one of the characters describes it: a land of beauty - and secrets.

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