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Music for a Summer Evening is a set of short movements focusing on summer evening themes.
The intent is to create musical portraits of moods and creatures associated with this nocturnal setting.
Touch of Evening is a gentle, melodic expression. This is the start of evening – a time for calm and
relaxation. Then, a Firefly comes to life, darting about in the air. Harmonics, high glissandi and
abundant staccati characterize the musical language.
Summer evenings are definitely the time for Romance. And this particular romantic interpretation
features very gentle tremoli in the piano (marked “tenderly, as a caress”) and a “cantabile” theme first
introduced in the alto flute, and later appearing in the cello. At the end, the piano tremoli fade into
just the “caress” motion of the hands on the keys.
A Little Night Blues vamps through the evening air. This is lazy, blues music, with much camaraderie
between the players.
The evening ends with Shooting Stars. These are portrayed by high glissandi in the strings. The flute
switches to piccolo in order to enter the stratosphere. This is light, bright music, often in the upper
ranges of the instruments. There is rhythmic energy throughout as the stars streak across the sky on a
summer evening.

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