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Composed in 1989 on a commission grant from the Barlow Endowment for Musc Composition (Provo, UT), The Big Night  anticipates the anxious and restless dreams of a young violinist the night before he or she is scheduled to perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.  The dreams are filled with anxiety, stress, mystery and hallucinations because it is the young soloist's first public performance (of this or any other concerto) with a major symphony orchestra.

The work progresses through three distinct sections of the dream, each conjuring up various reactions to the anxious subconscious including schizophrenia, moments of calming prayer and, finally, a bizarre nightmare of the upcoming performance itself.  In this section tiny fragments of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto are filtered through various 'soloists' from within the orchestra and culminate in a brief, frantic fantasy in which miniature fragments of assorted Tchaikovsky scores are blended, distorted, layered and 'misquoted.'  The work comes to a close on a gentle, relaxed and intimate 'coda,' suggesting that "everything is (probably...) going to be O.K."...  --Michael Schelle

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