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ID571CF854-70F1-41AB-9626-F815FC45F7B7
TitlecodeR00358
Title NameAn Angry Darkness
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InstrumentationFlute, B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano
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Program NotesAn Angry Darkness was composed in 1990 and revised in 1991 for the Florida State University New Music Ensemble. The title and primary agenda of the work comes from a poem that I wrote. It is my intention to portray a sense of primal anger brought forth by the inability to answer the existential question. I have used The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives as both musical and metaphorical material. It is in "The Question" as presented by the trumpet that I have found much inspiration. My solutions for the "Invisible Answer", however, are no more comforting or revealing than those given by the "Fighting Answerers" found in' the Ives work. In the end there is only anger at the "Silences" and frustration with the question.

It is not enough...
shades of twilight glisten and fade
a Prayer - a Cry
into empty silence...
sounds of an angry darkness

--Carl Harrison
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Year Composed1991
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Date Created2008-10-31 00:00:00.000000
Date Updated2023-06-25 05:41:44
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Premier Performance Memo-Florida State University New Music Ensemble and Chamber Winds. 06 Apr 91. Festival of New Music.
-Florida State University. 1991. "Something Borrowed Something New."
-Florida State University New Music Ensemble. 1990.
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