A Screaming Comes Across the Sky

[Richard Ryan]

Interesting - would be cool to hear the piece, but it
doesn't look like it's been recorded yet.  Someone
might drop Heuser an e-mail and ask if there are any
plans for such:

http://music.utsa.edu/electron/heuser.htm

--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Music of 3 Americans emerging Saturday
> Columbia Orchestra's 'A New World' to close out
> season
> By Judah E. Adashi
> special to the sun
> Originally published June 1, 2007
> 
> Next season promises to be a good one for
> contemporary
> American music in Baltimore. With Marin Alsop as its
> new music director, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
> will perform nearly a dozen pieces by living
> American
> composers, as well as 20th-century masterworks by
> Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington and
> George Gershwin.
> 
> But local enthusiasts of new and recent American
> works
> need not wait for Alsop's arrival to hear the
> indigenous music of our time. At 7:30 p.m. tomorrow
> at
> Jim Rouse Theatre, music director Jason Love and the
> Columbia Orchestra will close out their season with
> "A
> New World," a program featuring music by three
> Americans and one famous European visitor.
> 
> The evening begins with David Heuser's A Screaming
> Comes Across the Sky, the winning work in the
> orchestra's biannual American Composer Competition.
> Called "all-American music at its most dynamic and
> visceral" by Charles Ward of the Houston Chronicle,
> Heuser's percussion-driven score from 2005 takes its
> title and temperament from the opening line of
> Thomas
> Pynchon's novel, Gravity's Rainbow. Heuser's
> energetic
> overture is immediately contrasted with Barber's
> poignant Adagio for Strings, the composer's
> adaptation
> of the slow movement from his 1936 String
> Quartet....
> 
>
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-ho.orchestra01jun01,0,152108.story?coll=bal-local-howard
> 
> 
>  
>
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