THE EMERGENCE OF TIME - Symphony Orchestra (Sosnowski)

[DPDAN]

David David David,
I have to agree with Larry on this one,,,
I don't understand it, but it's cool nonetheless

Dan

[oldbob]

David, a wonderful piece of music! You know how to treat complex harmonies and melodic lines and still be human and communicative, and with a lightness that is very rare... I think Larry and Dan's posts say that, emotionally you like it even if you don't understand why. I need more listenings though to fully appreciate the many subtleties in it. This goes straight into my Sosnowsky folder,

Bravissimo!

Roberto

[jesshmusic]

What an interesting piece! A peek into how you came up with some of those harmonies would be very intriguing to me. I was thouroughly entertained by your work. It is always nice to hear more composers that explore harmony, understand tension, release, and shape as it applies to music.

Keep it up, bro.

[ChrisHurn]

Wow David, this is really, really interesting. What a great piece of work. So many nice colours and great orchestration. Love the runs etc. that the piano is doing, really nice!

Really good work as usual...a very interesting listen!



-Chris

[Josh]

Cosmically speaking, time is illusive, yet everything has a rhythm unto itself. It is through these rhythms that we attempt to delineate our transitory human existence. Do we exist in time, or does time exist within us? As this piece conveys, time - or the emergence thereof - is a personal experience.

Really wonderful piece, David. I'm glad I decided to pop in the forum today - haven't done so in a bit.

[etLux]

David,
Just listened to this for the third time and all I have to say is "Wow"! Lots of angst - lots of hard work - must have been fun too! Excellent balance between the instruments! It flows and builds as it progresses.
I usually don't care much for twelve-tone or "modern" - but this piece held me "right there" - by the short ones.

Thanks, this made my day,

Stephen

Three times? You listened to this THREE times? And
you still have enamel on your teeth... rofl? Thank you
so much for your endurance, Stephen! And for your
kind comments, my friend.

Modern, it is; but I should note, Stephen, that, under
the hood, it's quite tonal, by the way. Others, too, have
a sense of serialism, though, when listening to some of
my pieces -- perhaps because of the layering and over-
lapping of the materials, structurally.

Thanks again for listening, Stephen!

All my best,


David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
.

[etLux]

Well, David! This is quite a piece of music. Since it's about emergence of time, I guess one could say it's a "Timeless" piece of art!

Seriously though, I've listened to it all morning and I don't hear it as a 12-tone piece at all. There maybe some elements of atonality in it but, I definitely hear impressionism at work here! I really like the piece. And while I'm on the subject of praising this piece, I really liked the use of the percussion to accent the material and punctuate the phrases.

As some TV shows final line in the credits went: "That's some hat, Harry!" Well to paraphrase: "That's some Music, David!" Congratulations on another fine and well thought out work.

Wikipedia tells me "That's some bad hat, Harry" is the tagline of
Bryan Singer's production company, originally a line from the movie
Jaws. Hmmm... one wonders if this might be significant...?
There are no coincidences in the cosmos.

Richard, thanks for spending so much time with the piece, and for
the kind comments. And you're correct: althought the "harmonies"
(for lack of a better word) are at times terse, at times dense, there
are no serial elements in the organization of the piece. You're on
the mark that Impressionism creeps in; and on the overall, I'd have
to say my sentiments are unabashedly neo-Romantic.

I appreciate your comments on the use of percussion. In a sense,
like most everything else in the piece, it's almost thematic, the
way it's used.

My best,

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
.

[etLux]

I concur with RichR, nice piece with a nice flow. I hear a bit of a Debussian influence. I particularly love the way you create a musical 'veil' a musical illusion of suspended time. Beautifully done. Can't wait to see the score.

Thanks for the good word, William. Keeping flow in a piece
like this without tiring the ear with an uninterrupted chain of
events is something I give a lot of thought to, and I appreciate
your comment on it.

And thank you for putting into one word, veil, something I was
having difficulty trying to phrase into language, myself. As with
Debussy, there were places in this piece where I did not want
to simply state the obvious; but view it by inference at some
distance... look at the effects, rather than the cause.

The score should be along in the next day or two, William; and
I will post an update note when it's ready.

My best,

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
.

[fastlane]

I listened to it again this morning and I still can't can't wrestle it down and ask "what are you all about". So aside from the structural analysis of it I'll just have to let it go and say thanks for the enjoyable challenge to the ear and mind.

Phil

[efiebke]

David -

First I want to say that I really enjoyed this piece. This composition musically represents some of my feelings of wonderment and apprehension with the whole concept of "time". For me, "time" becomes shorter as each year passes, as parents get older, as I get older. When I was young, one year seemed like an eternity. Now, in my late 40's, one year seems like one week. I am painfully aware that time is limited. Who were once young parents (my parents) are now much older. Each precious moment spent with them never seems like enough as I watch them age and share their life's struggles as they live out their "final years".

"Time" can be exceedingly important. For instance, if I am emergently caring for a person who is experiencing a heart attack, every minute counts. In the nursing field there is a saying, "Time is Tissue". The faster the healthcare team can respond to a cardiac crisis (or to any health crisis), the better the outcome; the faster we can unclog those arteries, the more tissue that will be saved. Yet, during those crazy moments - during those crazy, anxious moments - those minutes or even seconds that take the life-sparing medical intervention to respond SEEM LIKE AN ETERNITY!

And your composition pretty much musically captured all of this for me.

Now I realized that this might not be your intent. Please forgive me if I am off the mark. But your composition, "The Emergence of Time" can easily tell my story of how I view and experience "time" at different moments in life.

I deeply admire and respect your composition and orchestrational skills, David. Thank you for sharing your piece.

Peace!

Ted