Symphony No. 1 'Hysteria'

Orchestra

...lively and identifiably American...
— Hartford Courant
I. Fight or Flight
Richard Maltz
II. Desensitization
Richard Maltz
III. Struggle for Control
Richard Maltz
 


 

With its shifting colors in delicate clouds of sound, dreamlike melodic snippets, jazzy landscapes, and mechanistic sounds, Hysteria is a programmatic, and slightly cinematic piece that depicts the cathartic process of conquering anxiety.

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Instrumentation

3 fl/pic, 3 ob, 3 cl/bs cl, 3 bn/cntr bn
4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba
tmp + 3 prc
strings

Duration

20 minutes