Symphony No. 1 'Hysteria'
Orchestra
“...lively and identifiably American...”
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.
Instrumentation
3 flutes (piccolo), 3 oboes,
3 clarinets (bass clarinet), 3 bassoon (contrabassoon),
4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba,
timpani, 3 percussion, strings
Duration
20 minutes