Ad Parnassum

Description

Flute, Alto Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Piano, Violin, Cello — Written for the 30th anniversary of Boston Musica Viva (1998), Ad Parnassum is a single-movement construct of murky, mysterious tone. Stucky slowly builds his material in tension, layering motifs and falling back, building and falling back, until finally reaching a hammering crescendo, then quietly fading back into the ether. Steven Stucky conducts Ensemble X (a contemporary music group he co-founded in 1997) in Ad Parnassum, as it appears on the Albany album In Shadow, In Light (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IykN1_MmPE). For advanced performers.