Shadow

Description

Flute 1, Flute 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Clarinet in Bb 1, Clarinet in Bb 2, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Horn in F 1, Horn in F 2, Trumpet in C, Trombone, Percussion, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass — Shadow is a chronicle of Stacy's stay at Yaddo (an artist colony in New York) in the summer of 2001. While there she met several visual artists and photographers whose work sparked her imagination. In order to break out. These pictures, when pieced together formed a collage of jagged bits of color and motion that were unified by their basic elements. The actual title is derived from a story. Over a century ago, the Trask family asked their four year old daughter what they should name the place. She replied "Yaddo," because it rhymes with shadow. To the little girl, the word shadow represented death. As death surrounds us in unexpected ways, this experience shaded what Stacy had originally planned to be a light, colorful work into something much darker.