This is coming straight from Notion for iPad). Imagine if in 10 years’ time all these sparkly new arenas are lying empty because we didn’t support our venues and have no new artists coming through. (Also, excuse the corny instrument sounds lol. But yeah, here's an orchestral piece written by someone with no knowledge of how to structure orchestral music, composed for a high school English final. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. This was the first time I ever attempted to compose anything for full orchestra, and about the first time I actually finished anything of musical significance. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Long story short, I wrote this in high school for an English final project, loosely based on a book of the same title that we read that semester. The second, fast portion of this piece represents a “zoomed-in” aspect of people going about their daily lives in a big city, interacting with each other in brief, superficial manners.
With a birds eye view, it seemed as if I was seeing everything, but I would obviously never know the stories of every individual person’s lives, or really understand anything going on there at the personal level. The beginning slow portion was written while I was sitting in the window seat on a flight from Phoenix to New Orleans, looking down upon the small cities and towns below as if they were anthills. This is a short orchestral piece ultimately about the interconnectedness of peoples’ every day lives in a big city.
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