Austin Symphonic Band Performing Safely Rest
Austin Symphonic Band ( https://austinsymphonicband.org/ ). July 25, 2024. ASB performing Safely Rest by Nicole Piunno. [NOTE: Click 'more' to read the program notes.] Assistant Music Director Bill Haehnel conducting. "Community in Concert" presented at the 2024 Texas Bandmasters Association Convention/Clinic, Lila Cockrell Theatre, San Antonio, TX.
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Video and Sound Production: Eddie Jennings
From the program notes written by David Cross:
Safely Rest (2020)
Nicole Piunno (b. 1985)
Program note from the composer:
Safely Rest combines the melodies of Amazing Grace and Taps. These two melodies are woven together so they can be perceived as a single unit.
“‘Tis grace that brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home” — from Amazing Grace
“All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh” — from Taps
Nicole Piunno views music as a vehicle for seeing and experiencing the realities of life. Her music often reflects the paradoxes in life and how these seeming opposites are connected as they weave together. Her harmonic language and use of counterpoint mirrors the complexity of our world by acknowledging light and dark, past and present, beauty and brokenness, confinement and freedom, chaos and order, spiritual and physical, life and death.
Listen for:
• Gradual and instrumentally colorful shifts from section to section and individual instrument to full ensemble
• Consonance and lingering dissonance as both melodies intertwine
