{"id":274,"date":"2012-07-05T18:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T18:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=274"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T23:23:14","slug":"the-burning-music","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/works\/the-burning-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burning Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; align_horizontal=&#8221;align_center&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;80751&#8243; media_lightbox=&#8221;yes&#8221; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;80750&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1565479512421{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra (Donald Crockett, conductor)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]While composing The Burning Music, I had in front of me Carl Sandburg\u2019s short poem, \u201cFire Pages:\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I will read ashes for you, if you ask me.<br \/>\nI will look in the fire and tell you from the gray lashes<br \/>\nAnd out of the red and black tongues and stripes,<br \/>\nI will tell how fire comes<br \/>\nAnd how fire runs far as the sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the poem, I found myself writing a piece almost completely dominated by quick, insistent, repeated notes. After their initial statement by the trombones at the outset, the repeated notes slowly unravel themselves through a variety of textures: from an off-center pyrrhic dance near the beginning to and all-out conflagration towards the end. The only substantial section of the piece lacking these repeated notes is a short chorale. These slowly-changing chords bisect the piece and serve as a moment of repose before the sparks begin flying again, lighting a blaze that eventually fades off into the distance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Osborne&#8217;s &#8220;The Burning Music: prelude for orchestra,&#8221; inspired by its title and Carl Sandburg&#8217;s poem &#8220;Fire Pages,&#8221; flickered convincingly, its rattling repeated notes taking syncopated turns and chasing courses (as if following a fuse) through the orchestra. The drums kicked aggressively; bells tolled ritually: an athletic seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>-Orange County Register, 5\/27\/05<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>orchestra<br \/>\n(2003) 7&#8242;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1725,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"portfolio_category":[110],"class_list":["post-274","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-large-ensemble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80757,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/274\/revisions\/80757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}