Brumous Fantasies
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Tracy Luna is another friend I first connected with through the tuba studio at TTU, and had since stayed in touch with. He had booked a performance slot at the 2015 Southeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, and commissioned me to write a new work to premiere at the conference.
The word "brumous" is used for describing gray, sunless, and overall depressing winter weather. The winter of 2015 was particularly brutal for me in numerous ways, leading to a prolonged state of depression. This piece became dedicated to the idea of escaping that depression through fantasies. My fantasies and daydreams tend to arise spontaneously, unconnected to previous trains of thought . I tried to recreate this spontaneous (or erratic) nature in the music with abrupt shifts in style and color. A series of three fantasies unfolds from a stark, wintry atmosphere represented by three chords in the upper octaves of the piano. These chords return again at the end of the piece, this time resolved with an additional major chord, coming to rest in some hopefulness.
Commissioned by Tracy Luna.
Publisher: Cimarron Music