And here is another update, at long last - an orchestral piece I composed for my dearest @arialukina 's birthday. This took me just under two months to write, which is an achievement, I suppose, given the effort I put into my last complete work. A study in orchestral textures, this piece is held together by an omnipresent motif of three ascending notes which appears in the very first few notes, as well as its continuation in the first horn solo, which is developed in its own way. The march, of course, is a direct transformation of the first theme, a strange sort of recapitulation. There is the strange modulation from F to Eb as the tonic key, and the coda which, starting from the maestoso, I wrote in a mere seven hours…in stark contrast with the rest of the piece. I have been told that this is distinctly Mahlerian in style, but that remains to be seen.
