Astral Travels offers a pair of concertos, one for double bass and orchestra and the other for double bass, tenor saxophone, and orchestra, by California-based composer David Arend. The title applies to both works, referring to different senses of the word "astral": Voyager: Three Sheets to the Wind refers to the journeys of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, while Sequoia Sempervirens, the double bass concerto, evokes the spiritual connotations of the term. Arend is a gifted pictorialist: Sequoia Sempervirens depicts not only ...
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Astral Travels offers a pair of concertos, one for double bass and orchestra and the other for double bass, tenor saxophone, and orchestra, by California-based composer David Arend. The title applies to both works, referring to different senses of the word "astral": Voyager: Three Sheets to the Wind refers to the journeys of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, while Sequoia Sempervirens, the double bass concerto, evokes the spiritual connotations of the term. Arend is a gifted pictorialist: Sequoia Sempervirens depicts not only the ambience of Northern California's forests, solemn yet full of life, but also, in Arend's words, "forest energies through the night and into morning." Little orchestral motifs flash through the orchestral pillars of sound, equally well representing mental energies, light flashing through the trees, and life on the forest floor. But the most remarkable aspect of Arend's work here is not its representational quality, but its novel fusion of concert music and jazz. This appears in...
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