Double Concerto for piano, harp, and orchestra

PERUSAL SCORE

"As I was composing my Double Concerto for piano and harp, I was thinking about ways in which I could play with the traditional format of a concerto to find a fresh way of thinking about the drama inherent in this medium. On the large scale, I play with sections that repeat or return but not in the traditional ways. I am interested in how we perceive repeats—in many ways, without some sense of repetition, we cannot perceive form at all. But the sense of a return can either feel like a journey come full circle, or it can feel like a strangely recurring memory, or even something like déjà vu. I am interested in finding ways to evoke all these implications: their intersections and combinations and complications.Sonically, the piano and harp play with material that is quite resonant and often arpeggiated. I arrived at it via a game of expanding and contracting intervals, which, when set in motion express largely triadic harmonies, leading to one another in a variety of different ways to offer an unexpected though logical harmonic pathway through the piece."– Han Lash