Rencontres
Rencontres for orchestra is an expansion and exploration of thematic material from a string quartet piece by the same name. Rencontres plays with brevity, tension, and euphoria, evoking the feeling of chance encounters. The piece juxtaposes expressive ornamental gestures, and lush, resonate chords with disjunct rhythms, dissonant harmonies, and aggressive textures. These contrasting elements often find themselves giving into and growing out of each other, representing a constant state of uncertainty.
Educational module
Students engage with hip-hop, R&B, rap, and soul, examining sampling and how it can be used to generate new artistic forms – they will listen and reflect on popular music and the ways that it artistically borrows, reshapes, and recontextualizes melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic gestures through the art of sampling. Then students use their musicianship to “sample” each other’s creative musical gestures into a long form improvisation/composition.
Brittany J. Green's work is published by American Composers Orchestra via EarShot: Advancing Equity through Publishing & Repertoire Development, made possible through support from the Sphinx Organization. His work is commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and workshopped as part of ACO’s EarShot CoLABoratory, generously funded by TD Charitable Foundation.