This concert work is now available for an exclusive area premiere!
A three-movement action/adventure symphonic work for full orchestra conjuring tall ships, seafaring heroes, and pirates!
The first movement, entitled “Tall Ship Launches” starts with the ship’s confident and noble theme. Building on the motifs of other themes expanded in the other movements, the ship launches into the sea. This movement concludes with the mysterious and unsettling sea theme. The second movement, “The Battle” starts as a seafaring march in compound rhythms and low brass fanfare. The intensity builds into action music, angular octatonic harmonies, sword battles on deck, cannon fire, and ends in hopeless destruction. The last movement, entitled “The Return” begins in lament and loss. But just as all hope is lost, the Tall Ship emerges from the smoke and fire. The music follows it’s journey to safe harbor, and ultimately to its triumphant return.
Interested in premiering? Please get in touch with David from the Connect page.