Many if not most composers of film music have tried their hands at abstract orchestral music at one time or another. Even John Williams has offered a large group of concertos, a Fanfare for Michael Dukakis, and other orchestral works. In the booklet to this Avie release, composer Christopher Tyler Nickel makes this comment on his Symphony No. 2: "[O]ne can think of this music as consisting of mirrors between ideas that disturb yet entice at the same time. Each side of the reflection is in itself conceivably valid, but when ...
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Many if not most composers of film music have tried their hands at abstract orchestral music at one time or another. Even John Williams has offered a large group of concertos, a Fanfare for Michael Dukakis, and other orchestral works. In the booklet to this Avie release, composer Christopher Tyler Nickel makes this comment on his Symphony No. 2: "[O]ne can think of this music as consisting of mirrors between ideas that disturb yet entice at the same time. Each side of the reflection is in itself conceivably valid, but when facing each other friction and dissonance are created. The exquisitely alluring and the grotesque existing simultaneously. Perhaps another way to understand the symphony is as a meditation on the state of cognitive dissonance." This gives an idea of the overall structure of this work, which does not flag in momentum over its 53-minute length. It also suggests that the work shares a quality with those of other composers who have been mostly active in film music: it is episodic, and it...
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