Description
Two highly contrasting movements depict the battle for world dominance at the brink of the 3rd Millennium. The first
movement, ART of the STATE is a wild, viral journey at mm=164. In extreme contrast, the second movement depicts the
serenity of a Love Inviolate.
The piece utilizes an orchestration which has been ongoing in the STORMWORKS story, that of the Band of the 3rd Millennium.
MILLENNIUM was commissioned for the 1997 Internationale Festiche Musiktage Uster. Unlike most "storm" works,
the piece stops after its 2nd movement. Via motif and theme, it is connected back to THE FIRST & THE LAST
and forward to WAIT of the WORLD.
MILLENNIUM and THE FIRST & THE LAST combine to make a 5-movement work, but the movements can also be interchanged to create more flexibility in programming.
Please visit the Score and Score Notes for more detailed information.
This piece is from the STORMWORKS... Chapter TWO CD.
About STORMWORKS... Chapter TWO
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Carol played an instrument once banned by the Third Reich...
so we talked. Her parents had once known Freedom, then the
engulfing fury of the Nazis and the tumult of World War II. They endured the division of their country, the plight of the
Cold War and the oppression of the Communists.
Old and almost finished with a single Lifetime we can only try to imagine, the Wall fell. Once again Carol's parents
were thrust into a brave new world... of Freedom lost, now regained.
Four incredible Lifetimes later... yet lived in one solitary story in the great throng of Human evolution, Carol helped
to name this second chapter in the Musical Story called STORMWORKS. "Die Wende", she said. "The Change".
This CD and its quiet message is respectfully dedicated to Carol and to all those who have stood on the precipice of
disaster and turbulent upheaval... only to find that their spirit endured... that their Faith triumphed. Life is short.
May this Music provide for you a theme, a pat on the back... a reminder that as we move into the next Millennium and
beyond, that all of us, truly are.. brothers.
Godspeed!
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