Instrumentation:

cello, bassoon, oboe, flute

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Duration:

4 minutes

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Program Note:

Constellations was first conceptualized while I was at a composition program in New Hampshire. There was very little light pollution there, so I was able to see the stars in a way I hadn’t experienced them before. I spent many nights looking up at them gaining inspiration for this piece, in which I evoke the vastness of space with the cello drone in the beginning. The woodwinds paint a picture across the empty canvas of points of light scattered through the night sky. During the middle of the piece, the disorganized clusters of sound take shape into a soaring melodic section, like the constellations for which the piece is named. Eventually the music fades away as the stars are consumed by the daybreak.