![]() ![]() ![]() Having written this work nearly 25 years ago, I now realize that it is also a snapshot of the city at a time when New York may have been at its most vibrant. The first performances took place in the first week of January 1996, with Leonard Slatkin conducting the Philharmonic. Toward the Splendid City is, in addition to being a portrait of New York, a tribute to its Philharmonic Orchestra. It was, needless to say, a relationship badly in need of resolution.Įventually, upon returning to Manhattan, I began to understand that the humanity and difficulty of New York were inseparable - and that if in the difficulties of urban life humanity is to be embraced, then the inconveniences must also be accepted. I was, however, not without a certain pang of nostalgia for my hometown, and as a result Toward the Splendid City was driven by my love-hate relationship with New York. Life was always complicated in the city and easier, it seemed, everywhere else. At the time I was nearing the end of a year-long residency with the Seattle Symphony and had serious second thoughts about returning to New York. Work on the piece began in Seattle in the spring of 1992 and was completed in mid-August of that year in Taos, New Mexico. ![]() ![]() While composed as a portrait of New York, the city in which I live, it was written almost entirely away from home. Toward the Splendid City was composed on commission from the New York Philharmonic. Horn in F I-II-III-IV (parts doubled, if possible) Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)Ĭost: Score and Parts - $145.00 | Score Only - $35.00 ach o! us mae his $ay !or$ar )lle $ith this limitless solitue, $ith the green an $hite silence o! trees an huge trailing plants an layers o! soil lai o$n over centuries, among hal!/!allen tree trunks $hich suenly appeare as !resh obstacles to bar our progress# 0e $ere in a aling an secret $orl o! nature $hich at the same time $as a gro$ing menace o! col, sno$ an persecution#. My speech is going to be a long journey, a trip that I have taken through regions that are istant an antipoean, but not !or that reason any less s imilar to the lanscape an the solitue in "caninavia# I re!er to the $ay in $hich my country stretches o$n to the e%treme "outh# "o remote are $e &hileans that our bounaries almost touch the "outh 'ole, recalling the geography o! "$een, $hose hea reaches the sno$y northern region o! this planet# Do$n there on those vast e%panses in my native country, $here I $as taken by events $hich have alreay !allen into oblivion, one has to cross, an I $as c ompelle to cross, the (nes to )n the !rontier o! my country $ith (rgentina# *reat !orests make these inaccessible areas like a tunnel through $hich our journey $as secret an !orbien, $ith only the !aintest signs to sho$ us the $ay# +here $ere no tracks an no paths, an I an my !our companions, riing on horseback, presse !or$ar on our tortuous $ay, avoiing the obstacles set by huge trees, impassable rivers, immense clis an esolate e%panses o! sno$, blinly seeking the -uarter in $hich my o$n liberty lay# +hose $ho $ere $ith me kne$ ho$ to make their $ay !or$ar bet$een the ense leaves o! the !orest, but to !eel sa!er they marke their route by slashing $ith their machetes here an there in the bark o! the great trees, leaving tracks $hich they $oul !ollo$ back $hen they ha le!t me alone $ith my estiny#. ![]()
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