The work "Binary" explores how the mathematical binary numeral system (0 and 1) can be applied to music, with its first movement built on the interval of the second.
Performer Biography
Chicago Pro Musica, the ensemble on this recording, was honored with the 1985 GRAMMY® Award for Best New Classical Artist, a unique distinction in Recording Academy history.
Composition History
The piece "Frescoes and Ash" was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2008 and premiered there in 2009.
Composition History
The work "Instruments of Revelation" was commissioned by Kathryne Pirtle and the Orion Ensemble in collaboration with choreographer Daniel Duell, artistic director of Ballet Chicago.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Victoria Bond's music for "Instruments of Revelation" is informed by the ambiguity of tarot card depictions, shifting between mysterious and solemn to cunning and dexterous.
Composer Biography
Victoria Bond, the composer, is the first woman to be awarded a Doctorate in orchestral conducting from The Juilliard School.
Compositional Technique
In "Leopold Bloom's Homecoming," Victoria Bond uses music to express the subtext of characters' unspoken emotions, particularly when the text is dry and factual.
