Hours of the Night Selections of concert of 11 commissions. This is live from my final recital at Stony Brook (sniff), what a great place with such great people. Hours of the Night consists of nine works I commissioned from friends and colleagues, one previously composed work and one of my own compositions. Each composer was asked to write a five-minute piece based on a particular hour between dusk and dawn for either violin and piano or solo violin, with or without electronics. I paired each composer with a particular hour based on my knowledge of his or her previous compositions.

6 pm Owl Light for solo violin by Gilda Lyons
7 pm Masa 'nnuur for solo violin by Kent Guvstavson
8 pm Unquiet Stillness for violin and piano by Hsiu Hsiu Chang
10 pm Rise for solo violin by Benjamin Robison
11 pm 11 o'clock p.m. for solo violin Ricardo Gallo
12 pm Midnight violin and piano by Joe Di Ponio
1 am Thrown for solo violin and tape by Andy Papadeas
2 am Moonlit Lake for violin and piano by Shane Fage
3 am Cloud of the Unknown for solo violin Phil Shuessler
4 am Eos(Aurora) for solo violin by Ellen Lindquist
5 am 5 a.m. for solo violin by Ray Anderson

I made no further requests regarding the nature of the pieces and the composers did not meet formally to discuss their work or the project. The resulting program is kaleidoscopic in nature and represents a broad range of compositional styles within contemporary concert music. While each piece treats the theme from an individual perspective, the thread of night leads to a common involvement with the subconscious. The entire set of works clearly develops a sound world where fragments, subtle implications, intimations and murmurs predominate over articulated thoughts and logical thematic development. A series of cross relationships between the works makes for an interesting and unified program with a well-defined structural arc.