Details:

Duration: 13 mins
Instrumentation: classical guitar and Two Channel Fixed Media*
Premiere: Original Version: December 16, 2022 at WCNY Performance Studio in Syracuse, NY
Final Version: April 27, 2024 at Dewitt Community Church Dewitt, NY
Commission Info: Written for Ben Ellis.
This project was made possible with the funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.

Program Notes:

Written for my friend, Ben Ellis, the title comes from a letter that Beethoven wrote in response to a young aspiring pianist: “Do not only practice art, but get at the very heart of it… The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun”

This piece is about the elusive pursuit of those distant, guiding suns, both explicitly and metaphorically.

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