Program Notes: Night Sky

Night Sky is an aural representation of the journey to night time.  The journey is from the perspective of the moon.  The opening chords signal the sunset where the moon breaks through the horizon to start its ascent in the sky.  This is followed by twilight, the time where the sunlight has almost faded and the mysteries of the night awaken.  The ostinato that rises out of the mysteriousness symbolizes the rise of the moon as it marches forward in its ascent of the sky.  The themes and motives that appear around the ostinato represent other aspects of the night-time sky such as stars, meteors and birds.  The piece ends with the moon reaching the apex of its journey in the night sky.