Night Windows
(2007) for oboe and piano
Duration: ca 13'
Commissioned by the International Double Reed Society for Nicholas Daniel

World Premiere:  International Double Reed Society Conference 2009, Birmingham, UK

Composer's Note:

Walking down a darkened street it’s hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people’s lives. The imagination lingers…..

Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work – though reflecting something of the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings – are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments.

Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: Frenzy.

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