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Beyond Land and Ocean

Beyond Land and Ocean: Hope carries music on her wings

October 1, 2015 by Melodye Shore

I’m excited to share the small but personally meaningful role I played in Pacific Symphany’s eagerly anticipated Beyond Land and Ocean.

In creating this musical homage to Orange County, Composer-in-Residence Narong Prangcharoen drew inspiration from personal encounters with our region’s landscapes and people. He also invited local residents to submit artistic responses to two key questions: What makes Orange County home, and what  unites its people?

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Image courtesy of Pacific Symphony Orchestra

As the project moved from creative vision to musical composition (a process chronicled here), Prangcharoen harmonized his personal impressions with community members’ input, including mine. The resulting piece makes its world premiere at Orange County’s Segerstrom Concert Hall on Sunday, October 4th.

If you guessed that I wrote a piece about hummingbirds, you’d be right. My submission is featured on the OC in Unison project website, alongside a photograph of Hope. Want to see an excerpt? Click and scroll to the second story from the top.)

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Hope, that thing with feathers, is carrying music on her wings.

Want to know more about Hope and ‘my’ backyard hummingbird brood? Click here.

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