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SHADOW TREE
Branches caressing a scalloped wall,
touching a lavander door.
An accent for the day..
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I’m sure you don’t remember me but I bought a print of Shadow Tree from you at Lake Tahoe a year ago. Of course, I love the painting a great deal and it’s hanging in a great place in the living room.
I am a classical composer, the music I write is twelve-tone and atonal. The imagery and title of the picture kept coming up in my mind and, when the opportunity arose last December, I started writing a new work for alto flute and guitar called Shadow Tree, an impromptu for two instruments.
The premiere of the musical version of Shadow Tree is now scheduled for a concert on July 23, 2004, in Oakland.
Thank you for the inspiration for this work. It’s one of my favorite pieces and I’m looking forward to the premiere in July. In the meantime, best wishes,
John Bilotta
Shadow Tree (2004)
by John Bilotta
Impromptu for Alto Flute & Guitar
Shadow Tree is an impromptu for alto flute and guitar. An accessible twelve-tone work, it evokes the atmosphere of a painting by Denis Minamora. In the painting, we see the brilliant white stucco wall of a Mediterranean home, a lavender door and window, and across these floats the shadow of a tree we cannot see, the shadow tree. |
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