Dream Overture

Waking up from a dream is the hardest part. What really happened? The very vivid dramatic landscape filled with characters is suddenly gone and it is no longer something that you believe in and live in. It quickly starts to fade and you have to fill in the gaps yourself, undoubtedly getting things mixed up.

This overture is a glimpse of that dreamworld that was lost. It hints at a larger story, hence the titling of an overture. This is a summary of a dream you cannot tell went on for 8 hours or 5 minutes.

In 11 minutes it tells a compact tale in a larger ternary form which has an introduction and coda. The main motifs are iterated in different variations all throughout. The piece opens with an introduction moving through haunting harmonies landing in A minor, setting up the main theme. Which is filled with sorrow and chromatic, but functional harmonies. This motive undergoes rhythmic transformation by the woodwinds and leads to a huge statement and a crescendo. And thus the journey has begun.

The ending of the piece hints that it might not have been such a pleasant dream at all, a heroic struggle with an undesired outcome perhaps? Upon awaking you now have to reconcile with a world where you are not the protagonist. The scoring is for standard double winds symphony orchestra with 2 percussion / 1 timpani, no wind auxiliaries.