Program

Con brio, the overture begins—strings pizzicato beneath a soft legato hum, the oboes weave a counterpoint in staccato whispers. Diminuendo fades into a pianissimo tremolo, the cellos sigh as the timpani beat a syncopated heartbeat, deep and resonant. Inner Voices, like a fugue, enter in canon—sopranos and altos in perfect fifths, the harmony swelling in crescendi of unresolved tension.

Andante con moto, brass fanfare bursts into a fortissimo flourish, cymbals clash in a dissonant echo, while violins glissando into a chromatic descent. Bassoons murmur sotto voce, the harp strums a mysterious arpeggio, as clarinets flutter in a flurry of sixteenth notes. Inner Voices, they chant, in a polyphonic cascade, voices entwining in a sonorous, spiraling cadence.

Modulation shifts like a key change, horns swell into a majestic fortissimo, only to fall into rubato as the timpani roll—piano, then pianissimo. The maestro holds the fermata, strings quivering on the edge of silence, before the chorus crescendos once more into a powerful, triumphant Inner Voices, resolving in a perfect cadence, where harmony dances in perpetual rallentando.

And thus, the echoes remain—diminuendo, pianissimo, leaving only the soft reverberation of a final chord, suspended in the ether.