1992 Night Passage Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant 1991 Lipstick (ballet) 1990 Hammer Music 1989 Fantasie of a Sudden Turtle Symphony No.1 Castles in the Air 1988 An Unavoidable Obsession Waves of Talya 1987 My Friend Mozart Ebullient Shadows Deep Flight 1986 Cross Scintillations Before Infrared < later   > earlier Arches (1994) First Performance June 1994 Present Music Kevin Stalheim, conductor Istanbul Modern Music Festival Istanbul, Turkey Instrumentation fl., cl., trpt., synth., vln., vlc. Duration 13' Listen Arches Program Notes Commissioned by Present Music with additional funding from the Tennessee Arts Council. In 1993 I wrote an orchestra piece titled Domes. Domes is important in the development of my music as with it I started to use more spiritual elements. It is built on a wash of very high string sounds slowly descending, again and again. It is religious in an abstract way--spiritual and perpetually longing. I was thinking about the shapes of domes in Rome and Istanbul. Since its premiere various arrangements have been performed by chamber orchestras and ensembles. After Domes, I wanted to compose a similar work written originally for a chamber group. With the encouragement of Kevin Stalheim, director of Present Music, came Arches. Most that I mentioned about Domes also describes Arches. It is built on a wash of string sounds and it is very spiritual. The descending high string sounds in Domes is transformed in Arches to be a perpetually descending four note figure in the middle register. The string sounds are enhanced by the synthesizer, which is the backbone of the ensemble. Trumpet has a very important role with its “Miles” mute.