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Daphne... an Imaginary Ballet (BMOP)

I go to Rome every year during my winter break from teaching. My favorite statue in the Galleria Borghese is Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne." It is amazingly alive and beautiful. When the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston asked me to write a work for string orchestra, I immediately thought of the fabulous "Apollon Musagète" by Stravinsky. Wouldn't it be fun to write a companion piece to the Stravinsky and call it Daphne? And since the Stravinsky Apollo is a ballet, my Daphne would be one as well, although an imaginary one.

Daphne is in three sections, or three acts. 

dank aan originele poster!