Alex Shapiro, composer: Vista

Vista

(Violin and Electronic soundscape on CD).
Total duration ca. 8 minutes (2005)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2005 by violinist Antonio D'Andrea.
One movement work. 4 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Premiered on July 12, 2006 in Frosinone, Italy
by Antonio D'Andrea.

Audio clip performed by Antonio D'Andrea.

Also available as:

Evolve

(5-string electric viola and Electronic soundscape on CD).
Total duration ca. 8 minutes (2006)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Requested in 2006 by violist Martha Mooke.
One movement work. 4 pages, 8.5" x 11".

"Alex Shapiro's electronically enhanced 'Vista' is a spherical sound universe in whose mysterious ambience the violin conjures up the spirits of nature - meditative and full of reverence."

--------— Monika Köhler, Heilbronner Stimme, September 2007

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Listen to an audio clip of this piece
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Purchase this score Score and CD available from Activist Music for $25.00.

Vista, written for violinist Antonio D'Andrea, pairs the depths of electronically created soundscapes that swirl through the environment, with the beautiful purity of an unamplified violin that sings through the thick, sultry air.

We can see great distances with our hearing, and hear great emotion with our heart. Each day we rise, the landscape before us is a vista of possibility. It is up to us to hear the truth in all we are shown, and to act upon it with grace and love.